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EHR Innovations That Should Be Happening But Aren’t

Healthcare IT Today

An EHR system needs to make a 360-degree view of patient data accessible in a secure manner that can be made available using standard interfaces like FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) APIs for structured data exchange and DICOM for imaging.

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Mission Critical: Utilizing Technology to Advance Healthcare Interoperability

Healthcare IT Today

Only 40 percent of hospitals electronically integrate data from other hospitals outside of their system and only a distressing 30 percent of skilled nursing facilities exchange data outside of their walls. Notably, between 30 and 47 percent of U.S. hospitals still rely on fax or mail to send and receive patient records.

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Reduce Physician Burnout by Addressing Usability and Interoperability Says CMA President

Healthcare IT Today

All around the globe, healthcare systems are beginning to strain and fray as physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals leave their positions or scale back their hours. Restoring our health systems and re-energizing staff is going to require change and improvement on many fronts. There is no silver bullet. Worrying Trend.

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Consumers’ Embrace of Digital Health Tech Stalls, and Privacy Concerns Prevail – Accenture’s 2020 Research

Health Populi

Overall, 75% of consumers trust medical doctors, and 69% trust nurse practitioners and physician assistants. Department of Health and Human Services unveiled the long-anticipated ONC Cures Act Final Rule for health data interoperability. In the case of the Rule, the data will be provided to us via our smartphones.

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Health Consumers Expect Healthcare to be Digital (and Secure), Philips Future Health Index Finds

Health Populi

Using digital tech has improved consumers’ experiences with health care providers across a range of tasks: 53% told Philips it’s easier to schedule appointments, 47% think it’s easier to get test results, 42% receive appointment reminders, and 27% are able to monitor health indicators on their own.

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Digital Health Gaps in the Pandemic Through the Eyes of Younger Physicians

Health Populi

Telehealth in the pandemic was, in Philips’ words, “crucial but underused” Interoperability is still an obstacle, and, Digital technology will be pivotal in the next few years. The top-line findings across the five countries were that, Younger physicians remain, mostly, committed to the profession in the crisis.

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Healthcare Data and Analytics – 2025 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

In 2025, I’m bullish on AI as a catalyst to unlock healthcare’s data potential. Systems that embrace real-time orchestration will dynamically match capacity with demand across clinics, virtual care, and nursing resources to ease workforce pressures, close coverage gaps, and turn margins from survival to growth.