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4 Challenges of Establishing EHR Interoperability

by Fred Pennic 10/02/2015 1 Comment

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By the year 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services wants interoperability between disparate electronic health records systems (EHRs) to be a common capability. This would allow patient data to be shared among authorized practitioners more seamlessly. But how do patients feel about this? According to a recent survey conducted by Software Advice, 46 percent of patients want their doctors to directly exchange the health records, and fewer (21 percent) favor in-person delivery.
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WEDI, Nate Partner on Virtual Clipboard to Support Interoperability

by Fred Pennic 09/28/2015 Leave a Comment

WEDI Survey Reveals ICD-10 Delay Negatively Impacted Provider Readiness

The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI), a nonprofit authority on the use of health IT to create efficiencies in healthcare information exchange, and the National Association for Trusted Exchange (NATE), a nonprofit authority in consumer-mediated electronic health information exchange, announced a partnership to cooperate on Phase II of the Virtual Clipboard Initiative and to advance research concerning healthcare interoperability. Virtual Clipboard Initiative Overview Built
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The Kabuki Dance Of “Blocking Data” In Healthcare

by Our Thought Leaders 04/13/2015 4 Comments

The Kabuki Dance Of "Blocking Data" In Healthcare

The lack of data interoperability in healthcare continues to plague and haunt the entire industry. Much of the challenge falls squarely in the realm of Electronic Health Record (EHR) software, but EHR software is by no means the only category where this challenge is directly affecting patient lives. I ‒ along with countless others ‒ have written extensively about this topic. Last year I did a 5‒part series on just "interoperability" which I published on Forbes. One piece highlighted the
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What If Air Travel Worked Like Healthcare?

by Dr. Donald Voltz 04/09/2015 4 Comments

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  HIT consultants will have their work cut out for them if the healthcare industry gets serious about solving EHR’s lack of interoperability.  Billions of dollars would be spent building the same easy to use applications consumers enjoy in other industries like banking and travel.   Imagine if banks did not have applications to support mortgage processing! Everything has to be done via a manual process, moving the loan through different verifications and approvals through human
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Like Scorpions, Closed EHR Systems Cause Paralysis

by Edmund Billings MD 10/30/2014 Leave a Comment

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Take a step back from the challenges that surround health information technology (HIT) interoperability and you will recognize that market forces and a desperately fragmented health care system make hospitals and vendors act the way we do. It calls to mind the fable of the scorpion and the frog, which is worth revisiting. Wanting to cross a river, a scorpion spies a frog in the water and asks for a ride to the other side. Naturally afraid of being stung and killed, the frog hesitates, but is
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The Importance of Patient Engagement in a Successful HIE

by Fred Pennic 05/01/2012 1 Comment

Written by John Smith, Director of Communications at ICA shares his thoughts on the importance of patient engagement in a successful health information exchange.  Patient engagement and health information exchange (HIE): These are two of the mantras of the modern healthcare environment. But what are the drivers of success in this environment?
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