Editor's Note: John H. Hammergren is chairman, president and chief executive officer of McKesson Corporation.
How often do we visit the doctor’s office and think, “This again?” when handed a long medical form to fill out? Don’t we all wonder why our medical information can’t be automatically transferred from our primary care physician to the specialist? Or to the hospital or outpatient surgery center?
The answer is this: we don’t currently have a national network of connectivity that
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HIMSS 2015
Report: Healthcare Interoperability Gets Failing Grade
A national physician survey of nearly 3,000 physicians who use the Epocrates medical reference app reveal that 95% of physicians have experienced a delay or difficulty delivering medical care because patients’ health records were not easily accessible or shared. The Epocrates study, prepared by athenahealth finds only 14% of physicians can actually access electronic health information across all care settings. Given the nearly unanimous frustration over the lack of helathcare
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Epic to Waive Record Sharing Fees
EHR leader Epic announced this week during HIMSS15 that it will no longer charge a fee to exchange patient records between Epic customers and non-Epic customers through a module formerly called Care Elsewhere, Modern Healthcare first reports.
Data sharing services with Non-Epic customers have since been bundled into Epic's other interoperability module, Care Everywhere. “We're not going to charge for Care Everywhere for at least until 2020,”said Epic CEO Judy Faulkner in an interview
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HIMSS15 Day 3 Summary and Highlights
Humana CEO Bruce Broussard: Time to Change Business Models and Move Towards Value-Based Payments
In his Tuesday keynote address, Humana’s Broussard called for transformation—and interoperability—in healthcare, Healthcare Informatics reports.
“We have to change the conversation on what we are doing in healthcare from a supply-based system to a system around demand, a system where we put the customer first as opposed to the system,” Broussard said. “Over the years, healthcare has been built
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HIMSS Mobile Technology Survey Infographic
The 2015 HIMSS Mobile Technology Survey of more than 200 healthcare provider employees reveals that healthcare organizations are widely beginning to deploy mobile health technologies with the aim of engaging patients within their organizations. Many respondents also emphasized a need to fully optimize and leverage the wide capabilities that mobile technologies and platforms offered.
The infographic shown illustrates the key findings:
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Apple ResearchKit Now Available To All Medical Researchers
Apple has announced that ResearchKit, an open source software framework designed for medical and health research that helps doctors, scientists and other researchers gather data more frequently and more accurately from participants using mobile devices, is now available to researchers and developers.
The platform was first launched last month with five inaugural research apps developed using ResearchKit study asthma, breast cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and Parkinson’s disease,
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HIMSS Mobile Technology Survey: 15 Key Findings
Today, at the HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition in Chicago, HIMSS released the results of the 2015 HIMSS Mobile Technology Survey. This year’s study, of more than 200 healthcare provider employees. Many respondents revealed that healthcare organizations are widely beginning to deploy mobile health technologies with the aim of engaging patients within their organizations. Many respondents also emphasized a need to fully optimize and leverage the wide capabilities that mobile technologies and
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HHS Launches $1M Community Interoperability HIE Program
National Coordinator for Health IT Karen B. DeSalvo, M.D., M.P.H., M.Sc., announced today the availability of $1 million in grant funds to support community projects for the Community Interoperability Health Information Exchange (HIE) Program. The funding will help support and enable the flow of health information at the community level, leading to better care and better health.
Community Interoperability HIE Program Overview
The Community Interoperability and HIE program will provide funds
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Is Machine Interoperability the Next Unusable Level of Meaningful Use?
As the HIMSS15 extravaganza is getting under way, and every EHR vendor flush with cash from the Meaningful Use bonanza is preparing to take its unusable product to the next level, machine interoperability is shaping up to be the belle of the ball.
Interoperability in health care is all the rage now. After publishing a ten year interoperability plan, which according to the Federal Trade Commission(FTC) is well position to protect us from wanton market competition and heretic innovations, the
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Partners Healthcare, Samsung Partner To Develop Personalized Digital Health Solutions
Partners HealthCare is partnering with Samsung Electronics to develop the next generation of personalized digital and mobile solutions for health and wellness. The first phase of this partnership will include software development and clinical research to deliver tools to improve chronic disease management.
Remote monitoring programs help patients and providers effectively manage chronic conditions, enabling patients to track their health, securely share personal health data with their
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