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Give Your EHR a Makeover—Not a Do-Over

by David Lareau, CEO of Medicomp Systems 06/29/2020 Leave a Comment

Give Your EHR a Makeover—Not a Do-Over

EHRs have long been blamed for fueling clinician frustration and burnout. According to a recent study published in the Journal of Informatics in Health and Biomedicine, 70 percent of clinicians reported experiencing stress related to the use of health information technology. In an effort to address those issues, healthcare organizations have spent countless hours and revenue to rip out inefficient clinical systems and replace them with new technologies—yet clinician satisfaction hasn’t
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COVID-19 Pandemic: Prevent the Oncoming Medical Information Crisis

by Kyle Silvestro, CEO at SyTrue 03/31/2020 Leave a Comment

COVID-19 Pandemic: Prevent the Oncoming Medical Information Crisis

“You only know who is naked when the tide goes out,” Warren Buffett famously said of the nation’s businesses when markets tank. For the nation’s information systems, the opposite is true. You see their weaknesses when they are inundated by a tidal wave of data. A case in point is the information infrastructure of the American healthcare system, which will play a critical role in understanding and battling the COVID-19 pandemic. Just as the capacity of some national health systems have been
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5 Reasons Why A Single, Integrated EHR Will Not Solve Interoperability

by Kimberly Howland, PhD, Chief Product Officer at Diameter Health 12/06/2019 Leave a Comment

Why Interoperability Cannot Be Solved with Homogenous EHRs

A recent survey of health system IT, informatics, business, and clinical staff revealed that less than 40% of healthcare executives believe their organizations successfully share clinical data with external health systems, payers, and other partners. When asked what steps their organizations are taking to address interoperability challenges, 60% of respondents reported their organizations were moving to a single, integrated EHR. In addition to costing tens or hundreds of millions of dollars,
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Wolters Kluwer Harnesses AI to Bridge Data in EHRs to Speed Accuracy of HAIs

by Jasmine Pennic 04/24/2019 Leave a Comment

Wolters Kluwer Harnesses AI to Bridge Data in EHRs to Speed Accuracy of HAIs

With healthcare M&A at an all-time high, many hospitals and health systems are feeling interoperability pains following mergers.  Wolters Kluwer is now harnessing AI to bridge data in electronic health records (EHRs) and disparate systems, such as lab results, to improve how organizations identify and report hospital-acquired infections.Real World Data Integration Challenges for ProvidersIntegrating data from disparate EHRs across health systems continues to be a largely manual process. But
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3 Implications of 3M’s Open Source Health Data Dictionary

by Fred Pennic 06/12/2012 Leave a Comment

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Last month, 3M Health Information Systems released their Health Data Dictionary as open source software making it free and available worldwide. The open source contract is part of an agreement with U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), 3M Healthcare Data Dictionary will provide the core technology to enable semantic interoperability for the joint DoD/VA integrated Electronic Health Record (iEHR), making it possible to share medical knowledge and secure patient
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