Patient Access

Price transparency tools can help patients make more educated purchasing decisions. But they must include information on both cost and quality to be effective. 

Across the healthcare industry, "the state of decision-making is really bad." Following the so-called Three Ps could point a way forward.

(SPONSORED) With value-based care models taking hold, healthcare organizations are under pressure to deliver the best clinical outcomes.

The PC maker also signed an agreement to enable the Dubai Health Authority to make an insurance program work with new EHR.

"We believe that mobile devices such as iPhones will become the predominant means by which patients interact with BIDMC," says Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center CIO John Halamka, MD. "Your phone will be the repository of your medical record."

Leading providers are already thinking about how to transform themselves from data-driven to information-driven organizations, able to offer drastically improved patient experience akin to Amazon and Google. But it's not easy.

Substance use disorder treatment centers are notoriously behind in technology, but Kemah Palms Recovery has implemented the tracking tech and an EHR to improve outcomes and report value.

Tested at YMCA, this marks the first time a CMS Innovation Center preventative service has become eligible for expansion in Medicare.

EHR makers Epic and Cerner are building advanced directive features into their software to enable data sharing, an official said. Some lawmakers are looking to make directives portable while U.S. states are building databases to store them.  

CIO Craig Richardville said Carolinas has reduced its duplicate medical records error rate from 2.9 percent to 0.01 percent using the ID and authentication technology in conjunction with its master patient index.