Interoperability

FirstNet, the first nationwide public safety wireless broadband network, is helping emergency department clinicians share information in near real time to provide better care for patients.

Experts say emerging tools could become as important to precision medicine as HTML is to the web.

FirstNet, the first nationwide public safety wireless broadband network, was established via congressional legislation for much-needed law enforcement, fire and emergency medical personnel communications.

To achieve gains in quality, hospitals need to strategically pace the rollout of new features and functionality.

Hospitals ignoring blockchain risk being left behind, IT firms say, and they share advice about getting work underway.

Industry groups like easier quality reporting and advance applications of telehealth, but some say docs shouldn't have to make expensive EHR upgrades for 2019.

Matt Menning, data products director at the American Medical Association, speaks about an initiative at the industry group to create a framework for physicians to capture and organize data to drive outcomes.

Shivom has created what it calls a Unique Global Genome ID, designed to allow providers and researchers to more easily work with precision data and give patients ownership of their genomic information.

Tech initiative enables hospitals across the Carolinas to build apps that merge patient records.

While Intel, Beth Israel Deaconess and others threw their support behind the CMS proposed plan to make interoperability mandatory for Medicaid and Medicare billing, AHA and other stakeholders slammed the proposal as “premature” and “duplicative.”