More than 50% of consumers are skeptical about the benefits of healthcare information technologies, including patient portals, mobile apps and electronic health records. And fully 70% of Americans ...

Health systems are important in driving electronic health record adoption in ambulatory clinics, although the uptake of key functionalities varies across systems. Objectives: The adoption and use of ...

Studies of health information technology have not kept up with the evolving needs of the healthcare system. We explain how to set them straight. Despite rapid growth in the rate of adoption of health ...

In 2023, nearly one-third of immigrants who sought health care in the US reported obstacles in receiving respectful communication from their providers. That is equivalent to a little more than 10 ...

Health informatics saves lives by combining information technology and computer science with clinical expertise and management for better patient care. It's a broad field, and the far-ranging effects ...

Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin ( [email protected]) is a senior economic adviser in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, in ...

Mount Sinai and Latent Health set a new health pace healthcare mount standard by completing a full tech implementation in one day with tight collaboration.

On June 17, 2024, the final rule for Medicare Part D introduced new health IT standards, mandating the adoption of NCPDP SCRIPT Standard version 2023011 by January 1, 2028, while the NCPDP Formulary ...

Health technologies can support the implementation o effective national health and care systems. These are defined as data-enabled infrastructure that supports policy and planning. In addition, they ...

Instead of calling this the information blocking rule, they should have called it the information sharing rule. The industry ...

Professionals have the satisfaction of knowing their efforts lead to tangible improvements in lives and communities.