What is Health Level 7 (HL7)?
Definition: A standard interface between hospital information systems. The HL7 standard defines the format for interchange of text files between health care databases.
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Check out this interesting story from
"Medicare will now pay for nursing home patients to
be treated by telemedicine"
If you have a family member or love one in a nursing home this story would be of interest to you.
Definition: Telemedicine is often used interchangeably with telehealth, however, the term telemedicine generally implies a physician mediated interaction with patients, and is used more in the USA.
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It's very clear that the President-elect and his new health care team understands the need to use technology to help improve the quality of our nation's health care system.
Check out:
Obama ups the ante for national health IT
This month in
The company behind this
service, American Well, plans to expand into other states as well. Check out this article on their efforts in
Doctors Will Make Web Calls
in
Aloha Doc! :-)
