Tag: EHR interoperability

November 29, 2016

If community hospitals are a general barometer of health in the surrounding area, the emergency room is the canary in the coal mine. Viral outbreaks, increases in violence, loss of health insurance from local layoffs—all are social ills that make […]

November 21, 2016

This year, at RSNA 2016, radiologists are invited to think “Beyond Imaging” and “explore new ways to collaborate.” As I think beyond exciting new imaging capabilities, such as knife-edge scans that build the 3D image of an anatomical slide and […]

November 16, 2016

If the United States is going to improve cancer-related outcomes, it must overcome serious policy and technical barriers preventing the country from achieving a nationwide, interoperable health IT system. That’s among the findings of the President’s Cancer Panel, which issued […]

November 9, 2016

The American Medical Informatics Association has released guidance on laboratory interoperability that includes core public policy, principles and positions. The guidance comes from a November 8 presentation at the National Institutes of Health by Gil Alterovitz, director of the biomedical […]

October 25, 2016

In setting the final rule for the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services made a determined effort to simplify requirements that will revamp physician reimbursement to reflect quality and efficiency of care. For […]

October 11, 2016

Gartner Group has just released its 2016 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools. Here’s a look at the top 14 companies, and what each has to offer. The Leaders “Leaders in the data integration tool market are front-runners in […]

September 16, 2016

A little more than three years ago, two-hospital Nebraska Medicine implemented the Epic electronic health record system. It’s come a long way in a short time—it’s now is at Stage 7 of the HIMSS Analytics scale of EMR adoption with […]

August 12, 2016

A new report from health information management consultancy Just Associates examines the patient-matching landscape and identifies seven critical issues providers need to get right. 1.Capture data Data capture plays a tremendous role in the creation of duplicate patient information. Front-end […]

August 4, 2016

By now, most people have heard of blockchain, at least for its role as the Bitcoin ledger. As awareness of blockchain has grown, people have come to understand that it is a powerful technology in its own right. Blockchain is […]