By Alex Tate – Choosing the right Electronic Health Record (EHR) is a crucial decision for any practice. It carries equivalent weight to making the right diagnosis of a patient. If you are a healthcare provider, consider your practice to be a patient, and an EHR the medicine for your practice. There are hundreds and thousands of EHRs available.
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By Sarianne Gruber – Hallmarked as a solution to improve healthcare quality, cost and safety, studies are showing health technology is up against a “digital divide” when it comes to patient engagement.
Predictive analytics can be used effectively to evaluate massive data generated within the healthcare industry. Predictive analytics is a process that uses machine learning to analyze data and make predictions.
By John Halamka MD – I’m in New York City visiting Oscar Health, on my continuing quest to determine how best to integrate digital platforms, patient-family engagement, and care coordination in preparation for MACRA/MIPS and the transformation from fee for service to alternative payment models.
By D’Arcy Gue – We healthcare writers spend a lot of time looking critically at federal compliance initiatives, especially the devils that may be in the details. Seriously, who even likes the unfortunate term “compliance?” Despite the hard knocks, HHS in fact has been an extraordinary trailblazer in modernizing American healthcare through information technology adoption.
By William A. Hyman – A popular form of Clinical Decision Support is the prediction of forthcoming complications. I have commented on reports of such systems before, and another example has been posted recently, in this case seeking to predict cardiovascular complications from CT scans.
The job will not be complete until all health records are digital and interoperable. Recently making news in health information exchange is Carequality, Kno2 & HealtHIE Nevada, FCC Connect2Health Task Force, Surescripts, Translational Software, Inc. and NetDirector.
By William Hersh – While the clinical informatics physician subspecialty has been an excellent way to recognize the value of the informatics profession, there are clearly many important other professionals in the informatics field who deserve the same professional recognition for their knowledge and skills in using data and information to improve health and healthcare.
There are new and improved products in healthcare being developed everyday. The following are announcements and launches of upgraded or new health products recently publicized by Premier Inc., Oticon, Prime Medical, Versco, VASCO Security Data and Doctor Globe.