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Healthcare’s Digital Revolution

Posted by Robert Higgs on  November 28, 2017
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Kaiser Permanente CEO, Bernard Tyson recently made this statement regarding AI, signifying the impact of healthcare’s digital revolution. “I don’t think any physician today should be practicing without artificial intelligence assisting in their practice. It’s just impossible [otherwise] to pick up on patterns, to pick up on trends, to really monitor care.” There is no doubt that the digital revolution is here. As a result, it is impacting health care in ways that were simply
Comprehensive Health Record

Comprehensive Health Record

Posted by Robert Higgs on  November 21, 2017
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There is much discussion today about the concept of a “Comprehensive Health Record”. This is an extension of the traditional terminology of “Electronic Health Records (EHR), Electronic Medical Records and Personal Health Records. At ISeeYouCare, we support the concept of a Comprehensive Health Record (CHR). Furthermore, we see it as true to the original concept of electronic health records. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) was made law on August 21,
Post-Acute Care Suffers From Lack of Data

Post-Acute Care Suffers From Lack of Data, IT

Posted by Robert Higgs on  November 16, 2017
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There is no doubt that Healthcare is now a data-driven enterprise. However, one significant segment of the industry still struggles to keep up. Post-Acute Care suffers from lack of data and IT capabilities. In an industry rich in data analytics, many post-acute care organizations and practitioners still work in a paper-based system. They are analog creatures living in a digital world. Survey Shows Post-Acute Care Suffers From Lack of Data Recently, Black Book™ surveyed 2,068

PHR vs Clinical Dashboard

Posted by Robert Higgs on  November 9, 2017
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We often debate what we should call our cornerstone product, our, MyeMHR Personal Health Record, is it a PHR? Is it an HIE? Population Health? It touches on all of these. Lately, we came to the conclusion that it is a personal “clinical dashboard”. So why is it more than just a PHR? So now we debate the idea of PHR vs Clinical Dashboard. PHRs have been around for some time. They are typically created

“Personalized Patient Care is Not in an EHR”

Posted by Robert Higgs on  November 7, 2017
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In an article in Healthcare IT News, Tom Sullivan states “Whatever may become the killer app for precision medicine might not be apparent just yet, but one thing is clear: The future of more personalized patient care is not in an EHR.”. He bases this conclusion on a statement made by John Halamka, MD, CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center: “Do I really believe that the next precision medicine breakthrough is coming within an