Health Innovation

High Performance Referral Management vs EHRs

By Jeremy Guttman – A common misconception is that an electronic health record (EHR) can close referral loops and provide high-performance referral management for primary care practices. However, not long after EHRs were implemented, users quickly realized that EHRs alone are not able to establish a pipeline that allows data to flow between PCPs and specialists from different organizations.


Do We Need More or Less Healthcare IT Regulation and Legislation?

By John Halamka – “Do we need more or less healthcare IT regulation and legislation” is that we need the right amount of the right regulations/legislation. Sometimes when clinicians prescribe medication, although it does therapeutic good, it creates side effects which need to be addressed by changing a dose or by adding additional medications.



HIE Rundown 7-29-16

The job will not be complete until all health records are digital and interoperable. Recently making news in health information exchange is New York eHealth Collaborative, Inovalon, athenahealth, DirectTrust and Document Storage Systems, Inc.


HHS is Open

By Susannah Fox – On his first day in office, President Obama announced administration policies to make government serve the American people better through greater transparency, collaboration, and participation. Known as the federal government’s Open Government Initiative, each agency has developed a plan every other year outlining steps.



New Health Products – there’s an app for that!

From accessing medial records from your iphone, to a wearable, real-time wellness app that can diagnose what stresses you out, here are the latest healthcare apps hitting the internet stores for patients and doctors including apps from Apple, Spire, BBMK Technologies and Royal Solutions Group.