In a race to get the most data to drive artificial intelligence, research projects or patient care, it’s important to concentrate on what makes that data usable as opposed to just possible to transmit.
Is it Possible to Get Your Health Data Too Quickly?
Now and Later
Why Health Systems Count on Extract’s HealthyData for Healthy Patient Outcomes
We’re Still Using Fax Machines, Even in a Pandemic
COVID test result data is pouring into public health departments from an unprecedented number of labs, in a variety of formats and qualities. Faxed in results are leading to duplication, missing data, and lengthy turnaround times that are compromising contact tracing efforts. Learn how this problem can be solved.
The Design Choices in Extract's User Interface
How Your Data Disconnect and Patient Care Are Related
A Crash Course in Nursing Informatics
AHIMA Brings Fresh Healthcare Innovation
Top 5 Telemedicine Solutions Bringing Patients and Doctors Closer
Patients feel that they aren’t getting quality care from their physicians. They are being incorrectly diagnosed because they simply aren’t getting more than 15-minutes with their physicians. Their questions aren’t being answered, but instead being directed towards nurses. Patients are feeling more and more like Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, on a journey to the Emerald City to find the Wizard and ask the for help.
The Three Bears and Healthcare Data
Many of you know the fairly tale tilted, "Goldilocks and the Three Bears." Upon entering the home of the Three Bears, Goldilocks sits in their chairs, eats their porridge, and falls asleep in their beds. Upon sampling each of the Bear's chairs, porridge, and beds she exclaims that one is too much, the other is not enough, but the last option is just right. What does this fairy tale have to do with Healthcare data and performing one's job, you may ask?
How to Solve One Precision Medicine Obstacle
The move towards precision medicine is gaining more traction though the project faces limitations. One area that we can anticipate will be influenced by precision medicine programs as healthcare IT technologies continue to spread in the healthcare market is in EMR/EHR solution integration and functionality.
Electronic Health Records Will Help Customize Medical Treatments
In a recent topic covered by NPR in Health News, titled Electronic Health Records May Help Customize Medical Treatments, expresses how healthcare is continuously uncovering the benefit of population health and the potential for a database of medical records to be mined in order to help shape an individual’s treatment.
The Trump Wild Card
I have recently talked with a few healthcare executives. They, like everyone else I know, are careful about what they say about the effect a Trump presidency will have on healthcare. This could be that they are being politically correct but it’s possible they don’t know what Trump is actually going to do. It is clear Trump’s pre-election rhetoric has softened in many areas. Only time will tell what his real intentions are.
