Diana Manos

Brian Dixon highlights the promise of DeDupIT for consolidating CDAs by removing duplicate records then producing a single document. 

The technology, known as Hugo, empowers patients to compile data from multiple EHRs and synchronize them with a research database. 

Emerging models, such as value-based care, cannot adequately move forward without factoring in the role social determinants of health play. 

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center CIO John Halamka advised providers to stay the course on MACRA, while iHealth partner Justin Barnes agreed that major changes are unlikely. But Robert Tennant of the MGMA cautioned that we won’t know until Trump takes over.

Strategies like population health aren’t new to the Maryland hospital which is doing 'phenomenal things.'

With a focus on convenience for patients, the Illinois hospital is keeping its IT staff motivated.

A population health focus helps the Oregon hospital uncover critical insight hidden in patient data.

Electronic health records platforms are leaving doctors exposed by making it hard to demonstrate what they did and why. Some providers are even settling malpractice suits and not because of guilt. Hospitals cannot ignore the issue anymore.

The Center for Medical Interoperability introduced a new maturity model and HIMSS publicly commented that focusing on technical interoperability is not enough in the industry-wide move toward value-based care and alternative payment models. 

For meaningful use and MACRA, the government uses an IEEE description of interoperability that pre-dates today’s crop of EHRs. Whether or not that will carry the healthcare industry into the future is a matter of some debate.