Data Warehousing
A paper published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association noted that EHRs often misclassify American Sign Language as an "other" language, leading to data quality issues.
A nurse IT expert at the organization explores the complex journey to an electronic health record unlike any other.
Among hospitalized patients, the agency found that those who had gotten two shots of the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine were less likely to test positive for COVID-19.
The survey offers a chance for health system leaders to learn more about a fast-changing threat environment, and benchmark how their own cybersecurity programs compare to those of their peers.
The commission, convened by The Lancet and the Financial Times, argued in a recent report that the promise of digital transformations requires a paradigm shift.
The agency isn't alone. As ONC head Micky Tripathi put it, "The fragmentation of the healthcare industry … is the biggest challenge we all face."
The agency is now showing disease incidence among unvaccinated people, as well as those who received Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, and Moderna vaccines.
The successful experience of United Rheumatology and its Normalized Integrated Community Evidence repository can be a lesson for other healthcare providers.
The enterprise-grade server is meant to help simplify the development process for FHIR-powered healthcare apps and to streamline data storage across IoMT, EHRs and clinical research databases.
A recent task force report offers some preliminary exploration of how definitions of EHI and designated record set might be operationalized going forward under the Cures Act Final Rule.