Eric Andrew
Kristof

A longitudinal health record is a comprehensive summary of a person’s health information across time, organizations, and settings, organized around the patient rather than individual encounters or providers. This post explains how it differs from traditional records, how exchange networks, standards, and apps help assemble it, the challenges of matching and reconciling data, and nursing roles.

Gap analysis compares an organization’s current state with a desired future state to identify the differences and the actions needed to close them. This post explains how gap analysis works, its uses in EHR selection and implementation, workflow redesign, cybersecurity and compliance programs, and maturity assessments, common pitfalls, and the role nurses play.

Electronic data interchange (EDI) is the standardized electronic exchange of business documents between organizations. In healthcare, EDI uses X12 and NCPDP standards adopted under HIPAA for claims, eligibility, remittance, prior authorization, and enrollment. This post explains key transactions, clearinghouses, operating rules, the shift toward FHIR for some processes, and nursing impacts.