Epic to integrate Nuance AI virtual assistant into EHR
Nuance Communications and EHR giant Epic have partnered to integrate the voice and language tool vendor’s AI-powered virtual assistant into the EHR, the companies announced at HIMSS18.Nuance launched...
View ArticleVA switch to Cerner EHR too big an opportunity not to get right, Secretary...
LAS VEGAS -- In his keynote speech at HIMSS18 on Friday, U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin, MD, confessed: "I always believed I would be the last doctor in America to go an electronic...
View ArticlePost-Acute Care Gaps: Overcoming Providers' Challenges
Sponsor: CQuencePrimary topic: Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Topic: Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Resource Central: White PapersExternal url:...
View ArticleAthenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush shares his evolving dream of innovation
Athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush said the company he founded with former US CTO and advisor to President Barack Obama Todd Park began with bad software. That’s right. “We literally built a company...
View ArticleHIMSS18 takeaway: Big energy for new innovation, but many old hurdles still...
The concept of a "post-EHR" era is one that's been explored – on this website, at least– since the beginning of 2014, if not earlier. Four years later, an action-packed week spent at HIMSS18 offers...
View ArticleNext up for EHRs: Vendors adding artificial intelligence into the workflow
Artificial intelligence and machine learning permeated HIMSS18 such that the dynamic duo was just about everywhere in Las Vegas last week.From expected experts such as long-time Google executive Eric...
View ArticleWith David Shulkin under fire, what's next for the VA's EHR modernization?
Rumors have been swirling for the past few weeks of agency infighting at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and reports have speculated that not all are happy with the leadership of VA Secretary...
View ArticleUCSF researchers take issue with Epic's 'CHR' definition, offer alternate...
First, it was called an EMR – an electronic medical record, meant to document the patient encounter at the point of care. Then, of course, the nomenclature began to change, with more and more experts...
View ArticleShulkin doubles-down on EHR modernization as price tag swells
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, MD, has been under fire by the Trump administration for more than a month, but the negative headlines haven’t stopped Shulkin from...
View ArticleHeard on HIMSS TV: Thought leaders talk about the state of the industry today
HIMSS TV debuted on March 6 in Las Vegas. Speakers for the inaugural broadcast included James Madara, MD, of the American Medical Association, David Harlow from the The Harlow Group, Nick van Terheyden...
View ArticleBiden takes issue with Trump administration's interoperability plans
A new commentary from former Vice President Joe Biden says interoperability roadblocks have been standing for far too long – and that the Trump administration's current plans to fix the problem are...
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Allina CIO on how partnerships with Health Catalyst and Aetna help it advance...
Allina Health is amid a unique and pioneering partnership with Health Catalyst and another with insurer Aetna to drive analytics and population health management initiatives. It's been three years, in...
View ArticleIntermountain Healthcare building 'GeneRosity Registry,' a global DNA...
Intermountain Healthcare announced plans to build a genetic repository and populate it with unprocessed genetic data from companies such as 23andMe, AncestryDNA and MyHeritage that consumers will...
View ArticleVA Secretary Shulkin taps UPMC exec to lead agency’s open API project
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs named Rasu Shrestha, MD, chief innovation officer of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, as leader of the agency’s open API pledge.Earlier this month at...
View ArticleUpdate: Trump signs spending bill that boosts budgets for HHS, NIH and CDC,...
President Trump on Friday signed the spending bill to fund the government. After threatening a veto, Trump moved forward with the law that includes bigger budgets for a number of health agencies than...
View ArticleHackensack Meridian advances behavioral health partnership with Carrier Clinic
New Jersey-based Hackensack MeridianHealth and Carrier Clinic both signed a letter of intent to explore ways to join forces on behavior health. The letter of intent starts the process that would create...
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FHIR and Open APIs are here to stay - but are they ready for prime time?
What is an application programming interface? One of the more evocative definitions in recent memory comes, of all places, from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs:"Think of an API as a server in a...
View ArticleWhite House says Trump has confidence in Shulkin 'at this point in time'
President Donald Trump still has confidence in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, MD, despite claims Shulkin could be out as early as some point this week, according to...
View ArticleConcertoHealth replaces 73% of face-to-face visits with e-consults
Since October 2016, when it started using a new telehealth technology, ConcertoHealth has seen 73 percent of its new e-consults replace the need for patients to see specialists face-to-face.Further,...
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A look inside the patient safety work Phoenix Children's is doing with...
Phoenix Children's Hospital Chief Information Officer David Higginson has spent the past several years putting an intense focus on patient safety, using Allscripts technology to innovate new tools and...
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