Dr. Gautam Sivakumar, CEO and Founder of Medisas
When I started in this industry, the idea that we would put patient information in the cloud was an absurdity. How on earth could anyone justify putting the most sensitive information in our personal lives somewhere other than a locked cupboard, in the safety of a hospital? We would never dream of letting paper patient charts leave the hospital or clinic, so why would we let them leave simply because they are electronic?
Historically, security
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HIM Provider Ciox Health Lands $30M to Expand Health Data Repository
Ciox Health, a provider of health information management solutions has raised $30 million in equity investment capital led by Merck Global Health Innovation Fund (Merck GHIF) and private equity owner New Mountain Capital. Every record represents a real person. Each data point is a potential game-changer in someone’s life: a connection to be understood and acted upon. Ciox rapidly and securely facilitates access to clinical records on behalf of its healthcare provider customers, enabling
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How Patients Suffer From The Worst Kept Secret in Health IT
Recently, articles in The Atlantic and Fortune highlighted a risk that plagues the healthcare system but is rarely talked about. The in-depth pieces uncover real-life patient stories resulting from mismatched and incorrect patient medical records. These tragic stories unfold in the articles and highlight scenarios that include permanent brain damage in a 5-year old; a cancer scare due to an incomplete radiological history; the missed diagnosis of a fatal brain aneurysm in a 47-year old woman;
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HealthFeed Integrates Patient Education Module With DrChrono EHR
HealthFeed, a multichannel, embedded patient engagement platform, has announced an integration partnership with DrChrono EHR platform so providers will have access to over 10x more educational content. As part of the integration with DrChrono’s EHR platform, providers can now use the HealthFeed module to give patients medically validated health education illustrations and articles within the mediums that they use the most, such as emails and text messages. The module also includes video
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HHS Should Be Careful Not To Go Too Far Too Fast on New EHR Rules
Senate health committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) on Wednesday said, “The administration should not move too far, too fast on implementing new rules on electronic health information.”Improving the access, use, and exchange of electronic health information is important to this committee,” Alexander said. “In March, the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued two proposed rules to implement
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SMART on FHIR: Is it Worth the Investment or Just Another Burden for Health IT Departments?
As the healthcare industry continues to shift from fee-for-service to value-based care, data interoperability is increasingly becoming a key concern for providers trying to better engage with patients, improve clinical workflow, and ultimately drive better health outcomes. In fact, more than 70 percent of healthcare financial executives say that data interoperability must improve within the next three years to ensure the success of value-based care.The good news? The potential for secure,
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Rebooting Meaningful Use: Is It Accomplishing Its Mission?
Editor's Note: Dr. Reid Coleman is the Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) for evidence-based medicine at Nuance.
Meaningful Use is an important set of criteria designed to improve quality and safety, but is it accomplishing its mission?
The proposed rules for Meaningful Use (MU) Stage 3 were just released by both CMS and the ONC. Many writers have commented on these rules, and this blog post is not a commentary about the rules. As always, I recommend readers go to John
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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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MU Stage 3 Proposed Rule: 5 Toughest Measures for Physicians
61 percent of physicians feel the federal government has not done a fair job with the MU stage 3 proposed rule, according to a recent survey conducted by QuantiaMD and exclusively designed by Healthcare Informatics editors. For the survey, QuantiaMD, a Waltham, Mass.-based social network for physicians asked physicians in its network about proposed Meaningful Use Stage 3 rules to support the path to nationwide interoperability.
In response to an open answered question on what
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Meaningful Use Stage 3 Proposed Rule: 5 Takeaways for Physicians
On March 20, 2015 the stars aligned to produce four simultaneous events that will never again coincide during the life of human civilization. The first three, the vernal equinox, a total solar eclipse and a new supermoon, were brought to us by the stars themselves, and the fourth one was thrown out there by the government. The regulations for Meaningful Use Stage 3 were finally published. Meaningful use of electronic health records (EHR) was presented to us back in 2009 as part of a stimulus
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