By Jonathan Hart – The healthcare sector has always existed at the intersection of innovation and complex problems. It’s an industry that relies on riding the newest waves of digital transformation to continue providing the best possible outcomes for patients and providers alike.
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By Laura Breedlove – Healthcare data is a powerful tool that can reveal critical trends across multiple demographics. With more use of EHRs, data has become more readily available across health systems including lab tests, treatments, diagnoses, genetics, environment and lifestyle.
By Kim Commito – With urgent care clinics becoming the go-to sites for on-demand healthcare in the U.S., patient engagement technology has become necessary for clinics to succeed in the highly concentrated, competitive marketplace. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated patient expectations and demands for…
By Curtis Bauer – Two consumer financial trends – a growing inclination towards “buy now, pay later” options and a desire by millennials to pay down debt – have combined to highlight the importance of providers’ offering digital patient engagement and payment options that deliver price transparency.
By Devin Partida – Data offers many opportunities for improvement to modern industry, especially in the health care and medical fields. Throughout the pandemic, geospatial data has been instrumental in tracking the illness, its spread and its general impact.
The recent news of Oracle’s vision of a national healthcare database of course made us all take notice. But as the dust is settling what does the rest of the industry think about this? We reached out to see just what the buzz is.
By David Burda – With a little extra effort, you always can find something revealing in surveys of healthcare executives, even when a multi-billion dollar, vertically integrated incumbent healthcare company sponsors the survey.
By Liz Buckle – Recently, CommonWell hosted our first FHIR Connectathon under the working premise that the best way to figure out what we don’t know is to get our hands dirty and start testing. Participants included 11 of our Service Adopters: athenahealth, Cancer Insights, Cerner, Health Gorilla, Inovalon, MEDHOST, MEDITECH, Oprable, Patientory, Seqster and WellSky.
By Jon-Michael Smith – Hospitals generate an enormous amount of data daily, which can be turned into actionable insights that can better operations, save costs and overall produce better patient outcomes. There are several types of data hospitals should be tracking.