Category: HIE
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Big Data Analytics In Healthcare
There are a number of questions surrounding big data. Some healthcare providers argue the use of it is the key to achieving a sustainable competitive advantage and optimizing clinical outcomes. Others wonder if big data carries more risk than reward. But healthcare organizations all must find new approaches to analytics to fully harness the available…
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Remote Monitoring Helps Achieve Healthcare’s Triple Aim
The healthcare industry is in the midst of a transition from ‘healthcare’ to ‘health optimization’ and remote monitoring technology will play a crucial role. By Julie Carr, RN, BSN, Director, Clinical Operations, Healthsense, Inc. …read more
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Achieving Innovation’s Full Potential
We’ve seen the evolution from film to digital x-ray; from beepers to texts and images on smartphones; and from hard journals for research to electronic medical records searching on iPads. These innovations have greatly improved the speed of diagnosis, enabling faster treatment and better patient care. What’s next? By Steve Deaton, VP, Viztek …read more
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Leveraging Mobile To Bring Caregivers Back To The Patient Bedside
By Mike Lanciloti, VP, product management, Spectralink On any given day, nurses are caregivers, psychiatrists, comforters, teachers, and friends. In fact, the critically important role nurses play in the patient recovery process is difficult to define – and hard to imagine doing without. It is one of the hardest jobs in the world. And it’s…
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How Doctors Need EHRs To Evolve
By Linda M. Girgis, MD, FAAFP As medical records go digital, many end users (i.e. doctors) are growing increasingly frustrated with the state of their electronic health record (EHR) system. Various polls have shown a majority of doctors find EHRs slow them down and don’t easily adapt to their workflow, and they also feel EHR…
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e-MDs is First EHR to Connect to Kansas Infectious Disease Registry
e-MDs and Kansas Health Information Network Inc. (KHIN), a health information exchange organization (HIO), today announced that e-MDs’ electronic health records technology is the first to exchange provider data directly with the newly-created Kansas infectious disease registry. This new capability assists the 31 Kansas healthcare organizations using e-MDs’ EHR with meeting their Meaningful Use 2…
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Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island – Bellows, Sheri
First Name: Sheri Last Name: Bellows Organization: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island Work Email: sheri.bellows@bcbsri.org Pledge Type: Data Holder …read more
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Health IT Enabled Quality Improvement: A Vision for Better Health and Health Care
Today we are pleased to publish Health IT Enabled Quality Improvement: A Vision to Achieve Better Health and Health Care. This paper describes ONC’s vision for advancing the use of health IT to support transformational improvement in health care quality and value. It invites health IT stakeholders – clinicians, consumers, hospitals, public health, technology developers,…
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State Health IT Progress: Glass Half Empty or Half Full?
State health IT execs describe their efforts to modernize MMIS using service-oriented architecture to break down silos between agencies. But others talked about the uphill battle in getting agencies to work through cultural issues to share data. I just returned from a great summit meeting of state government health IT leaders from around the country.…
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ONC’s Doug Fridsma Pushes the Envelope on Interoperability
At HIMSS 2014, Doug Fridsma, M.D., Ph.D., chief science officer and director of the office of science and technology in ONC, presented on the national goals and prioritiesconcerning interoperability. At the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference in Orlando, Fla., Doug Fridsma, M.D., Ph.D., chief science officer and director of the office…