Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)

Vendors offer their perspective on the opportunities and challenges for healthcare data exchange in the year ahead.

Healthcare information technology will be the focus of investors in 2020, with interest in the pharmaceutical and biotech sector, home and hospice care and managed care companies also high on the list, according to a KPMG report including survey results from 333 investment professionals.

Professional Records Standards Body Chair Maureen Baker discusses the work of the PRSB and its collaboration with providers of health and social care in the UK and abroad.

The 2020-2025 plan aligns with the 21st Century Cures Act's interoperability and patient access provisions.

Masimo, the maker of monitoring technologies and connectivity tools for hospitals, announced this week that it will acquire the connected care assets of NantHealth for $47.

Quorum Health achieved many financial milestones from a successful spinoff operation, and its integration of the athenahealth EHR across the org also helped get the Chronic Care Management program to 60,000 Medicare patients.

“Our goal is to make all of a patient’s health record available in our clinical portal so that when a clinician brings up a patient’s record, they can have all the information they need,” said S. Wissmann, director of information management, Mater.

The trust joins a number of organisations in the Greater Manchester area working with Allscripts.

FHIR-based clinical data retrieval and an API to more easily share data will help payers, pharma and providers with forthcoming 21st Century Cures rules, the company says.

The new technology enabled Catalyst Health Network to achieve all of its care management goals and create a fully connected information highway, its president says.