By Jonathan Catley – More and more, doctors and patients are relying on the internet to interact with each other. Using healthcare portals accessible on the web has revolutionized communication and substantially reduced the number of phone calls that are needed.
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By Jim Tate, EMR Advocate Meaningful Use Audit Expert Twitter: @JimTate, eMail: audits@emradvocate.com Kudos to those front runners who are focusing on “patient engagement (PE)”….
By Joe Condurso – The billions of dollars spent over the last four years on electronic health records (EHRs) have helped many healthcare organizations achieve Meaningful Use, but many would argue they have not improved operational efficiency, clinical quality or safety to the levels leaders expected.
By Adria Tomaszewski – Four great ideas were named first place winners of the Verizon Powerful Answers Award, a year-long global challenge to discover and help bring to market technology-based solutions with the potential to change our world.
By Jim Tate – I can’t help it. Whenever I hear the term “patient engagement” I think about sumo wrestling. I’m not sure why but maybe it is that I associate “engage” with combat. You know, “engage the enemy”. 2015 is set to be the “Year of Patient Engagement” in most people’s book.
By Beth Kelly – Now that the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show is over, the tech world is buzzing over the latest and greatest products that were debuted and displayed there by companies big and small. One trend that has only grown in recent years at CES is the presence of health technology at the show and it’s slowly becoming a part of mainstream consumers’ everyday life.
By Terry Edwards – The healthcare industry is known for being conservative and slow-moving. It can take years, or even decades, for changes to take hold. In fact, (as a side bar), my company recently executed an agreement with a system that took two years to get through legal.
By Owen Faris & Jeffrey Shuren – At the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), clinical trials are the foundation for our decisions to approve the most important medical devices—products that have the potential to save or sustain life, but that also present the greatest risk to patients.
One of the ways that HITECH Answers is different from other media sites is the sense of community. The thought leaders in our community are good about sharing their thought on the issues of today. Here are the top read and shared guest posts of January.