Patient Portals: Balancing Patient Engagement and Security
Sponsor: CommvaultPrimary topic: Privacy & SecurityTopic: Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Privacy & SecurityResource Central: White PapersExternal url:...
View Articleathenahealth lays off hundreds, reorganizes to be leaner
Cloud-based EHR vendor athenahealth confirmed plans to layoff 9 percent of its workforce on Thursday and that it is simplifying its structure to be leaner and more responsive.The company also noted in...
View ArticleEpic ranks high, Cerner falls short in latest emergency department...
Epic ranks at the top of enterprise vendors offering EDIS – Emergency Department Information Systems, according to a September 2017 report from research firm KLAS.KLAS points to Epic’s consistently...
View ArticleEnhanced patient experience earns Santa Clara Valley Medical Center EMRAM...
Santa Clara Valley Medical Center earned the Stage 7 designation of HIMSS Analytics Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model.Also known as EMRAM, HIMSS Analytics program recognizes hospitals that use...
View ArticleBush: Athenahealth cuts 9% of workforce, closes offices, sells jet in...
Athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush struck several belt-tightening notes Friday morning during the company’s third quarter call with analysts. The earnings call came after the company cut 9 percent of its...
View ArticleProviders lagging on 2015 Edition EHR certification, survey says
The eHealth Initiative published a new research uncovering the reality that only 9 percent of healthcare providers are currently compliant with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s...
View Article7 quotes from Jonathan Bush on athenahealth's 'painful' quarter
Athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush last week announced the company would cut 9 percent of its workforce and reduce spending by $115 million to put the recently besieged cloud-based company back on track....
View ArticleHalamka: Decision support, care management key to accelerating precision...
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center CIO John Halamka, MD, has written and presented often over the past few years about his wife Kathy's cancer treatment and the ways precision medicine techniques...
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Healthcare is swimming in data, but what to do with it?
BOSTON – The healthcare industry is amassing more data than at any time in history but much of it is running on top of legacy technology.“The average hospital generates 665 TB a year,” said John...
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It takes a lot more than analytics to make population health work
BOSTON – How can analytics help improve population health? Good data and smart use of information technology are important, said Tom Scornavacca, senior medical director, population health at UMass...
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Go figure: The key to big data is actually small data
BOSTON – To successfully leverage healthcare analytics, it might be time to break big data down into smaller increments to better transform the information into knowledge.“Small data will tell us more...
View ArticleSix Ways Hospitals Can Prepare for a Catastrophe
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View ArticleCerner EHR project for VA will take 7 to 8 years, Shulkin says
It will take 18 months for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to launch the new Cerner electronic health record and another seven to eight years to transition the whole legacy EHR system once the...
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Applying Machine Learning to Patient Records to Improve Clinical...
Author: IntelSponsor: IntelPrimary topic: Artificial IntelligenceTopic: Artificial IntelligenceElectronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Resource Central: Upcoming WebinarsExternal url:...
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Turning raw data into better health outcomes is no easy task
BOSTON – Though analytics technology is well-developed and widely deployed, putting those tools to work for better patient outcomes is still a big project as providers grapple with complex and...
View Article7 new members join CommonWell, bringing total to more than 70
From just six founding EHR vendors when it was launched four years ago, the CommonWell Health Alliance now has more than 70 member companies whose expertise ranges far and wide."It continues to astound...
View ArticleNew CRISPR version could make precision medicine even more precise
CRISPR-Cas9, the so-called "molecular scalpel" that enables the editing or deletion of entire genes, promises exciting new avenues for treatment.It's arguably true, at least so far, that CRISPR's "hype...
View ArticleRural hospitals are relying on simplified EHR systems to stay afloat
That rural hospitals are struggling isn’t exactly a secret. More than 80 rural facilities have closed since 2010, and recent research from iVantage Health Analytics found that 41 percent of them are...
View ArticleDrchrono debuts specialized EHR for urgent care practices
Drchrono, a vendor of EHR, practice management, medical billing and revenue cycle management applications for the iPad, iPhone and the web, has unveiled the drchrono UrgentCare EHR. The new EHR system...
View ArticleEpic go-live at UMass Memorial a masterclass in getting staff behind an EHR...
UMass Memorial Health Care CIO Tim Tarnowski says his system’s Oct. 1 Epic go-live could be a model for change management, calling it “the smoothest go-live that I’ve ever been a part of.” Tarnowski,...
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