The Future Of Healthcare Technology
Jun 28, 2022
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The Future Of Healthcare Technology
The future of healthcare technology is entering a new era as researchers, innovators, and lawmakers strive to improve the accessibility, effectiveness, and cost of care.
Technology undoubtedly will play a key role in healthcare’s future — but how? Greenway’s chief information security officer says technology will empower the transition of healthcare delivery away from the point-of-care model to the more efficient, effective whole-patient approach to care.
“The point-of-care model doesn't work because it focuses on a single current issue and often overlooks the chronic symptoms that may be partially causing the issue,” the CISO said. “The economics of the model also don’t work because they force providers to focus on visit volume, rather than solely concentrating on what positively impacts actual health outcomes of patients."
HIE software solutions
Technological innovation includes features of machine learning, strategic API development and deployment, shared transactions, interoperability, dynamic artificial intelligence functionality, more dynamic record retrieval, and beyond.
The future of HIE looks a lot of like the reality of current capabilities available via ChartSwap, a single platform resource that already allows requests to request, track, pay for and download records. The HIE use and exchange of data (admissions, transfers, and discharge) are already growing by leaps and bounds every year (estimates indicate a growth of 95% in a year); and those transfer rates will only increase in the future.
HIE solutions
A health information exchange (HIE) is a regional collaboration among independent healthcare organizations for sharing clinical information. Often, administrative information is shared as well. HIEs may be categorized in terms of their approach to governance. In some countries, they may be run by a governmental agency.
Other HIEs may be run by nonprofit corporations with a board of governors that represent community stakeholders. Still others are lines of business of for-profit vendors. A final form of HIE is funded and controlled by healthcare delivery organizations (HDOs) to meet their own business concerns, rather than being neutral to all community stakeholders.
Health information exchange software
With greater access and confidentiality features, the future Health Information Exchanges will continue to support safe and effective care that continues to be ever-more personalized for and targeted to patient medical, health, and wellness needs.
The essential goals of high-quality services are to be cost-effective and streamlined. With improved monitoring, increased reporting, and seamless interoperability, these technological innovations support the ever-evolving initiatives in health care. The future also involves ease-of-use, reduced redundancy, and greater accessibility both for medical providers and patients.
Health information exchange solutions
Even with the increased adoption and meaningful use of EHR technologies, current attempts at healthcare reform will not avoid history repeating itself unless the EHR adopters participate in health information exchange (HIE). Otherwise, it is simply the condition of adding new solutions to those that came before them.
Recent developments in healthcare and health IT are beginning to inspire confidence that HIE is trending in the right direction. Earlier in the year at HIMSS13 came the announcement of the CommonWell Health Alliance aimed at increasing EHR interoperability and data liquidity, and more recently came word that Healtheway, the operator of the eHealth Exchange (née NwHIN Exchange), had named its nine founding members and intentions to make ubiquitous HIE a reality.
“These collaborations are going to move us forward and be a positive step,” says Jeri Kirschner, Federal Health Liaison/Partner Manager at Orion Health, one of Healtheway’s founding members. “Let’s remember that Stage 2 Meaningful Use will have kicked in by then, not to mention new models of care delivery and payment reform. As we see these new models becoming more popular, the role of the HIE becomes increasingly important because you need that data and they can scale it.”
Like the leadership of Healtheway and other healthcare and health IT stakeholders, Kirschner is confident that the conditions will be ripe for the exchange of health information to flourish in the coming year.
Information exchange software
A HIE is a partnership. It’s an agreement. It’s an accessible network of record retrieval, which gives doctors access to the data they need, and also allows patients to drive their own health and healing journey, with the “real” facts. It’s an exciting time to be alive because patients are able to ask questions, dig into the data, and determine the path that is best for them and their families.
With HIEs like ChartSwap, technology and data are transforming the dream of health and wellness. It’s changing the healthcare industry in ways once never even imagined. The tools are right there, at the ready. It’s just a matter of embracing the future, realizing the full potential of what’s possible.
HIE healthcare information exchange
Health information exchange (HIE), involves the electronic transfer of health information between health care organizations according to nationally recognized standards.Recent initiatives such as the hospital readmission reduction program as well as payment models including accountable care, bundled payments,and patient centered medical homes have focused on coordination of care and data sharing for improved care quality. These models rely on HIE for success and subsequently for effective population health management by provider organizations.
Despite the theoretical benefits, previous reviews of the HIE literature concluded that only weak evidence exists that links HIE to reduced costs, use of health services, or quality of care.The reviews also found that many of the early studies were limited in terms of settings studied, outcomes examined,and a focus on both first-generation systems and the infrequent use of study designs suited for making causal attributions. Nevertheless, the Medicare Access and Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization
Act of 2015 and other federal policies have encouraged the continued adoption of HIE by providers.The ensuing widespread adoption of HIE has brought new innovations to the HIE landscape including the proliferation of new HIE organizations that differ from the community HIEs that first existed. For example, enterprise HIE systems and vendor-mediated HIEs are more commonplace today.
The purpose of the current study is to update a previous systematic review on the impact of HIE. First, we are interested in examining new evidence regarding how HIE may affect health care measures such as costs, use of services, and quality. Second, given the proliferation of new types of HIE organizations, we are interested in whether studies focused on community HIEs differ in their likelihood of reporting benefits when compared to studies focused on vendor-mediated or enterprise HIE systems.
Lastly, we seek to determine the extent to which newly published studies have improved on the methodological shortcomings of earlier studies, by utilizing stronger research designs, focusing on a broader set of outcome measures, and/or examining more diverse populations and/or settings. The findings of our analysis will be beneficial to stakeholders interested in how HIE affects care; and to what degree the promised benefits of HIE are being realized.The purpose of the current study is to update a previous systematic review on the impact of HIE.
First, we are interested in examining new evidence regarding how HIE may affect health care measures such as costs, use of services, and quality. Second, given the proliferation of new types of HIE organizations, we are interested in whether studies focused on community HIEs differ in their likelihood of reporting benefits when compared to studies focused on vendor-mediated or enterprise HIE systems.
Lastly, we seek to determine the extent to which newly published studies have improved on the methodological shortcomings of earlier studies, by utilizing stronger research designs, focusing on a broader set of outcome measures, and/or examining more diverse populations and/or settings. The findings of our analysis will be beneficial to stakeholders interested in how HIE affects care; and to what degree the promised benefits of HIE are being realized.