Tag Archives: health IT

Interoperability Can Help Long-Term Care Bridge the Information Divide

By | September 26, 2025
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Interoperability in healthcare is achieved when all providers are connected and able to securely share patient information. While hospitals and physician practices continue to make progress—supported by federal incentives to implement electronic health record (EHR) systems—long-term and post-acute care (LTPAC) providers often remain at the margins. LTPAC Providers Include: Skilled nursing facilities (SNF) Nursing homes… Read More »

Using Telehealth to Deliver Care to Patients When and Where They Need It

By | September 24, 2019
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Many issues affect the delivery of care to patients who are most in need. Particularly, those who live in rural areas or those who need specialized care may not have access to the care they need.  Patients whose care transitions across acute care and long-term/post-acute care (LTPAC) settings may have additional challenges in receiving coordinated… Read More »

New methods in risk modeling: does adding EHR data improve predictions?

By | July 20, 2017
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One of the challenges in delivering efficient medical care is identifying people who are at risk of a negative outcome, so we can focus our efforts on screening and treating those at elevated risk. We do this in individual face-to-face encounters through clinical, diagnostic processes: taking a patient’s history, performing a physical examination, recording signs… Read More »