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Lauren Dubinsky, Senior Reporter | February 09, 2016
From the January/February 2016 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine
GE is currently investing in making their systems go through a journey from on-premise, to cloud-deployed to fully cloud-native. He believes that those are the three areas that we’ll see the industry go through.
Athenahealth offers a cloud-based EHR. With conventional EHRs, information is usually only able to be shared in the same physical location as the software and services, but with cloud-based EHRs like athenahealth’s, all of the software and clinical data is stored, shared and updated in the cloud. Cloud-based EHRs will also foster collaboration among patients’ care teams. “I think the opportunity of tomorrow is to unify that care team and make it easier for folks to work together across boundaries around a patient,” says Don Woodlock, general manager of cardiology IT at GE.
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At last year’s Radiological Society of North America meeting, GE showcased a product on its GE Health Cloud called Multi-Disciplinary Team Meetings. It allows for a virtual “tumor board meeting” with a pathologist, radiologist, surgeon and general practitioner. “I think as these systems become more collaborative, they’ll be more part of the social fabric,” says Zimmerman. “The patients are not as much a part of the [EHR] ecosystem as they probably should be. The term, 'patient engagement,' I think, will drive a lot more patient access and patient activity in the [EHRs] themselves.”
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