CEO of medical informatics group steps down
Douglas Fridsma, CEO of the American Medical Informatics Association, resigned on January 1. He had led the organization for five years.
OpenNotes and AMIA join forces to improve patient access to health records
Through the new collaboration, which was announced during this year's AMIA Annual Symposium, OpenNotes and the American Medical Informatics Association want to give patients better access to their provider's clinical notes.
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Improving Medical Billing to Cut Payment Bottlenecks
Yusuf Qasim, President of Payments Optimization at Zelis, discussed how the company is transforming healthcare payments from a fragmented, patchwork system into a modern, digital infrastructure.
AMA launches initiative focused on organizing health data
The American Medical Association has founded the Integrated Health Model Initiative, a collaborative that brings the healthcare and technology sectors together around a shared data model. Organizations such as Cerner and IBM have already signed on as participants.
Medical informatics pros offer prescriptions to improve EHRs
Clinical notes take a lot of time and often are not all that effective in capturing the patient story.
New NLM chief wants to focus on data, consumer friendliness
Patricia Flatley Brennan officially took the reins of the National Library of Medicine just two months ago, and already the veteran nursing informatics specialist is putting her stamp on the federal agency.
AMIA panel: ResearchKit maturing, ResearchStack catching up
What the two platforms are doing are opening up components of clinical trial recruitment, data collection and participant retention to wide audiences of people with specific healthcare conditions.
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The Definitive Guide to Medical Billing Outsourcing: 5 Top Companies
In today’s healthcare landscape, your choice of medical billing partner directly impacts your bottom line. What are the best medical billing outsourcing companies, and which one is right for you?
What’s on the minds of medical informatics leaders?
"A clinician can influence one patient. An informatician can influence hundreds of thousands."
This week on MedHeads: AMIA and what’s next with digital health and patient engagement
Progress in tackling patient engagement and digital health growth continue, and Neil Versel shares what insights came out of this year's AMIA conference.
Study: Digital health empowers diabetes patients
A three-month experiment in Canada with bimonthly text messages, a Web portal and home-based medical devices produced an average weight decrease of 3.5 pounds and a mean reduction in hemoglobin A1c levels from 7.41 to 6.77 percent in Type 2 diabetics.
Wachter: Digital health is now the norm, but it needs work
"In the last five years, we have gone from a primarily analog business to a primarily digital business," Dr. Robert Wachter said at AMIA 2015.
The Human Algorithm: What AI Can’t Replace in Pharma Engagement
At a time when AI is reshaping pharma, Reverba Global CEO Cheryl Lubbert explained in an interview why empathy, context, and ethics still require a human touch.
Twitter helps shed light on gender identity in healthcare
What do people who consider themselves something other than fully male or female call themselves? That's not so easy, as a presenter at AMIA demonstrated.
Study: PAs, NPs do more e-prescribing in pediatric ED
Perhaps it's workflow, perhaps it's culture, perhaps it's just the nature of the setting, but physician assistants and nurse practitioners have been ?e-prescribing? ?at a higher rate than physicians in the ED of Children's National Health System in Washington, D.C.
App Exchange? Nope, Epic’s new store is the App Orchard
It's a name with juice, and perhaps more than a little hint of Apple. But will it bear fruit for the EHR vendor?
Brigham and Women’s tries microblogging for care continuity
A Brigham hospitalist discussed the program Monday at the American Medical Informatics Association annual symposium.
AMIA: Opening up records helps acute patient engagement, too
Based on early research presented Monday at the American Medical Informatics Association annual symposium, clinicians initially were apprehensive about opening up so much information to their patients, but most eventually came around to see the benefits of this kind of patient engagement.