Interoperability & EHRs

The partnership promotes patient-centric services.

IBM Watson Health will work with healthcare leaders on AI, patient safety and & human-machine interactions.

Sponsored: How FHIR can help your health system do more with data.

How the move could affect emergency departments and the patients who depend on them.

Janae Sharp and Geeta Nayyar, M.D., MBA, speak about how electronic health records (EHRs) have played a role in physician burnout.

Almost 44 percent of U.S. physicians showed at least one symptom of burnout in 2017.

The lack of interoperability might be holding AI technology back.

Sponsored: How data solutions from companies like InterSystems enable doctors to improve patient engagement and health outcomes and create solutions to physician burnout.

Why a machine-learning scientist says the trouble stems from a lack of quality data.

From AI to virtual care to data sharing, these three experts have very differing views on what the future of healthcare will look like.

Clinicians in their second or third year of residency performed EHR documentation more quickly, a new study finds.

#HIMSS19 social media ambassador Janae Sharp on how health IT can improve healthcare — if leaders take responsibility.

At HIMSS, Matt Michela, CEO of Life Image, suggests a few things that could drive interoperability.

#HIMSS19: How Andrew Pecora, M.D. is combining the literature with social determinants of health and previous cases to inform clinical decision making at the point of care.

Geeta Nayyar, M.D., MBA, discusses what she is looking forward to at HIMSS 2019.

The proposed rules would allow patients to electronically access their medical health information at no cost.

Interoperability can improve patient care, satisfaction and safety.

What can physicians and healthcare executives do to achieve the "holy grail" of interoperability between electronic health records (EHRs)?

The EHR is trusted by physicians and has good value, according to the results of the Best in KLAS 2019 Software and Services report.

Karen DeSalvo played a large role in ONC’s interoperability efforts.

How far has health IT come in meeting Meaningful Use standards?

In 2016, Ciitizen’s founder sold a company to Apple that helped boost the tech giant’s EHR efforts. Now, he’s working with Verily.

The Interoperability Standards Advisory (ISA) added seven new interoperability needs to the document.

Why interoperability, not money, is healthcare IT’s greatest roadblock.

But what can health systems do to expand patient access to health data?