Falls are preventable and can be considerably reduced if high risk patients are identified through screening and receive appropriate follow-up care. If your practice serves adults 65 and older, you should already be doing fall risk assessments. However, many doctors don’t due to time constraints. While time is limited at an appointment, it’s crucial for…
A number of HIT executives, policy makers and industry innovators are leading the digital disruption of healthcare. In the following list, Health Data Management editors profile some of these visionaries who are seeking new and better ways to use cutting-edge technology to improve patient care. Debi Willis and PatientLink’s team of HIT experts use technology…
While Health Level 7 International’s Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is still emerging as a mature standard, app developers have widely embraced HL7’s FHIR in many current use cases. Health IT vendors see FHIR as a critical component to solving the complex interoperability challenges that are confronting healthcare organizations. Ultimately, they view their respective efforts as…
When battling horrific diseases, you can’t always cure them, but you can help in the fight. This is what inspired Debi Willis, CEO and founder of PatientLink, to combine her personal experience and technical knowledge to create MyLinks. Throughout her own fight with cancer, she faced many delays in ordering medical records, test results and reports.…
Oklahoma City, OK – January 12, 2017 –PatientLink, an innovative software development company, was recently chosen as the first place winner in the The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)’s Consumer Health Data Aggregator Challenge for their new patient engagement application, MyLinks. The ONC’s Consumer Health Data Aggregator Challenge was intended to spur the development…
2017 will transform the way your practice approaches Medicare reimbursements and patient data. The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) doesn’t officially affect Medicare payments until 2019, but a lot is happening as the deadline approaches. Based on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed rule, 2017 will have a direct impact…
A Day in the Life of a Doctor Imagine walking into your office, preparing to see 20 patients that day, and knowing you have limited time with each of them. You want to be prepared for each patient; but in reality, you will fly from appointment to appointment with no time for a breather. For…
We are proud and honored to be recognized as Allscripts July App of the Month. The Allscripts Developer Program (ADP) provides health IT software companies (like PatientLink) an opportunity to assist medical professionals by integrating with their electronic health record (EHR) and practice management solutions. At the recent Allscripts Developer Summit, PatientLink was awarded the program’s Marketing…
Debi Willis, a software engineer and owner of PatientLink Enterprises Inc., has a passion to solve health care problems with technology. She believes that building a better communication platform to electronically connect patients with clinicians and research is the missing key to bring us into a new era of health care and wellness. Read more…
Audio interview with Debi Willis: