Electronic Health Record

As a patient, a Health IT professional, and a life long privacy advocate I have long been frustrated by the effort it takes to collect and maintain my personal health record. Patient portals are centralized to a particular health care provider, and as such, I have to maintain my record…

Michael Grace (ProTech Unicorn) Note: transcription provided by Otter.AI, which is a technology company that develops speech-to text transcription and translation applications using artificial intelligence and machine learning. Christopher H. Loo, MD-PhD: So welcome, everybody to this week’s podcast episode for the Financial Freedom for Physicians Podcast. And…

This article is part of our `Data Standards 101` series, where we discuss common themes we come across as a team of informaticians and terminologists. In today’s article we deal with the ever so common theme of: If we all agree to call an `Apple` an apple, then why are…

Patient data and related Electronic Health Records (EHRs) generate volumes of clinical data at an alarming rate which will continue influencing diagnostic decision making from a cognitive load (stress) and information overload perspective. Health IT systems were touted to improve patient care. However, medical errors remain the third leading cause…

What is healthcare data interoperability It is the ability of different information systems, devices and applications to access, exchange, integrate and collaboratively use data in a coordinated manner, within and across organisational, regional and national boundaries, to provide timely and seamless portability of information and optimise the health of individuals…

Hospitals were stressed even before the COVID-19 pandemic. One reason is that people with multiple chronic conditions struggle to manage their health; navigating various providers and systems poses additional challenges. The upshot is that some of them delay care until they are so sick that they require hospitalization, or they…

SNOMED CT (Systematised Nomenclature of Medicine — Clinical Terms) is a standardised, multilingual vocabulary of clinical healthcare terminology used by physicians and other health care providers for the electronic exchange of clinical health information. Background To use coding in healthcare, a number of things are required. One requirement is a comprehensive…

Hello folks, Myself Swapnil and I am an aspiring Data Scientist. When I started my journey as a data science enthusiast I came across the term Healthcare Data Science. As a data science enthusiast everyone would have thought, can data scientists work in healthcare? We know various applications of data-driven…

How can a health insurance company gain a strategic advantage by measuring, analyzing, and acting upon quality measures to keep their members healthy The Institute of Medicine (IOM) defines the following six goals for the health care system. Safe: Avoiding harm to patients from the care intended to help them. …