The Digital Health Corner

JUNE 14, 2017

There are hospitals within the same healthcare system in many places with disparate EHRs which do not talk to each other or exchange information. Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) have been woefully underfunded and have fallen short of their vision. Sixty percent said social media improves the care they deliver.”

Digital Health 87

Digital Health EHR Interoperability Health Information 87

Medicine and Technology

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Want to improve health care in rural communities? Be a part of the Rural Health IT Workforce Program. Apply at Grants.gov by April 15.

Health IT 32

Health IT Meaningful Use EHR Mobile Health 32

Chilmark Research

APRIL 3, 2013

Public vs. Private Oversight of Mobile Health. Stage 2 meaningful use is requiring a deeper level of patient access to their records via view, download and transmit requirements and there is even a requirement for some email messaging between provider and patient. Below are abstracts from this month’s update.

mHealth 60

mHealth Interoperability HIE EHR 60

Medicine and Technology

JANUARY 30, 2018

Apple recently announced that its mobile Health app will link to electronic health record (EHR) systems. This will allow patients/consumers access to their personal health record (PHR). Empowering patients with their own health information is one of the first steps to fixing health care in this country.

FHIR 32

FHIR Interoperability Meaningful Use EHR 32

Healthcare Exchange Standards

MARCH 16, 2015

So back in 2011 I wrote the first profile in IHE that was targeting ‘ease of use by lightweight application platforms such as Mobile Health Applications”. Thus it targeted use of HTTP RESTful, using JSON encoding. The Mobile Health Documents (MHD) profile was born to provide a more simple API to an XDS environment.

FHIR 40

FHIR Mobile Health mHealth Meaningful Use 40