Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)

Entrepreneurs and upstarts in the show floor nooks and crannies are a great place to find new ideas, insights and technologies that foretell coming trends. 

The EHR vendor’s chief executive weighs in on the industry's most exciting opportunities to improve care ahead of HIMSS17 and into the future.

"Data is the currency of the next century," says Brian Ahier. And nowhere are health data and data management processes discussed, analyzed and examined more than at the HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition.

(SPONSORED) Prescription 3: Managing Complex Health IT Environments More Simply. With healthcare organizations managing hundreds of applications on myriad platforms within their enterprise, streamlining IT management is critical.

(SPONSORED) Prescription 2: Leveraging Automation to Resume Mission-Critical Applications. Following a disaster, healthcare organizations need to minimize disruption to patient care delivery by ensuring that mission-critical systems get up and running soon after a disaster.

Atop the list: Emerging EHR functionality, cybersecurity, analytics and, of course, the next big thing.

(SPONSORED) Prescription 1: Continuous Availability of All Applications Across the Care Continuum. Develop a disaster recovery plan that enables clinicians to provide patient care without disruption.

A former CIO gets a close up look of the assessment side

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John Halamka, MD, served the Bush administration for four years and the Obama administration for six. Change in Washington happens incrementally, he says: There is always an evolution, not a revolution, regardless of speechmaking hyperbole.