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Regulators Need to Pay More Attention to Long-term and Nursing Care

Healthcare IT Today

But these facilities are afterthoughts in our health care system, and were excluded in particular from the huge digitization of health care triggered in the United States by the 2009 HITECH act and 2010 Affordable Care Act. The next step would be to achieve real interoperability in health records, a still elusive goal.

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Healthcare Innovation Funding – Regulations and Disrupting Traditional Models

Healthcare IT Today

government introduced the meaningful use program as part of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act in 2009, LTPAC organizations – notably nursing homes – and the vulnerable patients they serve have been left behind. Since the U.S.

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Health informatics and why participatory healthcare is key to its future

Society for Participatory Medicine

Healthcare informatics provides electronic access to medical records for patients, doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, insurance companies and health information technicians. Health Informatics Trend #1: Interoperability. The Northeastern MS in Health Informatics program addresses interoperability in two ways.

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The Future of Healthcare: Integrated Data for Integrated Care

Healthcare IT Today

The siloed nature of such data repositories can be attributed to various factors, including using different EHR systems, varying data capture standards, and a historical lack of emphasis on system interoperability. The solution to these challenges lies in the adoption of interoperable data systems.

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Business of Healthcare and Value Based Care – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

More tech requires more upkeep, more data requiring complex management, and less interoperability or communication between dissimilar systems. Increasingly, stakeholders will need to prioritize system interoperability and cost-optimizing solutions that leverage data-driven insights.

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The Tech Giants are Coming for Healthcare

Lloyd Price

It may be too early to start imagining a world where health care is truly owned by Big Tech — you order prescription drugs with your Amazon Prime account, see a nurse at the Apple Clinic, get your benefits statements from Google, and call an Uber instead of an ambulance when you need to go to the hospital. But something is happening here.

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What Duplicate Patient Notes Reveal About Health Care and Its Records

Healthcare IT Today

That question would call for yet another study, which would interview the nurses and doctors themselves. Most hospitals are not set up share their records; interoperability is still limited. A related motivation was suggested by to two administrators with nursing backgrounds: Joy Avery and Donna Pritchard from CipherHealth.

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