Over the last few years, industry groups dedicated to interoperability have been popping up like mushrooms after a hard rain. All seem to be dedicated to...
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Obviously, managing and protecting patients’ personal health information is very important already. But with high-profile incidents highlighting questionable...
Recently two of the bigger players working on health data interoperability – Carequality and the CommonWell Health Alliance – agreed to share data with each...
When it comes to investing in enterprise software, just about any deal can turn sour. If you’re acquiring a mission-critical platform, there’s an...
I’ve had this discussion come up over and over again today in a series of discussions that I’ve had at the NYeC’s Digital Health Conference...
Sutter Health doesn’t have a great reputation when it comes to EMR implementation. Late last year, when we reported that Sutter’s Epic EMR crashed...
This is a very busy time for HIE builders. In recent months several states have either announced that they’d completed their preparations for a broad...
The American Academy of Pediatrics is calling for changes to EMRs to protect the privacy of adolescent patients, whom, it says, don’t currently get the...
ONCHIT is demanding them. Patients are beginning to understand them. But poor ol’ beleaguered HIEs still aren’t getting the attention they deserve...
Here’s some stats that wowed me, and may surprise you too. It looks like hospitals, under pressure to move towards meeting Meaningful Use Stage 2...