Key EMR solution executives and healthcare provider organizations convened at the KLAS Keystone Summit in Midway, Utah, to help solve the key interoperability challenges facing the industry.
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By Keith Boone – Definitions of interoperability surround us, but all the attention in the world to definitions make very little difference in the end. I have a theory that people will believe two systems are interoperable when they can observe that the systems work together in simple ways with little to no effort, and in complex ways with some effort.
The Healthcare Administrative Technology Association (HATA) announces that it will hold its Annual Membership Meeting on Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Chicago O’Hare’s Admirals Club.
With one click of the mouse, Franciscan Alliance physicians can seamlessly access the Indiana Health Information Exchange’s CareWeb application from within their Epic EHR.This single sign-on process provides physicians with the most accurate, comprehensive, and up-to-date information from all IHIE participants within their existing workflows.
By Mony Weschler – Innovation in healthcare is critical; it helps enhance quality patient care and improves workflow drastically. However, to encourage the innovation we need in healthcare, a cultural change across the industry is required. Collaborations across the healthcare industry need to occur to improve current processes, and to ensure the patient is the priority in everything we do.
By Edgar Wilson – As the saying goes, what got us here won’t keep us here. Politicians, providers, and programmers across the country by now know (or should) that bringing on an enterprise EHR system does not transform care delivery or clinical operations overnight.
By John Halamka MD – In many previous posts, I’ve written about the importance of enabling infrastructure to accelerate interoperability. The standards are not the rate limiting step, but the lack of a provider directory, patient identifier, and consent registry are.
By Erica Galvez – Recent ONC analyses from a nationwide survey of non-federal acute care hospitals conducted by the American Hospital Association (AHA) highlight the near universal adoption of EHRs by hospitals and significant increases in hospitals’ electronically exchanging health information with outside providers compared to past years.
By Edgar Wilson – Discussions of the benefits, potential, and future of EHRs trumpet the advance of personalized healthcare built on the intersection of patient history and genetic data. President Obama has advanced a program to integrate genomics data into both research and treatment, known as the Precision Medicine Initiative.