Fresh perspectives on clinical terminologies, code mapping, and patient insights from the experts at IMO.
When surgical schedulers don’t have the right clinical terminologies built into their EHR workflows, small inefficiencies – like case delays or preference card errors – quickly add up. And they’re not just frustrating in the operating room, they also wreak havoc on optimal financial return.
Most of us know that interoperability in healthcare is a challenge, but sharing one specific type of healthcare information – clinical laboratory data – is particularly difficult. For more on why this type of clinical documentation can turn into such a headache, check out the blog below.
The fact that the letters IMO don’t just stand for Intelligent Medical Objects isn’t lost on this healthcare data enablement company. Indeed, we believe it’s high time IMO embraced our text-slang status and we’re doing just that with In My Opinion, an Ideas series featuring Q&As with IMO employees. The Client Services department’s Kailee Lara takes the July spotlight.
In a recent interview on the Modern CTO podcast, hosted by Joel Beasley, our COO Ivana Naeymi-Rad explains how IMO improves data quality in healthcare and offers a bold approach to handling imposter syndrome.
For unvaccinated individuals – who make up over half the country – a return to normal may be one of the most unsafe times of the pandemic. What’s more, it’s challenging to know who exactly is at the highest risk for getting the virus or being hospitalized once ill. That’s why value sets continue to be an important tool in the fight against COVID-19.
Memes, blogs, and webinars – oh my! There are endless opportunities to support clinicians as they tackle the issues that make their medical problem lists problematic. Continue reading for resources to help make your problem list work for you, not against you.
When your team’s clinical workflows don’t work for them, a cascade of problems can quickly emerge. Whether indirectly – like as a result of clinician health IT burnout – or through direct revenue loss, poorly designed EHR workflows decrease your financial return in countless ways. Not convinced? IMO’s new value calculator is ready to show you otherwise.
Providing patient care – and understanding the resulting clinical data – is no longer a responsibility isolated to the primary provider. Today, medicine is a team effort involving multiple clinicians, immediate family members, and other healthcare professionals. Given this, many ask how the EHR can adapt to act as a communication medium for the modern patient’s care team.
IMO is proud to announce our partnership with the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF). MMRF will leverage IMO Precision Normalize, a product that standardizes inconsistent diagnosis, procedure, medication, and lab data from diverse systems into common, clinically validated terminology.
The fact that the letters IMO don’t just stand for Intelligent Medical Objects isn’t lost on this healthcare data enablement company. Indeed, we believe it’s high time IMO embraced our text-slang status and we’re doing just that with In My Opinion, an Ideas series featuring Q&As with IMO employees. The Enterprise IT team’s Dan Tyner takes the June spotlight.
Health information exchanges (HIEs) are key players in the goal of streamlining initiatives for interoperability in healthcare. But as the number of sources of patient data grows, standardizing information often requires the help of a normalization solution.
Creating a certifiable vaccine card for COVID-19 within the US is a complicated process. But taking these passes worldwide presents a whole new set of factors to consider. In part two of our digital health pass series, we take a look at some of the additional struggles behind creating an international certification standard.
