Now is the time to solve the industry’s identity crisis, and it can only be done through a combination of phishing-resistant and adaptive MFA, fine-grained access control, and standards-based interoperability.

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By strengthening the connection between dentists and physicians, we can enable real-time care coordination, ensure patients get follow-up when needed and help teams spot risk factors earlier.

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A combined bottom-up facility-level approach to integrated data and a top-down national-level effort for connected networks is needed to eliminate data silos and deliver frictionless care.

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Making EHRs work with and not against clinicians is possible. When EHRs take a human-centered design approach, collaborating closely with clinicians to optimize workflows, the EHR can stop being the focus of clinicians’ days, and instead support them as they provide care to patients

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Instead of EHR companies trying to build solutions in-house, collaborating with a patient engagement technology provider is the simplest and most cost-effective way for them to deliver the communication link demanded by today’s healthcare consumer.

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Full EHR interoperability and data standardization remain the holy grail: mysterious and elusive. So hospitals are employing different strategies to access a patient’s complete medical history.

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One reason clinicians struggle to find what they need in EHRs is because most legacy systems were not designed to provide a diagnostically holistic view for specific clinical conditions.

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Though the Covid-19 pandemic accelerated some aspects of health IT, it slowed others, including EHR replacements and back-office system upgrades. CIOs from some of the nation’s leading health systems shared not only the projects they put on hold, but also how they made those decisions and the challenges they faced when trying to reignite their efforts.

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The startup, which won a Pitch Perfect contest at MedCity INVEST Digital Health, offers a solution that integrates with EHRs to predict wait times in doctors’ offices and texts patients in real time to let them know what to expect. This virtual waiting room can help increase efficiency and improve patient experience.

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Though the total number of unique apps that integrate with major EHRs, like Epic and Cerner, increased from 600 at the end of 2019 to 734 in December 2020, growth in the number of apps that support the FHIR data exchange standard was stagnant.

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Apple has integrated with 700 providers for its health records app. But it faces a similar challenge to other health records projects that have failed in the past: patient uptake. 

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As a result of the partnership, clinicians using Epic will be able to order Foundation Medicine’s genomic profiling tests directly from the EHR and view results in the system, providing them with clinical decision support.

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Feinberg comes to Cerner from Google Health, which he has led since 2019. The move comes amid news reports that Google plans to dismantle its health division, though the company denies any such plans.

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The next step in the evolution of interoperability will involve examining data flows in digital healthcare, according to panelists at the American Telemedicine Association’s annual conference. This includes looking into how data sharing will support telehealth, remote patient monitoring and programs involving wearables.

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A new digital health company — spun out from Providence’s Digital Innovation Group — has raised $20 million in its first funding round. The company offers a platform that aims to help providers coordinate and manage digital care services.

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In a wide-ranging interview, UAB Health System CIO Joan Hicks shared some of the projects on her list for the year ahead, and how remote work has affected her team as well as IT hiring prospects in Alabama.

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Healthcare interoperability is evolving, but it is not keeping pace with industry needs. New federal and state policies, as well as advancements in technology, that focus on data management will be needed to push interoperability forward.

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EHRs have caused a few problems for healthcare but they have paved a path on which we can set out on the journey of healthcare transformation.  Without the existing EHR infrastructure, we’d not only have to map out a path but lay the road while we’re on it. 

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Covid-19 may have hampered investigations and led authorities to shift resources to more obvious frauds, attorneys said. But the pandemic also created new targets to investigate, including telemedicine and CARES Act funding.

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Meditech continues to hold the largest EMR market share in Canada, but it is losing customers — mostly to Epic, which has seen a rapid rise in popularity, a new KLAS report shows. The report delves into market share data and customer satisfaction insights to assess EMR vendors’ positions in the Canadian market.

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The technology provider for independent primary care practices plans to use the new funds to further invest in its core platform and add new solutions, such as billing and patient collections capabilities.

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Launching in 2021, the ONC’s Project US@ aims to enhance efforts to correctly link patients with their health data — a key part of interoperability — by standardizing the way patients’ mailing addresses are formatted.

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The Department of Health and Human Services put out a series of strategies to reduce the amount of time physicians spend on documentation on Monday. The report includes suggestions to standardize certain elements of EHRs, and bring federal reporting requirements up to date.

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Given all the news about interoperability, we couldn’t resist.

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While we live in a technologically advanced society, and technology’s proliferation in the healthcare industry is nothing new, surprisingly, many healthcare organizations still use paper-based data collection methods.

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[Sponsored] EHRs alone are insufficient to succeed in value-based care. That’s why hospitals and health systems are integrating an analytics platform.

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The company’s initial focus will be on neurological and inherited metabolic disorders.

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A death of a loved one shakes you to the core. In my case, I got a unique perspective on the healthcare system when my 44-year-old brother died two years after a Stage 4 cancer diagnosis.

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Looking ahead to next year, WellSheet has its first major pilot using Cerner with RWJBarnabas Health — a 10,000 doctor health system, starting in January.

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Facebook tycoon Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Dr. Priscilla Chan, a pediatrician, have made healthcare a top priority of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. But this time the couple’s investment in the Institute of Computational Health Sciences at UCSF is separate from the philanthropy.

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