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More Hospitals Achieving Interoperability Goals

Healthcare IT Today

New research from the ONC has found that a meaningful percentage of hospitals are engaged in data sharing, with a growing number making patient health information available from outside sources. Though the data goes back a couple of years, it’s still a worthwhile look at where data sharing trends are among hospitals.

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How a Sepsis Project Helped HCA Be Better Prepared for Hurricanes

Healthcare IT Today

HCA Healthcare , one of the leading providers of care in 20 states and in the United Kingdom, has smartly been investing to improve the quality of the health data they collect. That is a much more complex data quality challenge.” Good quality data can also be a catalyst for other data-based innovations in care delivery.

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Tech and the future of care work – five research midpoint observations

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The solution, of course, relies on data sharing among the participating care providers. Moving forward, there is an uphill climb towards interoperability across systems. And personalized care plans associated with response systems will increasingly be built on health data, family input and care status changes, as done with CareDaily.

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