Healthcare DIVE February 9, 2017
Potential trends include improved natural language processing, use of telehealth, enhanced clinical decision support, and more mobile use.
While there is still plenty of room for improving the usability of electronic health records (EHRs) and making them more affordable for care providers, experts are trying to get folks to focus on their future potential. The barriers to EHR implementation and interoperability are slowly coming down and once they do, vendors will start looking to add more functionalities to the systems.
It’s hard to predict which new capabilities will catch on, but potential trends include improved natural language processing, use of telehealth, enhanced clinical decision support, more mobile use, and remote monitoring.
What EHRs could look like with new capabilities
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