By: Venky Ananth Source: LiveMint.com One of the tools that can leverage AI to free up more of healthcare providers’ time to offer care to more patients, is the electronic healthcare record (EMR). Stacy, who has been struggling with chronic arm pain, is reluctant to meet her physician...
Source: MarketWatch.com Key Trends and Analysis of the Electronic Medical Records Market: Major factors driving growth of the electronic medical records market include digital transformation in the healthcare IT sector and increasing patients as well as physician's needs for better healthcare, which can be met by easy...
Source: HealthDataManagement.com The adoption of HL7’s emerging Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources standard for sharing electronic medical information has reached critical mass. That’s the assessment of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. “New analysis shows that the United States might be at a turning point...
Source: ModernHealthcare.com By: Rachel Z. Arndt The word "patient" is rapidly fading from the healthcare lexicon. Nowadays, healthcare executives sound like those from any other industry, talking about "consumers" or even "customers." With consumer-friendly companies like Apple and Amazon nipping at the heels of traditional healthcare organizations, not...
HIMSS18 takeaway: Big Energy for Innovation, but Many Old Hurdles Still Standing By: Mike Miliard Source: HealthcareITNews.com The concept of a "post-EHR" era is one that's been explored – on this website, at least – since the beginning of 2014, if not earlier. Four years later, an action-packed...
By: Laurie Beaver Source: BusinessInsider.com Date: Jan. 25, 2018 An update to Apple’s iOS, announced Wednesday, included a beta version of its Health app that will allow iPhone users to store and share their medical records from a range of healthcare systems in the US. So far, 12 hospitals and...
By Jamie Wells, M.D. Date: November 27, 2017 Source: www.acsh.org Here’s a novel approach, appreciate and value the physicians in actual practice and watch job satisfaction soar. But, since such a long game strategy for repairing an ever fragmenting healthcare system is not the current default position, don’t be...
By: Rachel Z. Arndt Source: ModernHealthcare.com The American Medical Association is throwing its hat into the data and interoperability game with the launch of the Integrated Health Model Initiative, which will develop a framework for the industry to collect, organize and share health data."This collective effort will...
By: Tom Sullivan Source: HealthCareITNews.com Date: July 17, 2017 We all say them, even more frequently than we might proudly admit and, then just like that, it’s hard not to to sicken of these same phrases that were once exciting, maybe even fun to mutter. They’re buzzwords, skin-crawling...
Source: HealthDataManagement.com By: Greg Sladobkin The Department of Veterans Affairs is weighing all options as the agency decides the future of its legacy electronic health record system, including the possibility of replacing the decades-old Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) with a commercial EHR. “We need...