HealthyData Blog
In healthcare, there are so many regulations and technologies to stay current on. In our HealthyData blog, you will read everything from CMS meaningful use to EMR news, clinical best practices and QAPI program initiatives.
Interoperability rules and regulations indicate how providers need to send information, but receiving actionable information is equally vital to patient care. In this blog we are talking about what new technologies are available to bridge the paper divide and ensure that clinicians have access to actionable information irrespective of their technical capabilities.
Healthcare organizations have a large amount of data that can be used to make improvements in the way the business is run. Partners Healthcare found that Natural Language Processing can be used to evaluate how decision support can be optimized to reduce alert fatigue and present more effective user messages.
I can guarantee that anybody reading this blog uses machine learning dozens of times each day without even realizing it. When you perform a web, search using Google or Bing, for instance, the search engine works so well because their software has figured out how to predict searches and rank pages for you.
The Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) has been in place for over 4 months now. It consolidated and improved Meaningful Use, PQRS, and VBPM and added some new Improvement Activities to your to-do list. By all accounts, it's a better system that will hopefully improve the healthcare we receive across the nation. But that doesn’t mean it hasn’t been a lot of work!
In some organizations, document handling has become quite the full-time job. In fact, there are over 5,000 open Document Handling Specialist (or related) positions listed on Indeed.com. Positions are open in nearly every industry imaginable, from pharmaceuticals to manufacturers. Common responsibilities include maintaining proper organization and storage...
