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By Tee Green, CEO, Greenway Health Twitter: @WTeeGreen Twitter: @greenway The healthcare industry has done a remarkable job of replacing traditional paper charts with electronic health records…
By Tee Green – The healthcare industry has done a remarkable job of replacing traditional paper charts with electronic health records (EHRs). Information that used to be sharable only by the most rudimentary means — it’s been said that fax machines lasted so long only because of healthcare — is now captured and stored electronically in a readily transmittable form.
Interoperability is the current health IT buzzword because it’s the essential ingredient in creating a system that benefits patients, doctors and hospitals. Almost everyone in healthcare is pressing for it and is frustrated, though probably not surprised, that Meaningful Use did not get us there.
The purpose of the Argonaut Project to rapidly develop a first-generation FHIR-based API to enable expanded information sharing of electronic health records and other health…
The purpose of the Argonaut Project to rapidly develop a first-generation FHIR-based API to enable expanded information sharing of electronic health records and other health information technology based on Internet standards and architectural patterns.
Health Information Exchange (HIE) is happening every minute of every day. Your personal health information is moving and being viewed to improve the quality of…
Following collaboration with more than 35 federal agencies, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology…
Following collaboration with more than 35 federal agencies, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) today issued the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan 2015-2020.