Patient Access

Researchers will use the funding from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to employ pharmaceutical claims and EHR data in their effort to both reduce the impact of pain and cut down down on opioid abuse.

Convincing doctors to embrace EHRs and other new tools takes data, Mayo Clinic chief executive John Noseworthy said, and once they see the impact and the value they will move much more quickly. 

While only 10 percent of healthcare providers and payers are currently working to digitize themselves, the analyst house estimates a big surge in the months ahead. 

The rollout expands on Epic's initial deployment at CVS MinuteClinics, and will enable better care coordination for rare and complex conditions.

The new company will focus on taking the variations out of care delivery and costs. 

The survey also found that a majority of patients use a digital device and believe it would be helpful for that data to be part of their medical history. 

More people with chronic conditions tapped health apps and tools in 2016 than in 2015 and divulged more personal info to providers. But trust issues remain among doctors and consumers alike. 

Social media expert Melody Smith Jones explains what organizations need to do to benefit providers and convert unknown patients into new consumers of healthcare services.

The winning teams put strategies such as open APIs to work enabling secure and straightforward movement of patient data.

The platform enables oncologists to identify evidence-based treatment regimens for patients through integration of NantHealth’s eviti platform and Allscripts’ Sunrise EHR.