Amazon CEO Andy Jassy told HIMSS attendees “it’s kind of nutty” that his future grandchildren will look back on this era of healthcare as being shockingly behind the times, even as much of the discussion at HIMSS focused on progress: rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and new insights into social determinants of health and […]
According to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s (ONC) State of Interoperability among U.S. Non-federal Acute Care Hospitals in 2018 Report, released in March 2020, the use of traditional fax for data exchange continues to rise. In a recent article published in Healthcare IT Today, Consensus’s John Nebergall discusses how the […]
New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle and other metropolitan areas have received the majority of media coverage concerning the toll COVID-19 is taking on our healthcare system. This coverage largely ignores the fact that the virus is even more devastating to vulnerable rural hospitals struggling to care for patients during the pandemic. In this post, […]
J2 recently released Consensus, a digital interoperability system that connects healthcare organizations through the entire continuum of care. To help providers through these challenging times, we are offering the Consensus online record-retrieval service at no charge. Your organization will be able to quickly query for secure online patient records across […]
Health data exchange is essential to meaningful patient care. Providers must be able to leverage accurate and timely health information at the point of care to achieve improvements to the patient experience, population health, care costs, and provider satisfaction. Over the past decade, a few technologies have emerged from the pack that enable the sharing […]
If you’ve been responsible for healthcare IT for any period of time, you know federal regulators are continuously ramping up pressure on the industry to enableseamless exchange of patient data among all organizations across the continuum of care. You also know that over the years, both the government and private entities have rolled out a […]
