“The cloud is crucial to many initiatives in healthcare, including value-based care, big data and patient engagement. CIOs recognize the importance of cloud computing and embrace it. Healthcare has finally abandoned fear of the cloud and now realizes the value… Read more
Author: Peter Melrose
CHARTSaaS RA-compliant IT solution would assist small & specialty hospitals
“If the rate of electronic health record adoption continues at its current pace, all hospitals in the country should have adopted EHRs [electronic health record systems} in the next four years, according to a new study. Researchers found that 80.5%… Read more
CHARTSaaS IT facilitates transformative process automation
“Question: What are the eminent opportunities for blockchain in healthcare? Aaron Symanski: Blockchain is proving its value every minute of every day. While it’s currently used in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, there are additional industries creating businesses utilizing blockchain, mainly… Read more
CHARTSaaS RA IT facilitates active and team-based learning
“Most physicians today readily acknowledge that the biomedical information available exceeds what one person can learn and retain. Questions remain, however, regarding how much content students must learn, whether that learning is best done in traditional classroom settings, and what… Read more
CHARTSaaS RA enables Dr. Gawande's vision of modern medical practice
“Here are six insights from Dr. Gawande. 1. On using artificial intelligence to diagnosis patients: ‘[U.S. Healthcare] is massively far [from using AI in the diagnosis process] … people imagine [the diagnosis process as] people [coming] to you with a… Read more
Mitigating sepsis with a CHARTSaaS RA-compliant IT solution
“Increased awareness, early presentation to a health care facility or early recognition of health care–associated sepsis, rapid administration of appropriate antibiotics, and urgent treatment according to locally developed guidelines can significantly reduce deaths from sepsis. Since such measures have reduced… Read more
CHARTSaaS RA-compliant IT solution can enable "hospital of the future"
“Q: How is the hospital of the future different from a typical hospital today? … The hospital of the future seeks to deliver high quality efficient care; that goal doesn’t change. However, new tools and methods are making it possible… Read more
CHARTSaaS RA-compliant IT solution addresses physician EHR frustrations
“Here are four frustrations physicians have with EHRs. 1. Lloyd Minor, MD, dean of Stanford (Calf.) University Medical School, told KQED Science EHRs primarily serve as a documentation tool for billing and quality reporting, rather than as a tool to… Read more
CHARTSaaS RA-compliant IT solution includes affordable analytics
“AI [artificial intelligence] is the New Electricity.…Our checks confirm that a wide range of organizations are exploring incorporating AI in their business, mostly using Machine and Deep Learning for speech and image recognition applications. …But Competitive Environment Doesn’t Favor IBM…. Read more
CHARTSaaS RA-compliant IT supports Dr.Halamka's 2017 HIT assessment
“What can we say about the IT policy direction of the US right now? 1. There seems to be great consensus that all stakeholders need to focus on enhancing interoperability technology and policy in support of care coordination, population health,… Read more