Brian Ahier is president of Advanced Health Information Exchange Resources, LLC. He sits on the Consumer Technology Workgroup of the HIT Standards Committee and the Consumer Technology Workgroup of the HIT Standards Committee. Brian serves on the Boards of HIMSS Oregon, DirectTrust, and Q-Life. Visit his blog and follow him on Twitter @Ahier.
At the recent Healthcare Think Tank, At the Crossroads: Technology and Transformation in Healthcare, sponsored by Dell, we had some very interesting discussions on a wide variety of topics. I will be highlighting some of the topics we covered in a few posts over the next couple months. At the first Think Tank three years […]
The National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) is an annual nationally representative survey of patient visits to office-based physicians that collects information on use of electronic health record (EHR). The latest NCHS Data Brief from CDC shows improvement in overall adoption of EHR’s this past year, […]
The future looks bright for the integrated specialty pharmacy model – for health systems, providers, and most importantly, for patients.
I joined the Glass Explorer Program and have started using Google Glass with a focus on finding medical uses for this type of wearable computing technology. While I believe that it is analytics capabilities that will allow us to realize the value of health information technology, the convergence of hardware and software combined with an […]