Remove Health Data Remove Health Policy Remove HIE Remove Nursing
article thumbnail

This Mission is Possible: Achieving Better Data in Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

For instance, computers could take active medication data, reconcile it, place it in chronological order, remove duplicates, clean up and present it to the clinical staff for review. Overall, we’re optimistic about the future of health data. It’s just a question of when this happens and who does the work.

EHR 104
article thumbnail

Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: An Introduction

Healthcare IT Today

Sherri Onyiego, Medical Director for the Texas Market at Equality Health. They use claims data to track use of emergency rooms, medical equipment, and generic versus brand medications. They also obtain public health data by ZIP code and data from a Health Information Exchange (HIE).