Why effective tech must be usable at the patient bedside
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View ArticleNew app aims to bring Google Glass back to life, gives docs hands-free EHR
Contrary to what some have said, “Google Glass is not dead,” according to EHR consultant Carl Osborne, creator of the app seeCOLe (short for, see Clinical data On Lens).The seeCOLe app — worn with...
View ArticleHow Banner Health Network is managing interoperability with 30-plus EHRs
Banner Health Network, with 5,000 affiliated physicians and 15 hospitals in the Phoenix area, is large and complex. Its accountable care and population health management efforts require lots of high...
View ArticleUCLA Health wins HIMSS Davies for innovations in depression treatment
UCLA Health has earned a HIMSS Davies Award for its comprehensive efforts rethink the way it uses information and technology to screen for depression in primary care patients.WHY IT MATTERS In addition...
View ArticleDrChrono partners with CoverMyMeds for prior authorization, price transparency
DrChrono, the developer of cloud-based electronic health record, practice management and medical billing tools, has announced an expanded partnership with CoverMyMeds, which makes software to help...
View ArticleAHIMA, Artifact Health partner on query streamlining platform
The American Health Information Management Association and Artifact Health have partnered to maintain a library of HIPAA-compliant physician query templates on Artifact’s cloud-based platform.WHY IT...
View ArticleEHR challenges, information overload often lead to staff workarounds
While the benefits of electronic health records have been widely touted, and EHRs are now ubiquitous across hospitals in the United States, a study of a major teaching hospital in New England indicated...
View ArticleWhat healthcare CIOs say they're focused on for 2019
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, in partnership with LexisNexis Risk Solutions, recently asked some of its chief information officer members what they're focusing on,...
View ArticlePointClickCare acquires QuickMAR, expanding offerings for seniors and LTPAC
In yet another example of how the health IT industry is moving to create one-stop-shops for technology services, PointClickCare Technologies, provider of cloud-based software for the long-term,...
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EHR tool boosts clinical research participation for Medical University of...
As clinical research protocols increase in complexity and the list of inclusion and exclusion criteria a patient must meet to qualify for clinical research studies grows, many research sites are faced...
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Implementation best practices: Launching clinical decision support
Healthcare CIOs and their IT staff members can be left to their own devices when it comes to installing certain types of systems, but not clinical decision support systems.Implementation of CDS demands...
View ArticleECRI's 2019 list of patient safety worries includes EHRs
Improper management of test results and diagnostic tools within EHRs are at the top of a list of patient safety concerns, according to a new report from ECRI Institute.ECRI’s annual safety report, 2019...
View ArticleMergers and acquisitions not leading to promised EHR integration
Improved information-sharing through electronic health record integration is often cited as a benefit of hospital mergers, but a new analysis published on the Health Affairs Blog suggests that sales...
View ArticleEric Topol: EHRs have 'taken us astray,' but AI could fix healthcare in a...
Dr. Eric Topol, founder and director of Scripps Research Translational Institute, is a longtime healthcare visionary. A cardiologist, geneticist and digital health pioneer, his ideas have been at the...
View ArticleHow a new EHR gave enterprise-wide visibility to one behavioral health org
Keystone Human Services, a large behavioral health organization based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was facing replacement of two existing electronic health record systems. One system was no longer...
View ArticleSurvey: Physicians have some positive feelings about EHRs, data and analytics
More than any other recent change to our healthcare system, the electronic health record (EHR) has become the focus of physician disdain.With research published in 2016 in the Annals of Internal...
View ArticleFighting sticker shock at pharmacy counters
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View ArticleFor infection control, hospitals rank specialty vendors higher than EHR...
Hospitals and health systems seeking better technologies for infection control often prefer to take a best-of-breed approach, rather than relying on tools from electronic health record vendors such as...
View ArticlePartners HealthCare integrates state opioid tool into its EHR
Partners HealthCare announced integration of the Massachusetts Prescription Awareness Tool (MassPAT), which enables access for providers to help prevent and manage substance use disorders, directly...
View ArticleTime to tackle IT and culture barriers to social data integration, says Jacob...
During a discussion at HIMSS19 this past month about the vast promise but big challenges of tackling patients' social determinants of health, a group of diverse professionals detailed the steps they're...
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