Giving individuals control to share their health data is one of the biggest challenges in healthcare. "Individual control of personal health data will 'tear down the wall' that's blocking health care transformation," according to Sumit Nagpal, CEO of LumiraDx. He says that if ...
The Healthcare IT Quote Of 2015
"The simple narrative of our age ‒ that computers improve the performance of every industry they touch ‒ turns out to have been magical thinking when it comes to healthcare. In our sliver of the world, we’re learning, computers make some things better, some things worse, and they ...
SMART on FHIR: Inter-app-ability
Recent research by peer60 shows that more than half of community hospitals are dissatisfied with their EHRs due to poor usability and a lack of functionality. Dissatisfaction is also high among physicians, as evident in a recent survey by Rand. Results from the peer60 ...
Will Apple Watch Deliver Form and Function? Time Will Tell
The Apple Watch is on the cover of the March issue of women's health and fitness magazine, Self, worn by Victoria's Secret model Candice Swanepoel. There is also a 12-page marketing spread for Apple Watch in Vogue. While Apple Watch hopes to be the "it" fashion accessory of ...
Should Physicians or Patients be Responsible for Health History Accuracy?
A few months back, I was fortunate enough to spend a few hours speaking with health data activist Regina Holliday. Regina has a long and complex story but, to sum it up, her husband Fred was diagnosed with and eventually succumbed to metastatic cancer in a matter of months. ...