Does perception equal reality when it comes to health data interoperability?
After the widespread adoption of EHRs, the place for interoperability in the healthcare environment has evolved with vendors moving toward FHIR and open APIs.
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Achieving Integrated Care as the Foundation of Population Health Management: The Drivers for Change, Part 3
Healthcare systems globally are at different stages of maturity, but all need to follow a similar path to achieve the holy grail of population health management—where integrated care includes analysis and patient engagement such that everyone has an actionable patient record, improving both clinical and financial outcomes across the population.
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5 ways to get the most out of online healthcare software training
Maximize the benefits of your next healthcare training with these key tactics. Utilize these pointers to improve your learning and increase retention.
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Improving patient-centric measurement in value-based care
Despite widespread EHR adoption, most health systems fare poorly at measuring anything that happens after the patient leaves their facilities.
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Achieving Integrated Care as the Foundation of Population Health Management: The Drivers for Change, Part 2
Our last blog post outlined some of the key drivers for integrated care—healthcare that crosses organizational boundaries and different care settings—globally. In this post, I'll focus on two drivers that are particularly relevant in the U.S.: financial and legislative.
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Achieving Integrated Care as the Foundation of Population Health Management: The Drivers for Change, Part 1
Integrated care is the goal of health systems worldwide, and there are numerous drivers for this. The following are some of the key drivers for integrated care globally.
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The Move Toward API-Based Development and Integration
Brian Murphy, an industry analyst, recently anatomized open application programming interfaces (APIs) in the healthcare sector for a 32-page research report. In the piece, Murphy articulated a number of views on:
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Flexibility: An Important Component for a Hospital’s Health Data Exchange Activities
Position and job responsibilities will inform a person’s perception of product flexibility, whether you are on the front line of interface development or if you are a director overseeing strategic pla
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Why is it important for Clinicians to become actively involved in FHIR®?
The HL7® FHIR® standard is evolving to the point where it is feasible - if not necessary - for clinicians to become actively involved in FHIR®.
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