Workflow

For healthcare organizations slow to break through, the fate of Blockbuster Video could await them.

Now that all certified EHRs share minimum functionality and can exchange information with each other, the time has come to refocus this entire industry on improving customer satisfaction.

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. 

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. 

In collaboration with ECRI, a new report outlines best practices, suggesting that copy-and-paste data should be easily identifiable, with its original source easy to discern.

Digital Health Solutions, a startup launched by two Indiana University School of Medicine professionals, is commercializing software it says will help pediatricians better target care for their patients.

I recently had an opportunity to advise an IT department on the team’s overall lean initiative.

EHRs have become an integral part of healthcare delivery, but there is a sense that they aren't fulfilling their enormous potential as conduits for personal health information, patient diagnostics, point-of-care decision support and more.