mHealth News July 1, 2015
One of the hot trends is the integration of patient-facing data into the electronic medical record. From Epic’s new app store to Validic’s partnerships with Cerner and athenahealth (to name just a few), EMR platforms are evolving to accept health and wellness data from devices to better define a patient’s profile outside the medical encounter.
“It’s not just physician documentation any more,” says Girish Navani of eClinicalWorks. “The patient is part of that equation … but there have to be filters.”
[See also: EHRs and wearables – their time has come?]
Does this mean the EMR is becoming obsolete? Or is it evolving into an EHR?
“What is the system of record?” asks Mandira Singh, senior business development...