Is COVID-19 the Y2K of Healthcare IT?
By Fred Lizza – Remember Y2K? The average person may recall it as the countdown to the year 2000 – and the fear that when the clock struck midnight, all computers would go haywire.
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Image Diversity in Medicine
New On Demand Dr. Nick: The Incrementalist: With guest Art Papier, MD, a dermatologist and CEO and co-founder of VisualDx, a company offering a diagnostic clinical decision support system designed to enhance diagnostic accuracy, aid therapeutic decisions, and improve patient safety…
Talent Tuesday: COVID-19 Pandemic Accelerates the Reinvention of the Healthcare Workforce
According to a new report from Wolters Kluwer, Health, lessons learned during the pandemic are creating a workforce better prepared to apply technology, to analyze and use data, to implement new care-delivery models for individual and population health, and to work in environments in which rapid change is the norm.
How Virtual Tech Supports Better Patient Care
By Devin Partida – The COVID-19 pandemic has presented the health care industry with some unique challenges while simultaneously being a technological turning point. Amid the chaos of the pandemic, medical systems around the world embraced new tech. One of the most promising of these advancements is virtual technology like telehealth and virtual reality.
Say “Hey!” to Project US@ – a Unified Specification for Address in Health Care
By Steven Posnack MS MHS – Standards come about for many reasons. They make things more efficient, cost effective, and safer to name a few. Often you’ll hear witty banter in the standards community (I know…right!?) about whether something is “fit for purpose.” This is also accompanied by the question, “what’s your use case?”
Step By Step: Incremental Telehealth Change
By Matt Fisher – Building on years of hype and promise, telehealth began to get its moment in early 2020 when COVID-19 brought much of the healthcare system to a halt as a means of enabling care to be focused on the growing pandemic.
Don’t You Have an Earlier Appointment
New On Demand Dr. Nick: The Incrementalist: With guests Adnan Iqbal, CEO & co-founder, and Tashfeen Ekram, MD, CMO & co-founder of Luma Health.
Health IT Issues that Deserve a Second Read – November 2020
The thought leaders in our community are good about sharing their thoughts on the issues of today. Here are the top read and shared guest posts of November that we think deserve sharing again.
Enabling Interoperability in a Consolidating Healthcare Industry
By George Pappas – Over the past two decades, we’ve witnessed growing consolidation in the healthcare industry which resulted from individual hospitals and practices being purchased and combined into larger health systems and integrated delivery networks (IDN).