Timeliness and Productivity are two of the keys to successful Practice Management. Being able to quickly communicate from provider to provider can mean saving a life or cutting down on the cost of operations that includes time, staff and expense. The Dept of Health and Human Services ONC has developed regulations that require secure encrypted...
HIE BLOG: Business
Patient Engagement, Data Liberation and Portability The proposed Stage 2 Meaningful Use regulations for the healthcare industry may seem daunting to both large and small providers and many health care organizations believe that integration will negatively impact patient care and clinical workflow. Yet, the investment in the proper platform can help an organization overcome the...
In today’s world, technology determines how we conduct our business and our lives. The use, exchange, and the security of data impact our well being. The concept of data liberation allow us to use and exchange our data on our own secure terms. It is worth looking at Facebook and Google when we speak of...
A “killer app” is a termed made famous in Larry Downes 1998 book “Unleashing the Killer App”. The term is used to describe an application program that intentionally or unintentionally drives consumers to to buy the system the application runs on. The spreadsheet program is the classic example of a killer app that helped introduce...
By Richard Braman Ok, I first must admit this is a slightly self-indulgent post, but in the light that other health information exchange vendors are out and about making comparisons, I thought it would be appropriate to chime in about evaluating health information exchange software vendors. We recently put our first bid in to do...
