What’s Going On with Blockchain in Healthcare?
Keeping up with technologies changing how healthcare is delivered. Can a continuously growing chain of blocks using cryptography have applications in healthcare?
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EHR Optimization as a Bridge to Population Health Management
By Teri Hart – In the quest to meet value-based care, population health and quality reporting goals, healthcare leaders face an array of avenues and tactics.
Health IT Appointments and Hires
Latest announcements made from companies and organizations on the hiring and appointments include Citra Health Solutions, American Well, The Joint Commission, ShareSafe Health, and ClearDATA.
Current Reports and Surveys of Interest
Some informative reports about the current and future state of the health IT industry focusing on EHRs, hospitals and mobile technology, value based reimbursements, and professional compensation.
The Changing Role of Healthcare IT and Why It Requires Automation
By Derek Manky – For healthcare providers, patient experience and satisfaction are becoming increasingly important as consumers shift their approach to seeking medical care.
InterviewsNOW: Steve Matheson
As part of our on going series on InterviewsNOW, I spoke to Steve Matheson, VP Product and Sales at Bridgehead Software. The episode is now on-demand. Check it out and take a listen.
HIE Rundown – News from HIMSS18 3-09-18
Your personal health information is moving and being viewed to improve the quality of your healthcare and lower the costs. The job will not be complete until all health records are digital and interoperable. Here’s what’s happening to make that reality.
HealthBI’s Scott McFarland says Step Away From the Fax Machine — Harlow on Healthcare
By David Harlow – Scott McFarland is President of HealthBI, where he leads the organization’s health information technology platform team. The comapny enables real time coordination of value-based care delivery across providers by simplifying reporting by providers to payors and making resources available to providers to address patient needs.
Wearable Hospital Lab: NSF Awards $10M for Bioimaging
The National Science Foundation has awarded $10 million to a Rice University-led team that hopes to create wearable and point-of-care microscopes that use on-chip illumination and sensing to non-invasively aid in the diagnosis and monitoring of nearly 100 health conditions that today require a biopsy or blood test.