Addressing Industry Challenges: Continuity of Care
 With the connection of Amalga, which aggregates data across the New York-Presbyterian enterprise, and HealthVault, which allows patients to aggregate and share their data across the healthcare ecosystem, Microsoft has provided a unique opportunity for us to put our patients first by giving them their medical data, and to empower them to manage their healthcare.  - Aurelia Boyer RN, Chief Information Officer, New York-Presbyterian
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| The Challenge: | The ultimate goal is a world where every player in healthcare has seamless access to information, and data drives efficient, high-quality, evidence-based healthcare. However, the ability to use data even within the enterprise, much less outside the four walls, is still a challenge for most organizations today. Accelerating the need for data across the ecosystem is the need for "meaningful use" of electronic health records (EHRs) to qualify for EHR stimulus money under the HITECH act. A key criteria for meaningful use is the ability to exchange critical health data for improved care coordination. |
| The Need: | A dynamic health system that transforms how physicians provide care, individuals manage their own health, and healthcare organizations improve their quality and financial performance. Healthcare organizations require the ability to: | Drive the right health outcomes and payments. The health industry must be focused on lifelong wellness, and the information technology must support preventative care and innovation for delivering care in new, connected electronic ways. Achieve data liquidity. Health organizations should be able to easily access and explore their existing data to improve efficiency, decision making, quality, and value; analyze their operations holistically; and focus on continuous improvement. Connect and share data securely within and between health organizations. The secure electronic access to a lifetime of treatments, prescriptions, and tests will allow individuals and providers to make better medical decisions, reduce wasteful spending, and increase quality. Empower consumers to be stewards of their own health data. Consumers should have the ability to gather their health information from many sources, including applications, portals and devices; to store and manage that health information in a central location; and to share it with those they trust.
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| The Solution:A comprehensive set of solutions that help realize the vision to connect key stakeholders to the secure data they need. |
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