Mike Miliard
AHIMA, CHIME, HIMSS and others say lack of support for a nationwide patient identity strategy has stymied innovation, cost hospitals revenue and put patient safety at risk.
The Improving Access to Behavioral Health Information Technology Act now heads to the House, where there is similar bipartisan legislation.
The math is simple, says Anthony Chang, MD: machine intelligence + human intelligence = medical intelligence.
Together, the companies will develop a cloud-based tool that can "aggregate and activate" consumer data from disparate sources: EHRs, registration, scheduling, billing and more.
Healthcare organizations that use multiple RCM systems have higher rates of denials and big difficulties gathering and normalizing data, according to a new HIMSS Analytics report.
A new public-private advisory council will work to build out the information exchange, which providers used to access health data for patients displaced by the California wildfires.
To really work to its fullest potential, the technology must be used enterprise-wide, according to the report, which took a close look at customers with highest adoption levels.
Douglas Reding, MD, chief medical officer at Ascension Wisconsin, explains the key tactics needed to achieve the value prospect of personalized care.
Cerner CFO Mark Marc Naughton says the electronic health record vendor has broad support for the modernization project and will be ready to go once the contract is signed.
Big opportunities, and challenges, ahead for the distributed ledger, from EHRs to supply chain and security.