Patient Access

While it’s difficult to predict what will happen next in Washington, there is certainty around one thing.

A new skill for Amazon's Alexa voice assistant will direct New York patients to convenient emergency and urgent care locations with the shortest waits.

Through the EHR vendor’s developer program, Zocdoc connects with Allscripts’ clinical scheduling software.

The Advisory Board will include, among others, Richard Corbridge, currently transitioning out of his tenure as Health Service Executive CIO in Ireland to become the CIO of Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and NHS Digital Chief Nurse Anne Cooper, a digitally-empowered patient with diabetes.

Goal is to give patients access to their clinical and behavioral info through MyChart, Epic’s patient portal.

Using big data to find incidents of medication nonadherence – and using it to tailor patient interventions  – is a key component to population health, says Harvard's Niteesh Choudhry.

Most organizations take an administrative approach to managing denials. Maybe that’s why they’re not collecting as much as they should.

The renowned author and physician-scientist highlights the hurdles to sharing data with patients and asserts that giving patients their records could save lives.

Its launch of portal-connected consumer health record and extension of free CommonWell exchange services are meant to show commitment to interoperability, "no matter what the definition," said President Zane Burke.

SMART on FHIR embeds the apps into the Cerner EMR, and the company’s reps say everybody wants to talk about the possibilities.