topic: Health Information Exchanges
Bringing Home the Blockchain Promise: Two Promising Applications By Chet Stagnaro
If you are thinking about a blockchain solution for your organization, it’s good to know which solutions are poised to deliver the greatest return on investment. This article highlights two of the most promising uses of blockchain in decentralized health care: digital distributed transactional ledgers and smart contracts.
5 Steps Toward Maximizing Your Clinical and Business Intelligence (C&BI) By Kam Reams
Although management guru Peter Drucker famously said “What gets measured, gets managed,” measurement itself, while a great starting point, is no guarantee of management. In health care, clinical and business intelligence (C&BI) involves analyzing and using healthcare data to directly inform—and presumably improve—clinical and business decision-making. Yet data analysis is easier said than done, as HIMSS board member Diane M. Carr recently acknowledged in an interview: “With the explosion of electronic health records recently, more and more health systems and individual...
Meaningful Use Requirements: Start Preparing Your Organization for Stage 3
Meaningful Use (MU) requirements and the current EHR Incentives Program will change significantly from 2015 to 2018, as part of a larger shift to patient-centered healthcare reform. When the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the extension of current MU Stage 1 and Stage 2 requirements ("Modified MU Rule") through 2017, many organizations breathed a sigh of relief. However, MU Stage 3 is just around the corner, and everyone will soon be rushing to meet those...
Is Your Hospital Really Paperless? By Josh Nathan
As seen in Healthcare IT News. It is tempting to believe that your hospital is now paperless once you’ve implemented an electronic medical record (EMR) system or completed an EHR conversion. While EHRs are the biggest step toward going paperless, most organizations still manage volumes of paper which prevents the establishment of a truly integrated care team – one in which all information is available to all providers in near real time. Organizations that are not completely...
Health Information Exchanges: Using Gathered Data to Improve Health Care
Freed has been helping healthcare organizations implement EHRs for more than a decade and understands the challenges involved in assuring successful outcomes. Following the implementation of EHRs, one of the next challenges is how to share that information across incompatible IT platforms. “As organizations consider the reams of patient data they’ve collected, one of their biggest challenges is determining what to look for, how to get the information they need and how to respond to it all. While this is a...