The Five Rights of Interoperability
By Keith Boone – You can find many different versions of five rights in healthcare. What are the five rights for interoperability? I would argue for these five:
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Process Matters as Much as Technology, Especially When Treading New Ground
By Nick van Terheyden MD – It’s an exciting time to be a chief medical information officer, especially at a hospital or health system with forward-thinking leadership. New technologies are emerging that will help us make huge strides toward truly effective, precise and personalized medicine.
Building a Case for Medical Device Interoperability
By Bakul Patel – As Yoda might say: build a case for interoperability, we must. While we may not have yet realized the technological accomplishments of Yoda’s advanced world, today connectivity shows great promise for the future. From blood pressure to brain scans, today’s health care allows for the rapid transfer and use of information between and among different medical devices.
PwC Report Looks at Top Ten Health Industry Issues for 2016
PwC’s Health Research Institute new report highlights the top 10 issues expected to have the greatest impact on the industry this year and offers a look back at key trends that will help shape the coming year. So, what will 2016 bring us?
60 Years of Informatics
By William Hersh MD – Like many academic health science universities, my institution has undertaken a planning process around data science. In the process of figuring how to merge our various data-related silos, we tried to look at what other universities were doing.
EHNAC Announces New Accreditation Program for Cloud-Enabled Service Providers
EHNAC announced that it has finalized the criteria for Cloud-Enabled Accreditation Program along with the accreditation achievements of three cloud-computing vendors – FIGmd, Inc.; HealthcarePays Network, LLC; and MedicaSoft.
ZirMed to Launch Remit and Deposit Management Solution at HIMSS16
At HIMSS, ZirMed will be hosting several product demonstrations at booth #6647 focusing on population health (March 1 at 11am), revenue cycle management (March 1 at 2pm) and cash acceleration (March 2 at 11am).
NPWF Applauds Alignment of Quality Measures
The National Partnership for Women & Families, which has worked for 45 years to improve health for women and families, applauded the unprecedented work to align quality measurement across health care payers – including commercial plans, Medicare and Medicaid – for its promise to drive better care and better use of health care resources.
Time For a Patient Driven Health Information Economy?
By Robert Rowley MD – The recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine, “Time for a Patient-Driven Health Information Economy?” presents a good overview of the need for, and hurdles in achieving, a unified patient-centered data platform that can be accessed from everyone taking care of the patient.