Innovating Patient Care with Integrated Healthcare Systems Series: Part 1- Integrating Healthcare Data Benefits Patients and Providers
The ability to share patient data across disparate networks is the key to raising the standards on patient care delivery. To understand the concept of integrated patient care, picture a utopian healthcare system that co-locates all of a patient’s healthcare providers in one building. The primary care physician (PCP) examines the patient and sends her […]
Innovating Patient Care with Integrated Healthcare Systems Series: Part 2- Overcoming Challenges to Healthcare Systems Integration
The ability to share patient data across disparate networks is the key to raising the standards on patient care delivery. Despite the numerous benefits that integrated health record systems, such as Health Information Exchanges (HIEs), can bring to patient care, hospitals and other healthcare organizations face a number of business-related and technical challenges around data […]