Protecting Provider Productivity with a Manual Data Migration Strategy
Sponsor: MDabstractPrimary topic: Data WarehousingTopic: Data WarehousingElectronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Resource Central: White PapersExternal url:...
View ArticleONC, CMS leaders tell Senate HELP Committee: Time is of the essence for new...
More than a month after its first hearing on the health IT and interoperability provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act, the Senate HELP Committee Hearing reconvened on Tuesday to ask federal...
View ArticleBrightree extends CommonWell connectivity to home health, hospice customers
Cloud-based IT company and CommonWell Health Alliance member Brightree is extending access to the interoperability network to its customer base of hospice and home health providers.WHY IT MATTERS In a...
View ArticleUCSF, the Doctors Company partner for AI-powered patient safety project
UC San Francisco and the Doctors Company are collaborating on a new $1 million initiative to explore how artificial intelligence can improve care delivery and patient safety.WHY IT MATTERS The Doctors...
View ArticleNew CDS from Change Healthcare enables home-based telemonitoring
Change Healthcare on Monday unveiled the most recent version of InterQual 2019, its flagship clinical decision support technology.WHY IT MATTERS In addition to thousands of new content updates, the...
View ArticleHow one doc fought back against physician burnout
CLEVELAND – Like most physicians, Thomas Jenike, MD, began practicing medicine because he cared deeply about other human beings and wanted to help them.So, for instance, even though it's above and...
View ArticleAs technology proliferates, human factors matter more than ever for healthcare
CLEVELAND – At the Cleveland Clinic and HIMSS Patient Experience Summit on Wednesday, two experts showed how skills of human interaction are essential to the success of organizational...
View ArticleKLAS: Large open tenders a key part of the global, non-U.S. EHR market in 2018
More than 180 healthcare organisations outside the U.S. made EHR buying decisions in 2018, having an impact on almost 380 hospitals, according to a new report by KLAS on the global (non-U.S.) market...
View ArticlePhysicians Foundation launches HIE fund for physician interoperability
Financial barriers preventing buy-in to a health information exchange just got lower in six states. In partnership with the Physicians Foundation, the medical associations and information networks in...
View ArticleHow Texas Health Resources traded phone trees for online registration and...
CLEVELAND – At the Cleveland Clinic and HIMSS Patient Experience Forum on Wednesday, Sabina Mujanovic, patient advocate at Texas Health Resources, described her own trip through the tangled phone tree...
View ArticleNew telemedicine and monitoring systems give Cone Health ICU caregivers more...
Cone Health, a Greensboro, North Carolina-based multi-hospital health system with 150 locations, had a telemedicine system in place for more than 12 years.THE PROBLEMThis technology did not update to...
View ArticleEHR training is biggest predictor of user satisfaction, experts say
A new study published in the Journal of Clinical Informatics takes aim at the notion that lackluster user experience is an essential part of electronic health record usage.Instead, it emphasizes the...
View ArticleHealthcare in 21 years will be driven by 'radically interoperable data'
As we focus this month on the promise and potential of digital transformation across healthcare, it's encouraging enough to take stock of the huge advances that have already been made in the past...
View ArticleUsing EMRAM to measure digital excellence of healthcare organizations
Primary topic: Compliance & LegalDisable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Using EMRAM to measure digital excellence of healthcare organizationsFeatured Decision Content: Region Tag: Europe/UK
View ArticleOne hospital’s game-changing journey to EMRAM Stage 7
Primary topic: Connected HealthDisable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: One hospital’s game-changing journey to EMRAM Stage 7Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Europe/UK
View ArticleTop achieving hospitals share secrets to EHR success
Why aren't more hospitals realizing the benefits of their electronic health records? And what are the organizations that are capitalizing on their EHRs doing well that others should try?Those are...
View ArticleOpioid intelligence tools helping hospitals make safer Rx decisions
U.S. health systems are availing themselves of prescription intelligence software to ensure they're not overprescribing opioids, or prescribing them to people who shouldn't have them.A new report from...
View ArticleAMIA to ONC on interoperability rules: 'Share now, standardize as needed'
The American Medical Informatics Association is generally pleased with the proposed interoperability rules put forth by the National Coordinator for Health IT. But the informatics group is warning...
View ArticleEpic adds American Well telehealth app to its App Orchard
The American Well Telehealth app is now available in Epic's App Orchard, offering clinicians the ability do video visits and virtual consults within the electronic health record.WHY IT MATTERS American...
View ArticlePractice management suite helps group practice grow 15 percent a year
Pennsylvania Dermatology Partners is a dermatology group practice with 12 locations. In its previous group practice formation, it had used a homegrown practice management system with an integrated...
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