Healthcare Dashboards, Data, and FHIR

The following is a guest blog by Monica Stout from MedicaSoft.  We live in a dashboard society. We love our dashboards! We have mechanisms to track, analyze, and display all sorts of data at our fingertips any time of the day or night and everywhere we turn. We like it that way! Data is knowledge. Data is power. Data drives decisions. Data is king. But what about healthcare data? Specifically, what about YOUR healthcare data? Is it all available in one place where you can easily access it, analyze it, and make decisions about your health? Chances are, it’s not. Most likely, it’s locked up inside various EHRs and many tethered (read: connected to the provider, not shareable to other providers) patient portals you received access to when you visited your doctors for various appointments. In some cases, the information that is there might not be correct. In other cases, there might not be much data there at all. How are you supposed to act as an informed patient or caregiver when you don’t have your data or accurate data for those you are caring for? When health information is spread across multiple portals and the onus is on you to remember every login and password and what data is where for each of these portals, are you really using them effectively? Do you want to use them? It’s not very easy to connect the dots when the dots can’t be located because they’re in different places in varying degrees of completeness. How do we fix this? What steps need to be taken?...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: Digital Health Healthcare Healthcare Interoperability HealthCare IT Patient Portal PHR HIEs HIMSS HIMSS18 Medicasoft Monica Stout Patient Portal Replacement Patient Portals Source Type: blogs