Electronic Health Records
The database will help EHR vendors incorporate health IT standards to smooth the exchange of patient information across care settings.
The retail giant is looking to protect a method for obtaining EHR data via the distributed ledger technology.
The event, on Aug. 13, will host app developers to build and innovate software that can help patients access and understand their health data, CMS Administrator Seema Verma said.
As CEO of the new company, which will be based in Boston, the public health expert will seek to "incubate better models of care for all," he says.
London-based Medicalchain is partnering with the health system to pilot an array of different distributed ledger projects.
Clinicians enter quality improvement data at the same time they enter charge capture data, enabling a more timely and robust quality effort.
The apps will be evaluated in 10 different primary and specialty care settings.
While there are challenges to fully utilizing FHIR, the specification will support workflows and provider experience between the organizations and multiple EHRs, Halamka said at HL7’s DevDays.
The HIMSS Big Data and Healthcare Analytics Forum showed that, even if healthcare still lags behind other industries in analytics prowess, it can (and probably will) make up a lot of ground in a short time.
A brief look at what hospitals should know about hundreds of patents tech giants have filed relative to health IT.