Patient-generated health data, and the ability of healthcare providers to accept, view, exchange, and use such data to make better treatment decisions, are some of the most crucial pieces of a...
Patient portals have not done much to reduce the practice of charging copying fees for patient medical record access.
Despite the growing prevalence of EHR adoption and online patient portals,...
Patient intake has been one of the last paper-bound holdouts in healthcare, but that may soon change as stakeholders collaborate on a “virtual clipboard” project.
A number of prominent...
A centralized patient data portal will help Colorado providers with care coordination and population health management.
A coalition of seven health plans in Colorado are creating an easier way for...
The suite of CMS Compare websites lacks meaningful healthcare quality and cost information for Medicare patients, GAO states in a new report.
CMS could be doing a better job in presenting healthcare...
Patient-generated health data (PGHD) is an increasingly important piece of population health and chronic disease management, but wearable devices that track fitness, diet, and sleep data aren’t...
Patients remain deeply concerned about EHR data sharing security even as they recognize the benefits of HIE for better care.
Despite continued, widespread concerns over the security of EHR data,...
Massachusetts General Hospital (MHG) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will be working together to provide up to $3 million in grant money intended to support and accelerate clinical...
Patients are finding it tough to engage with providers through portals or other online access to their medical records, says a new issue brief by the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC), despite...
Patient-generated health data (PGHD) provided by wearable devices is set for a massive explosion in volume over the next five years, according to a report from ABI Research. Close to 100 million...
Google may track patterns in search engine use primarily to target advertising to users, but healthcare providers may be able to glean some important insights from the company’s big data, as well. ...
While patient-generated health data provided by wearable wristbands and other devices holds great potential to change the way healthcare is delivered, patients may not be aware that they aren’t just...
Patients who self-identified as gay, lesbian, or bisexual in the 2013 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) showed distinct patterns in health disparities that could help providers manage population...
Wearable health monitoring devices are slated to become much more than a passing fad for the geek contingent according to a new report by MarketsandMarkets, with sensors for patient monitoring, home...
There are few industries in the world as deeply reliant on data as healthcare, and yet there are few industries that have lagged so far behind as medicine when it comes to digitizing, harnessing,...
Integrating behavioral healthcare services into the overarching structure of the patient centered medical home (PCMH) should be a basic principle of the population health management model, say the...
Patients who suffer from celiac disease are nearly two times as likely to develop coronary artery disease as other patients, according to EHR data examined by Cleveland Clinic researchers. The...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $1 million in grant funding to Allegheny General Hospital to researchers interested in finding methods to better control pulmonary arterial...
While more data is usually a good thing when it comes to analytics, a group of researchers from Indiana is worried that that the avalanche of information heading towards public health agencies under...
HIMMS14 isn’t just about vendors handing out souvenir pens or showing off their latest and greatest products to a sea of healthcare professionals with aching feet. The massive conference, which...
