Athenahealth may find Elliott Management its most promising suitor
Elliott Management may wind up buying athenahealth after its long and pressure-packed courtship, given that other potential buyers, including Cerner and UnitedHealthcare, are reportedly not interested,...
View ArticleA look inside Epic, Cerner and Allscripts app store programs
Major electronic health record systems vendors are pretty innovative companies when it comes to keeping their products up to date with the changing requirements of delivering healthcare at health...
View ArticleCerner President Zane Burke to step down this fall
Cerner President Zane Burke, who first joined the company in 1996 and held several executive roles there before being named president, will step down on Nov. 2.John Peterzalek, Cerner's executive vice...
View ArticleMachine learning helps UI Health Care reduce surgical site infection by 74%,...
Imagine knowing, in real time, whether a patient will suffer a surgical infection as a surgeon closes up a wound. That's the kind of clinical situation that machine learning is enabling at the...
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Policy Enablers and Barriers: Hear How Two HIMSS Davies Award Winners...
Author: HIMSS Learning CenterSponsor: HIMSSPrimary topic: Government & PolicyTopic: AnalyticsElectronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Government & PolicyResource Central: Upcoming WebinarsExternal...
View ArticleAlameda Health System hires Mark Amey as new CIO, citing Epic expertise
Oakland, California-based Alameda Health System has named its new chief information officer. Mark Amey will relocate to the Bay Area from San Diego, where he was most recently associate CIO at...
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HITECH, Compliance, and the Growth of the Ransomware Economy
Sponsor: CylancePrimary topic: Privacy & SecurityTopic: Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Privacy & SecurityResource Central: White PapersExternal url:...
View ArticleFormer Allscripts CEO Glen Tullman: The future of innovation is patient...
Glen Tullman has served as the CEO of a major EHR vendor and the founder of a startup app maker focused initially on diabetes.That background gives him a unique insight into the possibilities and...
View ArticleEHR interoperability for VA and DoD, who’s responsible? Lawmakers, officials...
The Interagency Program Office (IPO) has not fulfilled its legal mandate to be the single point of accountability between the Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs interoperability...
View ArticleElliott Management puts brakes on athenahealth acquisition, causing shares to...
The ongoing saga of athenahealth and Elliott Management continues. Shares of the cloud-based health IT company fell sharply Tuesday morning on news that the hedge fund – which has recently been seen as...
View ArticleSenate passes sweeping opioid response bill with eRx, EHR, PDMP provisions
With a rare near-unanimous vote, the United States Senate passed The Opioid Crisis Response Act of 2018 on Monday evening. It's a massive bill comprising a wide array of proposals drawn from five...
View ArticleVA will open bidding for VistA EHR support, maintenance
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs modified its request for information on Monday, with plans to open bidding for a vendor to maintain and support its legacy VistA EHR architecture and imaging...
View ArticleInteroperability needs an architecture in addition to APIs, HIMSS CTIO Steve...
Interoperability: There’s a lot happening right now. FHIR, as in Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources. Open APIs. Blue Button 2.0. Carequality and CommonWell reaching a milestone this summer in...
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Consumerism focus and global market insights are key to innovation
In his role as Applied Innovation Manager in the office of the Chief Technology & Innovation Officer at HIMSS, Ian Hoffberg has a front row seat for the dizzying change going on in healthcare...
View ArticleDuke Health earns HIMSS Davies Award with innovative approach to reducing...
The third major health system to win a HIMSS Davies Award over the past month is Durham, North Carolina-based Duke Health. Specifically, the award recognizes the health system for customizing its...
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At UCHealth, Rx decision support nudges physicians to prescribe recommended meds
THE PROBLEM UCHealth was having troubles with its prescription process – especially a wide variation in prescribing behaviors among providers, who often opted for medications that were not first-line...
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The Future of Medicine: Protecting Privacy Without Impacting Quality of Care
Sponsor: OktaPrimary topic: Privacy & SecurityTopic: Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Privacy & SecurityResource Central: Upcoming WebinarsExternal url:...
View ArticleWhat innovation looks like at a large academic medical center
For New Orleans-based Ochsner Health, innovation is an enterprise-wide effort."It's my job. We wake up every day and this is our mission – we're not getting pulled off on other short-term issues that...
View ArticleMaintaining data integrity during EHR migration
Nearly three years ago, PwC’s Health Research Institute dubbed 2016 the year of “merger mania” in healthcare. With so many shifts occurring across the industry, many health systems have looked to...
View ArticleChecklist: Moving innovation projects from pilot to production
So, you've got an innovation initiative of the ground. You've come up with a use case to tackle, secured executive support, scrounged together a budget, and have made some encouraging headway in...
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