Enabling Technologies

Enabling technologies are products and processes that complement more established techniques based on the electronic health record by broadening and easing the process of data collection. Often, these technologies are used to provide more effective means of communication among patients and providers, collect data from home and body sensors, and store data in more accessible ways, all seeking to improve the process or performance of our healthcare system. These include a host of devices and processes that connect providers, connect patients to providers, and add data outside the healthcare enterprise to the personal health record. This has the promise of further improving healthcare.