Pregnancy and childbirth are usually filled with anticipation and hope. Modern obstetrics has dramatically improved the ...

To describe the still-nascent collection of health information exchanges in the United States as a "patchwork" is rather an understatement: Sometimes it's more of a crazy quilt. There are public and ...

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Yet again a tree fell down in the health IT forest and it didn’t make a sound. But it should. One of the worst fears about health IT has been realized, and it’s probably just the tip of the iceberg.

In order for healthcare to move toward preventative care and patient population management, clinical information should be free flowing across networks between hospitals and physicians. For this ...

Implementing health information exchange across healthcare facilities and organizations comes with a unique set of challenges. According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s recent ...

Capitol Desk delivers the latest in health care policy and politics from Sacramento and around the state. Have an idea? Let us know. The health information exchange revolution is under way in ...

Health information exchange. It creates a free-flow of clinical information between IT systems, enhancing patient care and connecting hospitals that have different EHRs. And for CFOs and CIOs, it can ...

Note: At the permission of the presenters, this was adapted from a presentation at the SUMMIT 2015, PointClickCare’s annual user group meeting in Palm Springs, CA, delivered by the author and ...

Although most transactions in our modern world are electronic and automated, many health care professionals still exchange patient information through inefficient manual processes. In much of the US, ...