FHA Works to Develop a Strategic Implementation Guide
The Federal Health Architecture (FHA) has been working closely with the Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT (ONC) and other federal partners to…
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The Healthcare Delivery Pyramid
By Justin Barnes – There is talk in the medical industry of helping providers practice at the maximum of their licensure. One reason for this is that we don’t have enough primary care physicians, and, in part, can address this gap with physician assistants, nurse practitioners, registered nurses, and a myriad of non-traditional team members like pharmacists and health coaches.
EHR Patient Outcomes Just Got Real
By Rich Rutherford – Aligning incentive and quality programs with existing Accountable Care Organization (ACO) agreements is essential to improving patient outcomes and confidently negotiating private payer risk-based contracts. I started installing EHRs in 1999 with expected benefits of prescription legibility and reduced chart pulls.
5 Significant Health IT Trends for 2015
By Justin Barnes – While MU, EHR interoperability, ICD-10 readiness, patient safety and mobile health will all continue to trend upwards with great importance, the five areas that I strategically see growing rapidly in 2015 are focused on the consumerism of healthcare, personalization of medicine, consumer-facing mobile strategies, advancements in health information interoperability including consumer-directed data exchange and finally, innovation focused on tele-health and virtual care.
CHIME, iHT2 Announce Regional LEAD Program for 2015
Showcasing a mix of distinguished panel discussions, case studies and small group breakout sessions, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) is pleased to announce its Leadership Education and Development (LEAD) Forum series in collaboration with iHT2 for 2015.
The Conundrum of Structured vs. Unstructured Data
By William Hersh – As in all complex endeavors, the push for a healthcare system underpinned by structured and interoperable electronic health record (EHR) data has turned out to be more complicated than we might have anticipated when acceleration of EHR adoption was begun about a decade ago.
The athenahealth and BIDMC Collaboration
By John Halamka – BIDMC has self-developed its core clinical information systems for many years. We certified all our applications for the 2011 and 2014 ONC criteria, attesting to Meaningful Use Stage 1 and 2 in every appropriate year. BIDMC has hundreds of person-years invested in our web-based, cloud-hosted in-patient and out-patient applications.
Kids Five Years after the Recession: Smart Policies, Better Lives
The bipartisan children’s advocacy organization First Focus and PolicyLab at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia released a new analysis showing that, five years after its technical end, the recession of the mid-2000s continues to impact America’s children
Smart Ways to Manage Health Need Smart Regulation
By Bakul Patel & Jeffrey Shuren – Engaged patients! Quantified self! Lifelogging! These buzzwords describe an exciting technology-based, patient-centered approach to living healthier. The myriad of systems that record, share, and use personal and health data have become a significant help for many of us by putting information at our fingertips to use when and where we think it might help promote a healthy lifestyle. The ultimate goal of these products is to improve our quality of life.