Interoperability
Adam Culbertson, HIMSS innovator-in-residence, looks at the possibilities tied to open-source development.
When every second counts, treating stroke patients in an ambulance setting with telemedicine means the median time between vehicle arrival to treatment with the clot-busting drug tPA is 31 minutes.
Dan Gottleib, of Boston Children's, and Verily's Josh Mandel talk about FHIR and SMART.
The Improving Access to Behavioral Health Information Technology Act now heads to the House, where there is similar bipartisan legislation.
Regulations are different internationally and electronic health record systems made in America are too pricey for the rest of the world.
Aneesh Chopra, former chief technical officer for the United States, urges developers to leverage open API ecosystems.
Inspector general says Defense Health Agency sites failed to consistently implement technical, physical and administrative protocols and may have violated HIPAA regulations in the process.
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.
The goal is to bring order to the fast-changing mobile health market, focusing on the availability, transparency and reliability of patient-generated health data.
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.