Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)
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.
One new policy deems drug shortages an urgent public health crisis and seeks to have manufacturing sites become critical infrastructure.
NHS unit is switching from Meditech to deploy what it describes as a EPR, rather than an electronic health record.
Robert Wachter, MD, says healthcare is entering a new phase of its digital transformation now that EHR adoption is widespread.
Giovanni Delgrossi, chief information officer at Italy's Vimercate Hospital, explains how the system used the EMRAM model to streamline operations and ultimately secured buy-in from its physicians and nurses.
Ilker Köse, technology transfer office director at Istanbul Medipol University, says the motivation to adopt EMRAM standards created the momentum needed to transform hospital systems.