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Health information management professionals aid cybersecurity
Cybersecurity is an ongoing priority -- and challenge -- for healthcare organizations. A health information management team can help keep data secure and protected. Continue Reading
Blockchain can help improve the quality of patient care
Improving patient care quality is an ongoing conversation among healthcare professionals. Learn how the implementation of blockchain can make a difference. Continue Reading
Experts say secure healthcare communication should function like email
Secure messaging in healthcare can save providers and patients time and frustration, but the security of PHI should always be the number one priority. Continue Reading
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To solve lack of interoperability, health IT tries third-party apps, HIEs
Many healthcare professionals are turning to third-party applications, the use of APIs and HIEs to overcome the lack of interoperability still present in healthcare. Continue Reading
Hospitals prescribe engagement for better patient-doctor relationship
Treating patients more like customers. It's a simple concept that hospitals find more practical, thanks to the availability of patient engagement tools and techniques borrowed from the domain of the retail industry. The challenge is for health IT ... Continue Reading
Vendors overcome health information exchange challenges; CIOs have hope
Vendors demonstrate that interoperability is possible when it comes to patient medication information. This makes CIOs hopeful for the future.Continue Reading
Interoperability may be in sight as Epic and Cerner work together
As two of the largest EHRs in the healthcare space, Epic and Cerner have often appeared to be at odds with each other. But that seems to be changing via an ONC initiative.Continue Reading
Online clinical network works to make interoperability possible
In this Innovation Spotlight, SearchHealthIT dives into how an online clinical network can help create interoperability, share patient information between doctors, improve workflow.Continue Reading
Data blocking: When health information exchanges don't live up to their name
Data blocking and health information exchanges shouldn't go together. But some HIEs are turning into siloes of data, two experts who discuss the problem say.Continue Reading
How to achieve interoperability of health information systems
Creating interoperability of health information systems is harder than it needs to be, a group of experts says. Here are the solutions they think will work.Continue Reading
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CMIO: Steps to solve the healthcare interoperability problem
Stanford Health Care CMIO offers tips on what can be done to improve interoperability in healthcare.Continue Reading
CIOs discuss EHR problems and single-solution EHR integration
Many healthcare organizations have migrated to a single-solution EHR to improve workflow and patient care. However, it hasn't solved all EHR problems, CIOs say.Continue Reading
CIOs address EHR problems, focus on lack of interoperability
It's no secret that EHR problems are aplenty in healthcare. But the lack of interoperability is top of mind for many in health IT. Two healthcare CIOs share their stories.Continue Reading
Patient matching technology helps HIE reduce duplicate records
In this Innovation Spotlight, SearchHealthIT looks at how an HIE reduced duplicate patient records by using NextGate's patient matching technology.Continue Reading
Data analytics helps Maine HIE take next steps
Maine recently implemented a data analytics platform on top of its state health information exchange, enabling Maine HIE participants to predict readmissions and ER visits.Continue Reading