Interoperability
HIE
AHIMA, CHIME, HIMSS and others say lack of support for a nationwide patient identity strategy has stymied innovation, cost hospitals revenue and put patient safety at risk.
Electronic Health Records
EHRs in app stores, a new type of supply chain and interoperability’s need for new expertise are on the horizon.
Electronic Health Records
When every second counts, treating stroke patients in an ambulance setting with telemedicine means the median time between vehicle arrival to treatment with the clot-busting drug tPA is 31 minutes.
Interoperability
Dan Gottleib, of Boston Children's, and Verily's Josh Mandel talk about FHIR and SMART.
Electronic Health Records
The Improving Access to Behavioral Health Information Technology Act now heads to the House, where there is similar bipartisan legislation.
Workflow
Aneesh Chopra, former chief technical officer for the United States, urges developers to leverage open API ecosystems.
Electronic Health Records
Together, the companies will develop a cloud-based tool that can "aggregate and activate" consumer data from disparate sources: EHRs, registration, scheduling, billing and more.
Analytics
The goal is to bring order to the fast-changing mobile health market, focusing on the availability, transparency and reliability of patient-generated health data.
Analytics
Healthcare organizations that use multiple RCM systems have higher rates of denials and big difficulties gathering and normalizing data, according to a new HIMSS Analytics report.
HIE
The network also noted a big uptick in e-prescribing, with 77 percent of all prescriptions now delivered electronically, including a substantial increase in EPCS.