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To Drive Value, EHRs Need to Actually be Usable

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Khalid Al-Maskari, Founder and CEO of Health Information Management Systems (HiMS) EHRs are ubiquitous because they’re useful – but how useful are they really, and to whom? The truth is that an EHR by definition serves multiple masters, satisfying some more than others. The upshot?

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A Health Future with Lyft and Uber as Patient Data Stewards: Rock Health’s 2019 Consumer Survey

Health Populi

Patients searching online for health information and health care provider reviews is mainstream in 2019. Digital health tracking is now adopted by 4 in 10 U.S. Rock Health’s Digital Health Consumer Adoption Report for 2019 was developed in collaboration with the Stanford Medicine Center for Digital Health.

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Physicians More Bullish On the Benefits of Digital Tools for Patient Care, the AMA Tells Us

Health Populi

Most doctors see the advantages of digital health tools like telehealth, consumers’ access to their health information, and point-of-care workflow solutions, the American Medical Association found in a survey of 1300 physicians, published in September 2022. physicians and nurses as the pandemic emerged in early 2020.

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HIMSS 2019: The Mainstreaming of Health IT, from Jim Cramer to Opioid Risk Scores

Health Populi

On January 10, 2019, Jim Cramer of CNBC’s Mad Money recommended that Apple buy Epic, a market leader in EHRs. At that moment in the Twitterverse, it occurred to me that health IT as a consumer-facing industry was beginning to mainstream in America. Why is this so important? That was tweeted ten years ago.

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Joint Commission intros new Telehealth Accreditation Program

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In recent decades, one of its big focuses has been on health information technology, such as EHR safety features , handoff alerts , patient education , clinical quality metrics , health equity and more.

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What the Hell Is Going On with Healthcare Interoperability?

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) filed its annual year-end report to Congress at the start of 2019. The most interesting takeaway has to do with the […].

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Many Hospitals Still Holding Out On Direct Health Information Sharing

Healthcare IT Today

However, at least when this data was collected in 2019, hospitals were still playing their little passive-aggressive game where they make the data available to […].