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Can Providers Continue the Healthcare Continuum Without Medical Apps?

Healthcare applications face different challenges than their counterpart in consumer applications. They are not designed to replace providers or to improve the efficiency and scalability of providers. EMR and EHR systems have common characteristics with a database system, but they are designed for healthcare. In other words, healthcare needs its own stack. Healthcare middleware must address all the common services required to support application development. Having a set of APIs access EMR and EHR systems is the starting point, but not the complete solution. Messaging, workflow, rule engine services, and more must be part of a middleware solution. Its footprint must be lightweight and cost efficient so that it can be embedded with the applications. The real healthcare challenge is addressing the missing healthcare applications in support of a diverse care environment. Our efforts must align to inspire developers in addressing providers’ needs. It will be healthcare applications that will evolve healthcare to the next level.

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Docs Blame EHRs For Lost Productivity

Mike Miliard | Healthcare IT News | November 14, 2013

Nearly 60 percent of ambulatory providers surveyed for a new IDC Health Insights report say they're unsatisfied with their electronic health records, citing frustrations with usability and workflow. Read More »

Doctors Dissatisfied With Current EHRs But Hopeful For Future

Kyle Murphy | EHR Intelligence | October 9, 2013

Physicians are dissatisfied with the current state of EHR technology but are confident that future improvements will benefit both patients and their own professional satisfaction down the road, according to a new research published by the RAND Corporation. Read More »

EHRs Can't Do Everything

Zach McCartney | Healthcare IT News | November 14, 2013

Like many other industries, healthcare is becoming more consumer-focused. As Eric Wicklund and Mike Miliard have recently documented for Healthcare IT News, patients and doctors alike have spoken out against EHR solutions for interfering with rather than facilitating doctor-patient interactions... Read More »

Expand EHR Knowledge For Stage 2 Meaningful Use Success: Q&A

Jennifer Bresnick | EHR Intelligence | August 12, 2013

Nancy Fennell, Director of the Regional Extension Center of New Hampshire (RECNH), has overseen New Hampshire’s runaway EHR adoption success, recently announcing that 65% of primary care providers and 85% of critical access hospitals (CAHs) have achieved meaningful use. [...] Fennell sat down with EHRintelligence to discuss the challenges of Stage 2 and how providers can work with industry partners to get the most out of their investments. Read More »

For Stage 2 MU, Don't Assume Vendors Have You Covered

Diana Manos | Government Health IT | March 4, 2013

A packed house at the Meaningful Use Symposium held March 3 at the 2013 HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition couldn't help but inspire awe and possibly conjure a little concern in the hearts of those attending. Read More »

Kitware To Improve Air Force Video Analyst Workflows With VIRAT

Press Release | Kitware | July 16, 2013

This new BAA funding will be used to transform analyst workflows and enable more efficient extraction of relevant information from full motion video (FMV) feeds. Read More »

LiveData OR-Dashboard, KARL STORZ OR1 Deployed In New Operating Rooms At Miami VA Healthcare System

Press Release | KARL STORZ Endoscopy-America, LiveData | June 3, 2013

LiveData, Inc. today announced that the company's OR-Dashboard has been installed into a new integrated OR system at the Department of Veterans Affairs Healthcare Facility in Miami, providing the cornerstone for advances in both workflow efficiency and patient safety. Read More »

My 2013 At Frontline; From Desktop To Cloud, Scrum To Kanban, BA To CTO, UK To NBO.

Alex Pitkin | FrontlineCloud | February 10, 2014

Hello, I’m Alex, and I am the Chief Technical Officer (CTO) here at Social Impact Lab. I work with our developers here in Nairobi, and remotely with our team in Washington, DC. Together, we make FrontlineSMS, FrontlineCloud, and other awesome SIMLab apps. Read More »

New Version Of The PACS Viewer Aycan OsiriX PRO Available

Press Release | Aycan | September 20, 2013

With the new aycan OsiriX PRO workstation with 64-bit and CE mark as a Class IIb medical device, aycan Digitalsysteme GmbH again adds further clinical applications and workflow improvements to its popular software... Read More »

Open-Source Cancer Diagnosis

Pete Swabey | InformationAge | April 11, 2013

The Free Diagnostic Pathology Software Project uses the open source principle to give doctors access to improved cancer testing workflows Read More »

Physicians Air EHR Frustrations

Mike Miliard | Healthcare IT News | March 5, 2013

[...] Clearly, some docs are having trouble with meaningful use. Indeed, as William S Underwood, senior associate at the American College of Physicians, noted in an education session Tuesday at HIMSS13, there's been a 15 percent increase in reports that practices are "very dissatisfied" with their EHRs since 2010. Read More »

Russ Johnson Talks Esri and All Things GIS

Eric Holdeman | Emergency Management | November 7, 2011

Russ Johnson has served as the public safety and homeland security director for Esri since 1997. His responsibilities include coordinating Esri's public safety industry marketing activities in the areas of homeland security, fire, emergency medical services and disaster management. Read More »

Session To Focus On EHR-Billing Controversy

Joseph Conn | ModernHealthcare.com | April 18, 2013

The controversy over the appropriate use of health information technology systems to streamline workflow while not fraudulently increasing healthcare claims will get a public airing early next month. Read More »

The HITECH Era in Retrospect

John D. Halamka, M.D. and Micky Tripathi, Ph.D. | The New England Journal of Medicine | September 7, 2017

At a high level, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009 accomplished something miraculous: the vast majority of U.S. hospitals and physicians are now active users of electronic health record (EHR) systems. No other sector of the U.S. economy of similar size (one sixth of the gross domestic product) and complexity (more than 5000 hospitals and more than 500,000 physicians) has undergone such rapid computerization...

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