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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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2019: Healthcare IT gains new ground

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

But at the tail end of the 'teens, we see a flowering of innovation that could only have been dreamed of in 2010. Epic CEO Judy Faulkner on Apple, docs who actually like their EHRs and Warren Buffett. Epic, Cerner and others reveal just how their EHRs are interoperable. by Mike Miliard February 13, 2019. needs a plan.

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Electronic Health Records : History, hurdles and the promise of Blockchain

Lloyd Price

The main obstacle has always been interoperability, something that blockchain technology offers a solution to. The NHS was the frontrunner in this effort, attempting to create a national EHR system, that would enable easy and secure data exchange, which in turn would lead to better outcomes and improve the quality of patient care.

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Weekender 8/10/18

HIStalk Weekender

This is the great golden spike moment for interoperability – except with the Carequality Railroad traversing the entire continent to connect CommonWell San Francisco trolley network. Theresa Brown, RN, PhD notes that doctors generally ignore those feelings as documented in the EHR’s nurse notes. Vaporware? ). Brian Too ).

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