Healthcare IT News April 4, 2017
Tom Sullivan

But HIMSS Analytics director Brendan Fitzgerald says you do need a core set of tech tools to get the job done.

While electronic health records are the most common tool healthcare entities are implementing to enable population health management programs, there are other technologies proving critical as well.

“A wide swath of technologies are being used,” HIMSS Analytics research director Brendan FitzGerald said at the Pop Health Forum in Boston Tuesday.

FitzGerald explained that EHRs are top of mind, followed by patient portals and patient engagement tools. The fourth most popular is manual care management.

Others include data aggregation software, health information exchange products, as well as business intelligence and analytics programs.

FitzGerald shared results from HIMSS Analytics second...

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Topics: Analytics, EMR / EHR, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, HIE (Interoperability), Medicare, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Physician, Population Health Mgmt, Primary care, Provider
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