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Are We Further Along with Interoperability Than We Think?

Healthcare IT Today

The inability to easily exchange medical data is holding back healthcare improvements and innovation. Thankfully there has been concerted effort recently from governments, vendors, standards bodies, and healthcare organizations to address this. The Healthcare Leadership Council and other leading […].

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Health informatics and why participatory healthcare is key to its future

Society for Participatory Medicine

In order to advance healthcare, improve efficiency and care coordination, and make it easier for health information to be shared between different covered entities, electronic health records needed to be adopted. Health Informatics Trend #1: Interoperability. Here are three of them. Health Informatics Trend #2: Consumerization.

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AI in Healthcare: A Great Add-on, Not a Replacement

Healthcare IT Today

Machine Learning has successfully assisted with back-end automation and document processing for some time, but these efforts have taken on new urgency with new interoperability regulations that have led to an exponential increase of documents coming into the chart. The time to change is now and we must move faster.

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