It's not what you post on Twitter, it's what you learn that's valuable. With 500 million Tweets that go out every day, it's easy to find opinions, pictures, news and even random thoughts, and it can be enough to make your head spin. But when you cut through the noise, you can find real-time, relevant value in […]
The number of buyers replacing their existing EHR system has increased nearly 60% year over year, according to the 2015 EHR BuyerView survey from Software Advice. "When buyers contact us, we determine whether they are purchasing an EHR system for the first time or replacing an existing system," writes Gaby Loria, market research associate at Software Advice, in […]
With a multitude of HIMSS Davies awards and Best in KLAS awards under its belt, Epic Systems’ electronic health records serve 54% of patients in the U.S. and 2.5% of patients worldwide. And its reach is expanding more every day. Epic modules are individual components of the integrated software platform that have a specialized function. For example, […]
We're starting our search for the best healthcare IT blogs on the Internet, and we need your help! In advance of our Best HIT Blogs of 2015 awards, we're calling for submissions of healthcare IT blogs you read that provide information about: Electronic medical record software systems Healthcare IT industry trends Healthcare information exchanges (HIE) […]
We all know the goals of healthcare technology are to improve quality of life, reduce costs, protect sensitive data, eliminate redundancies and increase efficiency. But as healthcare technology evolves, studies on health IT reveal it's also increasing global life expectancy - and actually saving lives. Between 1990 and 2013, global life expectancy increased by about 5.8 years […]
Though the ages and year-of-birth boundaries are a bit fuzzy in defining millennials and baby boomers, the two generations certainly process information differently. They also have vastly different healthcare needs and concerns, which is why it's important to know how healthcare patient portals can engage both generations. Since millennials grew up with technology, they use their smartphones […]
The 26th annual HIMSS Leadership Survey, unveiled at the 2015 HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition in Chicago, reveals that 68% of the survey's 330 respondents believe health IT is successfully improving the health experience Triple Aim: boosting the patient experience, reducing the costs of healthcare and advancing population health outcomes. The Triple Aim, developed by the Institute for […]
From networked medical devices to electronic medical records to wireless connectivity inside hospital waiting rooms, the healthcare industry has definitively gone digital. But with these digital advances comes substantial risk if healthcare organizations don’t secure data where it’s stored. A recent report from the Health Information Trust Alliance says many healthcare organizations lack the tools they need to […]
"The only thing constant in life is change," said Heraclitus, circa 500 B.C., and the year 2015 - and the healthcare industry - are no exception. With the second quarter of 2015 underway, more healthcare transition is on the horizon for the remainder of 2015. The ICD-10 deadline is Oct. 1, and by the end of […]
With more than 50 million impressions, 2,200 Tweets per hour by the middle of day three and 79,574 total Tweets by the last day (a new social media record for the conference), attendees at 2015 HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition were all a-twitter on Twitter about what the conference had to offer, from keynote speaker George W. Bush […]
By this time next week, more than 38,000 healthcare IT professionals, clinicians, executives and vendors from around the world will have descended on Chicago for the 2015 HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition, to discover the newest technologies, trends, and solutions in health IT. Held April 12-16 at the McCormick Center, HIMSS 2015 will focus on health IT […]
Let me start with my personal firsthand experience of health information interoperability. While playing football for his college last fall, my son sustained a pelvic fracture. He was initially seen and evaluated at the local community hospital, an excellent institution. He was transferred to an outstanding quaternary institution about 35 miles away. At the community […]