Category: Analytics

Healthcare executives have high expectations for the potential of big data, with a talent shortage and lack of resources being the biggest barriers to use, according to a new survey from the Society of Actuaries. read more …read more

Cerner, the Kansas City-based electronic health record (EHR) vendor, is teaming with Cambridge, Mass.-based Claritas Genomics, a clinical genetic diagnostic testing company, to integrate personalized medicine technology into clinical practice. Cerner, the Kansas City-based electronic health record (EHR) vendor, is teaming with Cambridge, Mass.-based Claritas Genomics, a clinical genetic diagnostic testing company, to integrate personalized…

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act is “misunderstood, misapplied and over-applied” to the point of being burdensome to the sharing of patient information for improved care, according to a report published this week by the Bipartisan Policy Center. read more …read more

A group of researchers have completed a study which found new links between patients’ genetic profile and specific diseases by mining EMR data, reports a story in iHealthBeat. The research, which was conducted by the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics Network, a consortium of medical research institutions including the Mayo Clinic and Vanderbilt University School…

The debate whether technology has made our jobs easier or not has no clear-cut winner. This is particularly evident in healthcare where the jury is still out as to whether IT advances are helping practices or slowing them down with complicated processes. Much of the confusion centers on billing, a common link between patients, providers,…

When front line clinicians confront a clinical mishap or unsafe condition in EHR-enabled healthcare settings (such as a medication error or a missed diagnosis) they may not connect the clinical event with how EHR use could have helped prevent it, how misuse or failure to use EHR functionality as intended contributed to the problem, or…

The Privacy & Security Tiger Team recommended that ONC work on pilot projects that would allow patients to request a report about external disclosures from an EHR. But the recommendation stresses that any potential solutions must make it technically feasible for this type of report generation to be automated, so it is not a huge…

The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI), the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC), and DirectTrust.org are partnering together to further nationwide direct messaging and health information exchange (HIE), the organizations announced this week. The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI), the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC), and DirectTrust.org are partnering together to further…