Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)

A roundup of big ideas from experts on interoperability, patient engagement, security, cloud computing, innovation, policy and more during HIMSS18.

The agency named University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Chief Innovation Officer Rasu Shrestha to lead work mapping the electronic medical record to the FHIR APIs and create common data standards through industry partnerships.

The health system will collect unprocessed data from AncestryDNA, MyHeritage and 23andMe to validate new findings and discover new mutations, the organization said. 

Chief Information Officer Jonathan Shoemaker offers a glimpse inside the health system’s innovative arrangements.

The MyHealthEData Initiative, announced by CMS' Seema Verma at HIMSS18, is too light on detail to make much of a difference, said the former VP – who offered his own way forward.

Research team finds patterns of symptoms that might be caused by an underlying genetic variant.

The embattled VA secretary told a Congressional committee that the agency is working closely with the DoD to learn lessons for its own Cerner overhaul.

The C should stand for connected, not comprehensive, say tech, policy and clinical experts at the school's Center for Digital Health Innovation.

In a previous blog for the British Journal of Healthcare Computing, I argued the NHS will not be able to deliver their population health management vision without the right digital tools in place, underpinned by the right staff skills training. Only this will enable them to make integrated systems a reality.

Now that President Trump has officially removed Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, the future is uncertain for the Cerner contract.