Allscripts inks partnership with Lyft as healthcare ridesharing race heats up
Healthcare IT company Allscripts and rideshare provider Lyft have partnered to provide non-emergency transportation for people who need to get to medical appointments, the companies announced Monday at...
View ArticleChopra's message: Open up data, share innovative approaches
LAS VEGAS – Healthcare is in need of a culture change when it comes to sharing data, Aneesh Chopra, president of NavHealth and former U.S. chief technology officer under President Barack Obama, said...
View ArticleHealthcare CIOs have blockchain, AI on their minds
LAS VEGAS – Healthcare CIOs have a lot to think about this year, attendees at the CHIME CIO Forum at HIMSS18 on Monday showed.James W. Brady, Area CIO at Kaiser Permanente, Kaiser is expanding its...
View Article'Digital Doctor' Robert Wachter changes his tune, sees real progress in...
LAS VEGAS – Robert Wachter, MD, is not nearly as grumpy as he used to be about EHRs. At least that's what he told the standing-room-only crowd at the CHIME CIO Forum at HIMSS18 on Monday.Wachter is...
View ArticleThe secret to healthcare business success? Listen to the doctors
LAS VEGAS - It was dire stat. Physician satisfaction was 1 percent at Lafayette General Health in Lafayette, Louisiana. But after a years-long project to improve physician satisfaction, the health...
View ArticleEric Schmidt lays out formula for healthcare innovation
LAS VEGAS -- Eric Schmidt delivered a hearty dose of optimism Monday evening in the HIMSS18 opening keynote.“A revolution has been happening in my industry. Scale changes the rules, scale changes...
View ArticleCerner, Salesforce to collaborate; Google showcases new Cloud Healthcare API
Health IT giant Cerner announced Monday at HIMSS18 a new collaboration with Salesforce, a customer relationship management technology vendor. Cerner is extending its population health and clinical and...
View ArticleCerner's new CEO is on a listening tour
LAS VEGAS – Brent Shafer, who took the reins at EHR giant Cerner last January after a 12-year stint as CEO of Phillips, is not only aware but also respectful, of the fact that he is filling big shoes...
View ArticleHow Henry Ford redefined their IT operations and won a Davies for it
“Every great story starts with a tipping point. You have to have something that made you make a Herculean change.”For Detroit’s Davies Award-winning Henry Ford Health System, that came around 2009 as...
View ArticleJudy Faulkner comes to HIMSS18 with CHRs on her mind
Last year about this time, Epic Systems founder and CEO Judy Faulkner announced at HIMSS17 she would create two smaller EHRs for those healthcare enterprises that did not need the full-blown version of...
View ArticleeClinicalWorks CEO Girish Navani: Our next EHR will be like a Bloomberg Terminal
LAS VEGAS – While eClinicalWorks is demonstrating its latest cloud-based EHR and new offerings for inpatient settings at HIMSS18, CEO Girish Navani gave a glimpse of the forthcoming iteration — and the...
View ArticleONC chief Donald Rucker lays out his agency's very full plate
LAS VEGAS – In an evening session at HIMSS18 on Tuesday, National Coordinator for Health IT Donald Rucker, MD, sat down for a candid talk about an array of issues related to federal healthcare policy,...
View ArticleMarilyn Tavenner says AHIP stands behind CMS plans for better interoperability
LAS VEGAS – America’s Health Insurance Plans CEO Marilyn Tavenner on Tuesday called on all insurers to give patients their claims data electronically.“I totally agree patients should have access,”...
View ArticleHIMSS Immunization Integration Program: Cerner, six other tools now certified
The HIMSS Immunization Integration Program on Wednesday announced that five health IT products have met its criteria.Those are Cerner’s FirstNet and PowerChart, Glenwood Systems’ GlaceEMR,...
View ArticleCHIO shares secrets to sustainable population health
LAS VEGAS – "I could ask the audience what population health is, and I would probably get 100 different answers," said Terri H. Steinberg, chief health information officer and VP of population health...
View ArticleMedsphere partners with Amazon Web Services, moves CareVue EHR to the cloud
LAS VEGAS – Medsphere Systems is moving its CareVue electronic health record to Amazon Web Services' cloud infrastructure, the company announced at HIMSS18 on Wednesday.The open-source,...
View ArticlePointClickCare launches developer program aimed at LTPAC apps
LAS VEGAS – PointClickCare Technologies, which develops software-as-a-service for long-term and post-acute care providers, announced a new program at HIMSS18 on Thursday designed to give software...
View ArticleHIMSS EHR Association tackles TEFCA, opioid response, usability and safety
LAS VEGAS – Members of the HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association met at HIMSS18 on Thursday, and offered a briefing on some of the big issues its vendor members are focusing on this year so...
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Improving Patient Matching in your EHR: A Case Study
Author: VeratoSponsor: VeratoPrimary topic: Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Topic: Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)InteroperabilityResource Central: Upcoming WebinarsExternal url:...
View ArticleClinical systems tech companies unwrap new applications at HIMSS18
Validic, a health data connectivity systems vendor, launched at HIMSS18 Validic Impact, a remote monitoring platform that enables remote care capabilities for existing clinical systems. For providers,...
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