Interoperability
A glimpse inside the thinking that determined the department's surprising selection for its gigantic EHR modernization initiative.
ONC head Karen DeSalvo, MD, is slated to appear for a Senate committee hearing to determine whether it will grant her its nomination.
The National Institutes of Health clinics has achieved Stage 7, the highest level on the HIMSS Analytics Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model, which puts the organization in an elite category of EHR users.
Fair or not, Cerner's reputation in recent years has been one of increasing embrace of openness -- at least more open than Epic, with its perceived "garden-walled" ethos. That stated commitment to data liquidity probably served it well with DoD decision-makers.
Jonathan Weiner discusses the topics of his presentation from the 2015 Big Data & Healthcare Analytics Forum in NYC: the future of EHRs and other data sources for population health.
"Being adverse with physicians is something I never really expected to experience as a CMIO," said Brian Yeaman, MD, when asked about how the role has changed over the years.
Connected health infrastructure is emerging in healthcare as a binding agent for diverse devices and workflows, aiding diagnosis, monitoring and prevention, according to new analysis from Frost & Sullivan. But many providers don't even have a plan for connectivity.
In an article published online today in JAMIA, the journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, an AMIA task force takes on the thorny issues associated with the use of electronic medical record systems and offers recommendations for improvement.
A snapshot of what rose to the top of the social media buzz at the record-breaking HIMSS conference.
Sarah Corley, CMO of NextGen, talks about the benefits of interoperability certification through ConCert by HIMSS.