On October 25, 2016, Dr. Vindell Washington, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, visited St. Louis-area healthcare clinics and a long-term care nursing facility to see real-world health data sharing via the Carequality Interoperability Framework.
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By D’Arcy Gue – Most of the time, discussions about behavioral health EHR costs focus almost exclusively on the actual outlay for the system, implementation and ongoing maintenance. Maybe hardware is also included when the behavioral health hospital in question doesn’t have the requisite foundation.
By Abhinav Shashank – The digitization of healthcare was a much-needed change brought after years of hard work and effort. One might wonder how to justify the expenditure of 10 billion dollars in a span of five years just on digitization!
By Irv H. Lichtenwald – We will get to a point where EHRs are a great deal more functional and user friendly, where APIs link most if not all health IT platforms and clinical devices, where wearable technology enables remote monitoring of patient condition.
By Sarianne Gruber – Having been successful for decades maintaining a traditional a product-driven model, pharmaceutical companies are feeling their way toward a new business model: patient-centricity.
The AMA and the AHA have both issued statements on the steps taken by the ONC to strengthen the monitoring and testing of certified EHRs and supports ONC’s general framework laid out in its recently released final rule.
Nationwide Network to Provide All EHR Customers Free Access to National Record Locator Service; New Clinical Information Exchange Services Coming in 2017.
By Thomas Grove – Many EHR components were developed as early as 30 years ago, but it wasn’t until 2009 that the federal Meaningful Use incentive program precipitated wide-spread implementation of robust EHRs across healthcare.
By Lisa Gouin – The phrase “it’s a buyer’s market” is predominantly used in the real estate business, not healthcare. However, for many practices and healthcare organizations, it appears to be the perfect narrative for our changing healthcare landscape.