Amazon AWS S3 goes down, disrupting healthcare sites and apps
On Tuesday afternoon, Amazon's S3 cloud-based hosting service experienced outages that caused a number of major websites and apps – including many across healthcare – to stop working optimally.AWS...
View ArticleGAO takes HHS to task for poor planning on EHRs for long-term care
The Government Accountability Office is urging the Department of Health and Human Services to step up its efforts to encourage the use of EHRs in long-term care facilities, the better to boost the...
View ArticleCVS to deploy Epic EHR across its chronic care management programs
CVS has tapped Epic Systems as the electronic health record system for CVS Specialty's care management programs for complex and chronic conditions, the company announced on March 3.CVS launched Epic at...
View ArticleMercy partners with Tahoe Forest Health System for Epic implementation
Mercy Technology Services, the IT arm of the Catholic health system, is partnering with Tahoe Forest Health System to deploy an Epic electronic health record system at its locations in California and...
View ArticleThe HCI Group to be acquired by Indian IT firm Tech Mahindra
The HCI Group, which works with major providers on end-to-end implementation of electronic health record systems, offering support for Epic, Cerner and others, will be acquired by Tech Mahindra in a...
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Payment fraud generates huge financial impacts on health delivery organizations
The cost of payment fraudAt its core, payment fraud is a byproduct of medical identity theft. Individuals either misrepresent their identities to receive care, or they provide proper identification but...
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The Impact of a Single Patient Identifier on Care Delivery
Author: Lenovo HealthSponsor: Lenovo HealthPrimary topic: Patient EngagementTopic: EHRsElectronic Health RecordsPatient EngagementResource Central: White PapersExternal url:...
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HIMSS17 roundup: Emerging technologies, reality check on ACA repeal, Dan...
The HIMSS17 conference in Orlando late last month spanned the gamut of technology topics — from artificial intelligence to more open EHRs to population health and security, among others. IBM CEO Ginni...
View ArticlePalmetto Health expands revenue cycle management with Cerner
Columbia, S.C.-based Palmetto Health has called on health IT giant Cerner to expand the health system’s Millennium Revenue Cycle technology across four of its acute care facilities.The rollout will...
View ArticleHIE use leads to shorter lengths of hospital stay, lower chance of ED...
Hospitals in New York are finding big quality and efficiency gains thanks to the ability to access patient EHR data via a regional health information exchange.A new study just released by HealthlinkNY,...
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Allscripts, Cerner, Epic signal more open EHRs ahead
Top executives at three electronic health record companies — Allscripts, Cerner and Epic — revealed that they're working to make their EHRs more open.That means embracing APIs as a means to enable...
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VA will move from VistA to a commercial EHR, secretary says
VA Secretary David Shulkin, MD, told House Committee on Veterans Affairs' members on March 8 that the VA would be moving to a commercial electronic health record system."I've come to the conclusion...
View ArticlePhysicians and Cybersecurity Risk
Sponsor: AT&TPrimary topic: Privacy & SecurityTopic: EHRsElectronic Health RecordsPrivacy & SecurityResource Central: White PapersExternal url:...
View ArticleGoogle's DeepMind developing blockchain-like tech to track health data
DeepMind, the Google-owned artificial intelligence company, is developing a new technology similar to blockchain for secure tracking of patient health data.In a blog post, London-based DeepMind said...
View ArticleHospital datacenters: Extinct in 5 years?
Every time Carolinas HealthCare System gets rid of server or storage hardware, someone in the IT department takes out a roll of red tape. They cut off two pieces and lay those down on the floor in the...
View ArticleEpic says App Orchard now open for business
Epic announced with little fanfare that its App Orchard is now officially open for business. And the EHR vendor is inviting third-party developers to highlight their best work, not only with FHIR, but...
View ArticleTop 10 patient safety concerns for 2017, according to ECRI
Health information technology holds enormous potential for improving patient safety, but only when implemented and used correctly. A new study from ECRI Institute spotlights EHR information management...
View Article5 big challenges to utilizing genomic data for precision medicine
Precision medicine holds the key to better health. And as the industry moves more toward value-based care, its evidence-based principles can help providers ease into the transition."It's a big step to...
View ArticleFHIR holds big promise for interoperability, but will need to coexist with...
Once again this year, HL7's FHIR specification was a hot topic at HIMSS17, a burning issue discussed ardently across the show floor. (Our apologies, but heat- and flame-related puns seem to be required...
View ArticleEpic, Nuance embed AI into EHR for clinical documentation improvement
Nuance Communications and Epic are partnering to integrate the artificial intelligence capabilities of Nuance's computer-assisted physician documentation tool into the Epic NoteReader module for...
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