From the Health IT Buzz Blog – In our first post in the Digital Dividends blog series, we explored how more individuals than ever are accessing and using their health information online, especially those managing chronic conditions or a recent cancer diagnosis.
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By Catherine Strawley & Jordan Everson – What’s in a number? A lot, it turns out, especially when it comes to measuring interoperability progress. For well over a decade, we have collaborated with federal and private sector partners on interoperability-related surveys to answer a big picture question: “how are we doing?”
From the Health IT Buzz Blog – New research from a survey of digital health companies shows that 73% of companies use standards-based application programming interfaces (APIs) when integrating with electronic health records (EHRs).
By Catherine Strawley & Chelsea Richwine – Screening for patients’ health-related social needs can help providers more effectively coordinate patient care and connect patients to the resources they need. Social needs are social conditions—such as food insecurity, housing instability, and lack of reliable transportation—
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 September that we think deserve sharing again.
By Catherine Strawley & Wes Barker – Thanks to a decade of effort, nearly every U.S. hospital today stores health data electronically. To put that data to work, however, clinicians and patients need to be able to access and appropriately share that data.