Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)

Let’s invest in an interoperable health data system that connects all providers, hospitals, nursing homes, insurance companies, state and local governments, public health and patients who need access to medical records.

Healthcare organizations are defining new ways to provide healthcare services—free of the burdens of on-premises infrastructure and yesterday’s workplace tools. Improving collaboration and communication is a critical component to successfully delivering proactive health, wellness and care in the new patient paradigm.

As the COVID-19 crisis forces hospitals to get creative, a retired Air Force Colonel offers some perspective on IT preparedness gained from previous emergency medical deployments.

With better ways to build and maintain strong patient relationships, providers can actually reduce costs while improving the quality of care. Ideally, patient engagement solutions enable caregivers to create a more integrated, continuous feedback loop, allowing them to stay connected with patients at home as well as within their facility's four walls.

With its three-pillar approach to modernization, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is  transforming its technology systems to create foundational change, says its chief modernization officer.

On the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic, UW has ramped up telemedicine capabilities and made immediate changes to its EHR to support COVID-19 care.

In a region of 10 million residents, the nonprofit Los Angeles Network for Enhanced Services is helping achieve care coordination, closing care gaps when providers are able to access data at the point of care, using a central interoperable platform.

The ability to gain access to the data through reusable APIs significantly improves developer productivity, enabling CIOs to achieve more with the same resources.

Dr Afzal Chaudhry, director of digital and CCIO at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, writes about the organisation's eHospital programme.

Forward-thinking healthcare organizations striving to prosper in an outcomes-based care environment may already be considering value sets. The problem is that not only do current value set offerings tend to be overwhelming for institutions to create and maintain; but if done improperly, value sets can actually negatively impact care management and quality measures, ultimately harming both outcomes and revenue. ​