EHR

The HealthcareScene founder shares expectations for HIMSS in Orlando, pet peeves, his health IT hero and one of his most popular blogs that might be unexpected among his followers. 

Starting with ONC leadership, the Trump team should seek to hold the gains in electronic health record adoption and interoperability, the group says.

President-elect Donald Trump selected Tom Bossert as White House homeland security and counterterrorism advisor - and elevated the position as an assistant to the president, the incoming administration announced Dec. 27.

The Indiana Biosciences Research Institute has unveiled a new effort to understand how type 2 diabetes varies from patient to patient. With access to data on more than 800,000 diabetics, researchers see it as a big step toward new treatments and improved diagnostic tools.

It’s personal for Kathryn Pearson Peyton. But the interoperability upside to storing breast cancer images in the cloud could be a boon to earlier detection and reducing unnecessary imaging. 

Hospira, the developer of infusion technologies, is partnering with Iatric Systems to work toward better interoperability between Hospira's smart infusion pumps and electronic medical records.

The network enables providers to access clinical records wherever they exist, and to see where patients have historically received care.

The Office of the National Coordinator for IT released its Interoperability Standards Advisory for 2017, collecting essential standards and implementation specifications for technology developers and clinicians to know.

CMS says it will reduce reimbursements to the providers that don't meet meaningful use by as much as 3 percent.

Precision medicine is promising, but integrating genomics with EHRs and workflow poses challenges. The technology for testing is the easy part. Putting the results into a usable format for clinicians can be more problematic, says Inova's John Deeken, MD.