Many physicians want to maintain their independence, but they face cost pressures and administrative burdens that doctors who work in managed-care systems are shielded from. This means it’s getting tougher every year to run an independent practice. Diagnosing illness and prescribing a course of treatment is enough of a challenge…

Added Peek at the Utility of Centralized in Conjunction with a Robust Decentralized Medical Practice Systems — This article was originally published in Data Driven Investor Blockchain is a relatively novel decentralized or distributed data ledger system. Instead of banking health information in a single database, blockchain stores it in a chain of data blocks called nods. It wasn't too long ago I published a piece titled…

Patient Engagement based on Corporate Terms is Flawed. — Providing medical care to a patient has always been a journey between a physician or healer and the Patient. Like many other voyages, medical care has one or more partakers onboard. Also, as in different journies, medical care comes with a driver or leader. …

In a recent publication, National Institute of Health (NIH) announced launching an initiative called “All of Us program”. This highlights the first of a kind move by the institution towards the personalization of medicine. Although it contains a few controversies, still the more interesting is their pick of population target…

“If we want to develop an electronic health record so that it is the true reflection of patients as they flow through care, then we should not take no for…

“The collective approach to unify patient data under “one Electronic Health Record for nation” as the substitute for true interoperability is not only absurd but also is suggestive of disregard…

It’s time for a genuinely unified electronic health record system that combines data from various medical providers controlled by the patient. That concept is a matter of practicality today. It’s a vision that can only be comprehended using fully interoperable and decentralized health-record technologies. Today, hospitals and health systems control…

But, only a few EHRs were designed to enhance patient care — or flat fulfill the needs of medical doctors — Electronic health record usability points to the later technology’s standing to drive medical practices efficiently and conveniently. It is merely applied to the technology that offers user experiences that align with that particular industry’s professional needs. Most current Electronic health records (EHR) lack usability for clinicians. That is because the…

Despite the National provisions Worldwide to facilitate a user-centered format and process to develop, adapt, Clinicians still strive with the Usability of their Electronic Health Record (EHR) Maintenance — Despite all the workflows’ training and automation, clinicians are perpetually burning out by starting to keep up with the high regulatory burden, not to mention facility-specific configuration, customization, and training.

A Practical Approach toward Decentralized, Secured Medical Records while Sustaining Scalability — Blockchain technology or a decentralized distributed digital ledger system (Figure 1) is a configuration that stores transactional records, known as the blocks. It merely holds the data in many databases, known as the "chain," in a network connected through peer-to-peer nodes. It contrasts with the traditional centralized databases that store…

“The existing validation of most common Electronic Health Records (EHR) is essentially performed through the business and billing branch of the medical practice, hence lacking thorough undertaking tenacity of the…

Patients frequently have one complaint that when they move or switch from one healthcare provider to another, their new doctor does not have easy access to their entire medical history. …

The Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Records and value-based Reimbursement demands unswerving Human Participation — According to the American medical association report, only 49.1% of its 3,500 national survey respondents worked in private practice as of fall 2020, dropping from the 54% reported in 2018. It is the most significant shift the AMA has observed since 2012. It’s also the first time the proportion has…

A closer look at the Paradoxical upshot of Electronic Health Records (EHR) on Physician Practice Efficiency Value-based or merit-based reimbursement is the payment model for medical services that are gradually replacing the conventional fee-for-service standard for payers and healthcare companies. …