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Congress and President Trump will pass a bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act but it will not institute major changes immediately, the former HHS Secretary said.
"Healthcare is late to the game in terms of user experience," said Lorraine Chapman, senior director of healthcare at Macadamian, a UX design and development firm, at HIMSS17 on Monday.
New temperature sensor is an expanded range device capable of measuring down to -200 Celsius.
Verato announced at HIMSS17 this week a partnership with RightPatient to together offer a cloud-based system that addresses the comprehensive challenge of patient identity – spanning every point of encounter and extending through every repository of pre-existing medical records and information, Verato said.
The partnership integrates RightPatient’s biometric patient identification platform with the Verato cloud-based patient matching platform to recognize a patient automatically at the moment of encounter and link that patient to all of his or her data distributed across systems. The partnership provides enterprises a single point of convergence for the full lifecycle of patient data, according to the vendors.
RightPatient’s biometric technology handles the front-end portion of the patient identity issue, which is how to accurately identify a patient and ensure retrieval of the correct medical record. RightPatient uses a biometrics and deep-learning engine that claims to eliminate errors at the point of identity capture, the vendor contended. RightPatient technology integrates with popular electronic health records systems including Epic, as well as with many patient portals, telehealth platforms and self-service applications, the vendor said.
Verato’s cloud-based matching handles the back-end portion of the patient identity issue, which is the linking of all pre-existing data to the correct identity. Verato’s technology is based on a type of matching called “referential matching” that uses a universal nationwide reference database as its answer key, the vendor explained. Referential matching can link identities across systems and between enterprises, even in the presence of major data differences, time differences, errors and thin data that prevent other matching technologies from matching, Verato said.
As part of the initial phase of the partnership, American Well partners and other providers and payers will have the opportunity to offer their services to Samsung consumers on their devices.
The vendor’s Exa Enterprise Imaging Platform offers a diagnostic-quality zero-footprint universal viewer for DICOM and non-DICOM images.
The acquisition of Predixion Healthcare is a sign that the predictive analytics market is consolidating.
It takes negotiation, some awareness and sometimes a lot of gumption.
During a packed ONC Town Hall, officials report progress on EHR safety, precision medicine, interoperability, 21st Century Cures and more.
Joel Diamond says genomic data needs to be integrated into clinical workflows before its potential can be realized.