Author: trident50
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Online and mobile apps designed for health and well-being are often short-lived
According to a doctoral thesis by Research Scientist Kirsikka Kaipainen from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, online and mobile applications for stress management and healthy eating reach a large number of users but their appeal tends to be short-lived. …read more
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Mapping a new future for GIS
Electronic health records are obviously critical tools for healthcare improvement, but they alone aren’t enough to truly transform patient and population health. As more and more IT investments go towards analytics tools to uncover trends and patterns in care delivery and wellness, one type of technology is starting to make inroads: geographic information systems. read…
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KLAS: Providers Report Internal Unauthorized Data Access as Top Security Threat
When it comes to security and privacy, healthcare providers say identity management and unauthorized data access by employees are their biggest concerns, according to a new report from the Orem, Utah-based KLAS. When it comes to security and privacy, healthcare providers say identity management and unauthorized data access by employees are their biggest concerns, according…
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EMR Market Continues Growth, Still Fragmented
The market for electronic medical records (EMRs) is set to continue its rapid growth over the next five years, according to a new report by New York City-based research firm, Kalorama Information. The market for electronic medical records (EMRs) is set to continue its rapid growth over the next five years, according to a new…
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Providers report internal unauthorized data access as number one security threat
Healthcare providers report that when it comes to security and privacy, identity management and unauthorized data access by employees are their biggest concerns. This according to the latest KLAS report, “Security and Privacy Perception 2014: High Stakes, Big Challenges.” KLAS spoke with 106 providers to find out where they felt the most at risk for…
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Most Interesting Vendor: Cerner — Moving Outside the Hospital’s Four Walls
Facing several different challenges—including a massive shift towards ambulatory care volume; the ongoing consolidation of the EHR; and above all, the juggernaut-like advance of the Verona, Wis.-based Epic Systems corporation in grabbing the lion’s share of new EHR contracts, Cerner has managed to stay toe-to-toe with Epic. When Cerner was founded 35 years ago by…
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Former ONC official: ‘Reboot’ HITECH
John Loonsk, former director of interoperability and standards at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and current chief medical information officer at CGI, would like to see a “reboot” of HITECH efforts. read more …read more
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$730 million available to states to test new care delivery models
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is offering a second round of funding to help states implement new healthcare delivery and payment models. read more …read more
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MIV Sidebar: Homeless Healthcare Provider Uses Greenway for Population Health
Tracking patient data through any kind of integrated system is hard enough; doing it when those patients are homeless only amplifies the problem. One organization that provides care to the homeless is using HCI’s Most Interesting Vendor Greenway Health’s EHR, to combat this problem for its population health initiative. Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless…
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Futurist: Tech revolution in healthcare requires systemic change
The proliferation of “fast, cheap and out-of-control” technologies will revolutionize healthcare … but only if the industry undergoes systemic change and values effectiveness over billing, says futurist Joe Flower. read more …read more