Today's healthcare management revolves around a consumer-centric, service model. Patients are customers, and they expect the same ease of access, choices, and informed decision making they exercise in other industries to be available in their healthcare.
Higher Out of Pocket Fees Drive Decisions
A TransUnion Healthcare analysis revealed that for commercially insured pat...
The field of healthcare information technology is not such a big deal. After all, we've managed so far, haven't we? So what, if there's a small leak here and there, or the access to medical records pipelines get clogged every once in a while, and there's an overflow from time to time, and Well, we can live with that, can't we?
I always smile to myself, when I remember that plumber's ad:
"We repair what your husband fixed".
I enjoy a bit of DIY (do-it-yourself) from time to time - but I do know, that when a job is too big to handle, or too complex, you'v...
As I have written previously, CIOs across the US have been pointing out to me that both opportunities and expectations for medical records storage, access, and delivery - particularly with regards to cloud storage - are at an all-time high. More electronic health records (EHRs) must be stored and delivered faster and with greater stability and usability (and they'd love it if it could be done cheaper too).Just recently, a number of clinicians told me that they were dissatisfied with the results of an EHR rollout project. I asked them what their criteria was to determine success. Their an...
I often frequent leading hospital and medical facilities and have the opportunity to meet with and discuss everyday healthcare information technology issues with all levels of administrative and clerical staff.
Of the many and varied concerns, the issue of access to medical records (such as image management and healthcare data storage) often comes up as a top subject of conversation. Data center personnel and others tasked with the direct handling of health records ping-pong these kinds of messages on a daily basis, back ...
Healthcare information technology has been churning out ever greater amounts of medical and medical-related data, requiring better and more reliable health data management. The technology of choice seems to be the Cloud, or at least it's being heavily relied upon to store and retrieve vast amounts of health-related data - and its use is increasing daily.
Consequently, health information privacy issues have become a major concern both for the patients themselves, and for those in the healthcare service...