Proposed Classification for Health Information Systems: Provider and Individual

Discussion about the LIS of the Future; Analytics as a Key Feature?). Such systems would change from classic, best-of-breed LIS's to systems that support descriptive, predictive, and diagnostic algorithms. By developing such LIS-A's, LIS companies may cede ground to the LIS's provided by large EHR vendors as part of their enterprise-wide offerings. 2.Individual (or personal) health systems (IHS's): These are systems designed primarily for consumers. I blogged recently about the Rally system of UnitedHealth Group that initially provided coaching and other health services (see: UnitedHealth Group to Launch Its Own Variant of an EHR in 2019). It's similar toApple Health which is an app that runs on iPhones and the Apple Watch. Analytics will be a major thrust in the consumer healthcare market and delivered via IHS's (see:The Future of the LIS: Reflections about Consumers Ordering Their Own Lab Tests) particularly when PHS/EHR clinical data can be downloaded by consumers from their EHR accounts. Apple is already providing such a feature for iPhones in collaboration with selected health systems (see:Apple Has Plans to Copy EHR Records to iPhones and Apple Watches).3.Hybrid health systems (HHS's): These would be systems such as the one being developed by UnitedHealth Group mentioned above that span physican office health systems (OHS's) and individual health systems. The advantage of such systems is that they fulfill the desir...
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