The HIE Blog

Continuing our review of Robert Connely’s predictions for the future of HIT, we look at what he describes as “emerging technologies that allow collaborations across systems and settings.” The frontier that health IT is tackling today is community collaboration. For a long time the focus of health IT development has been on the “setting” – the hospital or the physician office. Until now, it has been impossible to use technology to effectively follow the natural flow of how a patient’s care is delivered across the full spectrum, from one provider to another, to the lab, to the hospital, etc.Read the rest of this entry