Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)

Tech titans set their sights on interoperability, Judy Faulkner shared advice for women in health IT and big data breaches continued – revisit those stories and others in our look back at the past 12 months.

The chair of the House VA Subcommittee on Technology Modernization wants the agency to answer some questions with regard to the $624 million Medical Appointment Scheduling System contract.

Turkey has made tremendous strides in digitizing healthcare and touts more than 160 hospitals validated at Stage 6 of EMRAM. HIMSS TV spoke with Aniventi co-founder Nejat Unsal about how his company is supporting the country’s ongoing mission.

Andy Payne, PHR Subject Matter Expert, NHS Digital, says that using digital tools helps free up clinic time, makes it easier for patients to access care while improving patient outcomes.

Medal CEO Lonnie Rae Kurlander aims to bring machine learning-enabled simplicity to ever-growing volumes of complex health information.

The report, tabled by the Queensland Audit Office (QAO), highlighted the benefits of the digital hospital program in Queensland, while making recommendations to improve governance of the future rollout.

In addition to EHRs and HIEs, faxes and paper are still common ways to share medical data.

Properly configured EHRs are a start. From there, top leadership can employ several tactics to address the difficult and complex challenge.

Executives from Epic, Allscripts, athenahealth, eClinicalWorks and Greenway reveal what business decision makers should expect from their forthcoming software and cloud-based services.

Prime Care Family Practice COO Amar Shah says the platform helps it address quality, cost and overutilization.