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Zealous for Wellness: How to Replace Hype with Data

Healthcare IT Today

Jim Wallace, CEO of DecisionRx , points out that physicians are not usually equipped to collect measures of wellness, nor does the typical electronic health record (EHR) have fields to store them. Outcome measures are meaningful on an actuarial level, of course: not tied to individual patients on a one-to-one basis.

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Health IT execs offer thoughts on the big issues of 2021

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

" EHRs: Automation can help. "Amidst the ongoing health crisis, clinicians need relief," said David Lareau, CEO of Medicomp Systems, which develops EHR optimization tools. " Value-based care: New impetus for change. But there's no question that technology could do better helping solve the problem.

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The next investment priorities for telehealth, RPM and connected health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

As was the case with most healthcare provider organizations, COVID-19 accelerated OhioHealth's pace rolling out virtual care. During the course of the pandemic, 1,400 caregivers have been trained and have performed some manner of virtual visit. Investing in consolidation. Currently, 10% of ambulatory visits are video-based.

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Short Takes at #HIMSS18 – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

Of course, it seems crazy that the health IT incentives and Meaningful Use didn’t mandate interoperability; and the last few years of health IT development might have gone differently if interoperability were required before the 21st Century Cures Act mandated it and made data blocking illegal, but we are now looking forward, not backward.

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Short Takes at #HIMSS18 – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

Of course, it seems crazy that the health IT incentives and Meaningful Use didn’t mandate interoperability; and the last few years of health IT development might have gone differently if interoperability were required before the 21st Century Cures Act mandated it and made data blocking illegal, but we are now looking forward, not backward.

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Short Takes at #HIMSS18 – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

Of course, it seems crazy that the health IT incentives and Meaningful Use didn’t mandate interoperability; and the last few years of health IT development might have gone differently if interoperability were required before the 21st Century Cures Act mandated it and made data blocking illegal, but we are now looking forward, not backward.

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Short Takes at #HIMSS18 – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

Of course, it seems crazy that the health IT incentives and Meaningful Use didn’t mandate interoperability; and the last few years of health IT development might have gone differently if interoperability were required before the 21st Century Cures Act mandated it and made data blocking illegal, but we are now looking forward, not backward.