interoperability
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The Year In HIE: Public, Private Sectors Prodded To Interoperability
From the start, 2013 brought some the most scrutiny ever devoted to the issue of interoperability, inside the world of healthcare and broadly in the public. Read More »
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This EHR Mess We’re In
Dr. Matthew Hahn blogs about the current state of today’s EHR’s and rightly points out many of the same reasons that I have identified in my previous posts...There are several other important concerns that have been left unanswered by our current Health IT offerings...The solution Dr. Hahn proposed is one that hinges on the hope that government will abandon MU (unlikely given this political climate), and create a whole new EHR development program based on a national competition and then for the government to subsidize the cost of that winner EHR for physicians to use...
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Thomas Verbeck: Sharing Medical Data Saves Lives
As a former chief information officer with a long career in information technology, my focus has intensified since the Department of Defense announced plans to spend $11 billion on a new EHR system - one that can seamlessly exchange health data for the country's nearly 10 million employees, military personnel, retirees and their families. But the DoD's plan will fail. That's because most of today's EHR systems, including the bidder finalists, are designed only to work within their own system. That allows them to charge physicians and hospitals outside their system for access to your data. DoD can demand a system that seamlessly connects health data with civilian hospitals - or the VA - but it has failed to do so.
Threat Matrix: Malware And Hacking Pose Dangers To Medical Devices
'We’re starting to attach medical devices to electronic health records, and they’re not secure.' Read More »
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Time For Hard HITECH Reboot
...The Government Accountability Office reports that there is a lack of strategy, prioritized actions, and milestones in HITECH. HIT interoperability is recognized as being limited at multiple levels. And resultantly, the benefits of HIT that depend on a combination of adoption, interoperability, and health information exchange as table stakes are elusive...
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To Enhance Patient Outcomes, Make Clinical Data Usable
If physicians have access to more clinical data, does this mean that patient outcomes are enhanced? Possibly, but only if providers can retrieve the most relevant information quickly, in a logical format, and at the point of care. Read More »
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Top 3 blockchain-based healthcare companies to watch in 2017
Game theory is the science of strategy. A branch of mathematics and economics that explores strategic situations across multiple stakeholders with different goals, whose actions can affect one another. Pioneering companies are changing the game with blockchain technologies. The new game of consumer interactions redefines transparency, immutability and security across industries. Much progress has been made with game theory. John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern’s 1944 book Game Theory and Economic Behavior outlined classic game theory...
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Top 5 Government Health IT Stories Of The Summer
Call it the season of interoperability. That was the biggest topic of the summer among Government Health IT readers...
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Top VA Tech Official Pushes Agile Development
The Veterans Affairs Department should engage in more agile development in order to make more responsive and innovative programs, according to the agency’s top technology official. Read More »
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TPP And Microtest Sign Up For MIG
More than 99% of UK GPs will be able to share patient data following the integration of TPP and Microtest with the Medical Interoperability Gateway. Read More »
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Transformation of Health System Needed to Improve Care and Reduce Costs
America's health care system has become too complex and costly to continue business as usual, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine. Read More »
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Two Articles About Openness For Healthcare IT
EHI have reported the openGPSoC meeting we held on Saturday - Funding needed for openGPSoC. Read More »
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Two Bills Aim To Expedite Benefits For Veterans
Citing frustration that veterans in New York wait on average 400 days for the start of benefits, Senator Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) is pushing two bills to speed things up. Read More »
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Two Competing Clinical Code Groups Team Up
Two not-for-profit standards-development organizations, producers of once-competing clinical codes, SNOMED-CT and LOINC, have reached a 10-year collaborative agreement to work together to “improve safety, functionality and interoperability for the rapidly growing number of clinicians who manage and exchange health data with electronic medical records.” Read More »
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U.S. Coast Guard Seeks Ideas for Its Own EHR System
The U.S. Coast Guard is looking for a solution to digitize its electronic health records that would be more interoperable with Defense and Veterans Affairs’ systems. The service is looking for a “computerized, integrated Electronic Health Record Acquisition” that would be more interoperable with both departments’ systems, according to a Request for Information published Sunday. The solution would replace the agency’s “manual paper health records,” and would need to protect personally identifiable information and personal health information, according to the RFI...
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