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: 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: Managed Healthcare Executive Healthcare reform, emerging payment models that reward quality versus volume, and technology are driving providers toward a trend that payers have embraced for years: population health management (PHM), according to a recent KPMG survey. In addition, provider organizations are realizing that effective PHM...
Source: PRNewsWire.com Date: 8/13/15 Electronic health record (EHR) refers to the electronic version of medical charts and other documents that health workers maintain for their patients. In the past two decades, the healthcare industry has witnessed a rapid adoption of EHR systems across healthcare facilities from medium...