EHR

Patients will always receive care across multiple venues, and that means healthcare providers must learn how to exchange data. Application programming interfaces are the way forward for interoperability.

While healthcare entities are waiting for EHR vendors to make data more interoperable, a raft of emerging technologies are enabling information exchange in ways that work effectively today, according to Lisa Moon, a partner with the Timmaron Group. 

Charles Webster, MD, MSIE, MSIS (a HIMSS17 Social Media Ambassador and @wareFLO on Twitter) researched which vendor is showing what, and where on the show floor. The final part of his series focuses on container and microservices orchestration technology.

Now that the healthcare industry is mostly digitized, leading hospitals like THR are looking at how to use technology as an enabler for improving health, CHIO Ferdinand Velasco said. 

The health IT industry is diligently working to understand and address the evolution of the healthcare consumer. But it is still a reactive response, rather than the proactive and strategic approach that's needed.

Interoperability group recommends that IT developers standardize features to manage clinical messages and their attachments.

Charles Webster, MD, (a HIMSS17 Social Media Ambassador and @wareFLO on Twitter) comprehensively researched which vendor is showing what, and where, on the show floor. Part one in his three-part series focuses on the workflow technology increasingly powering data science and machine learning. 

Black Book Report shows that 70 percent of hospitals say data from outside providers is missing from their systems' workflows.

Entrepreneurs and upstarts in the show floor nooks and crannies are a great place to find new ideas, insights and technologies that foretell coming trends. 

Kansas Health Information Network forwards all information, including notes and reports, to patients via a portal.