Healthcare Technology Landscape
by Robert Colloca
1. Mobile Health Apps
1.1. Provides patients with medication information and preventive healthcare education. Increases medication adherence and drives positive behaviors
2. ePrescribing
2.1. Technology framework that allows physicians and other medical practitioners to write and send prescriptions to a participating pharmacy electronically instead of using handwritten or faxed notes or calling in prescriptions
3. Medical Billing
3.1. Automates processing and sending payments. Easy of coding and assembling medical claims
4. Patient Scheduling
4.1. Appointment scheduling software. Allows patients to login to the portal, view their previous treatments, receive an alert when it’s time to schedule an appointment
5. Patient Portal
5.1. Patient access to medical records. Allow a patient access to just about everything in an EMR and EHR, including their history, treatments & medications
6. Electronic Health Record (EHR)
6.1. Real-time, patient-centered records that make information available instantly and securely to authorized users. Contain a patient’s medical history, diagnoses, medications, treatment plans, immunization dates, allergies, radiology images, and laboratory and test results. Allow access to evidence-based tools that providers can use to make decisions about a patient’s care
7. Electronic Medical Record (EMR)
7.1. Documents patient's medical history, tracks data over time, identifies patients for visits & screenings, monitors patients against health related parameters, improvement of overall care
8. Practice Management
8.1. Automates activities such as patient care, scheduling, billing & claims processing
