By Pooja Babbrah – Healthcare delivery has been shifting over the past few years away from traditional sites of care, such as hospitals and clinics, to alternative sites of care, such as urgent care clinics and ambulatory surgical centers.
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By William van Doornik – Patient portals, mobile apps, secure text messaging, and email are increasing collaboration between providers and patients in new ways. Meaningful Use Stage 3 proposed requirements will likely be a driving force in determining how patient generated data (PGD) will be interpreted, used, and integrated into electronic health records (EHRs).
By Michael A Wittie & Simone Myrie – Data rests at the heart of health IT’s capacity to help improve care quality and health outcomes: standards-based, interoperable electronic systems make it possible to access, share, use and re-use information that was once locked in paper charts kept by individual providers.
Robert Rowley, MD Twitter: @RRowleyMD “Patient engagement” has certainly become a buzz-word in the realm of modern health IT. Medical practitioners as well as hospitals…