Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)

What began as an ONC initiative now independently supports a secure EHR-based communication network and accredits health technology, explains Kathryn Ayers Wickenhauser, DirectTrust's chief strategy officer.

Also, a new centre for excellence in AI in healthcare will be set up by two public universities in India.

Oracle Health's Romel Khalife discusses the company's AI-enabled data platform, which helps clinicians identify care gaps and manage disease-screening programs and can connect EHR and genomic data to improve patient outcomes.

Heart to Heart Hospice has achieved three of its top priorities, including reducing documentation time by almost 30 minutes and improving care planning – which speaks to the operational and compliance impact the technology has delivered.

Frederick Health’s precision medicine program integrates patients' genetic data into clinical workflows to support tailored decision-making. Jackie Rice, the hospital's chief information officer, describes the benefits.

More than 1,000 hospitals and 22,000 clinics are now exchanging patient data through Epic Nexus, the EHR giant's health information network operating under the national interoperability framework.

Billing time at Mountain Laurel Medical Center dropped by 19%, going from 4.2 days down to 3.4 days. Collections increased by 20%. Analytics helped with tracking value-based contracts and optimizing workflows. And no one is working 80-hour weeks anymore.

Also, the Victorian government has announced over $280 million in funding to make its virtual emergency department permanent.

CliniComp's electronic health record leverages intrinsic artificial intelligence to improve clinical workflows and increase speed to billing and collections, says Sandra Johnson, the company's SVP of client services.

Deloitte researchers say IoT technologies could make for more agile health systems and better patient outcomes – if challenges to more widespread adoption can be resolved.