Jon White departs ONC, Steve Posnack to take over as Deputy National Coordinator
Deputy National Coordinator for Health IT Dr. Jon White is leaving the agency next month for a position at the Veterans Administration Salt Lake City Health Care System, where he'll be Associate Chief...
View ArticleGeorgia hospitals gain access to CarePort tools to improve transitions of care
Georgia Hospital Health Services, a subsidiary of the Georgia Hospital Association, is working with Allscripts subsidiary CarePort Health to improve transitions of care.WHY IT MATTERS As they work to...
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Apple Watches, AI help docs dictate at Austin Regional, saving 2 hours a day
Austin Regional Medical Clinic, a multispecialty medical group serving central Texas, provides primary and specialty healthcare to more than 475,000 area residents in 25 locations across ten cities....
View ArticleNovant Health migrates its Epic EHR system to the cloud
In what's being billed as one of the biggest yet cloud migrations of an Epic electronic health record deployment, Novant Health has moved its mission-critical applications to Virtustream's cloud...
View ArticleSurescripts files motion to dismiss FTC antitrust charge
Surescripts has moved to dismiss the Federal Trade Commission's charge from earlier this year that it holds an illegal monopoly on the e-prescribing market.WHY IT MATTERS This past April, the FTC...
View ArticleFor value-based care, a Texas health system puts cost and risk data at the...
As a health system, Houston Methodist Sugar Land has multiple charges. It’s called to enhance the patient experience, increase delivery of personalized care, improve clinician efficiency and...
View ArticleAddressing unique EHR challenges in New Zealand
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View ArticleInterface at Royal Papworth marks the first ever UK connection between...
Blood test results from patients at Royal Papworth Hospital can now be sent electronically from the laboratory at Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) and back, via a new link between the Lorenzo and...
View ArticleHealth system boards don't do enough IT oversight, report shows
The boards of directors at U.S. hospitals health systems and hospitals are seriously lacking when it comes to technology expertise, according to a Black Book Research survey of 308 C-Suite...
View ArticleRhodes Group launches new InterSystems-powered specimen collection technology
Rhodes Group, which develops specialized software for laboratories, has created a new cloud-based tool to improve the specimen collection process using InterSystems technology.WHY IT MATTERS The...
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How UHS uses availability and performance monitors to ensure Cerner is...
Universal Health Services is one of the 10 largest for-profit health systems in the United States, and it relies heavily on Cerner to deliver EHR application services to healthcare professionals all...
View ArticleAHIMA, CHIME, others lobby Capitol Hill for unique patient ID
Members of the American Health Information Management Association and the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives were in Washington this week, calling on the United States Senate to...
View ArticleCommonwealth Fund offers ROI calculator to help target SDOH efforts
To help health systems better understand the impact and cost benefits of their initiatives around social determinants of health, the Commonwealth Fund has created an online calculator to help determine...
View ArticleKeys to achieving a successful data integration strategy
Healthcare’s future will be rife with data.As noted in a recent IDC study, the amount of data used by the healthcare industry, given both current and future advances in imaging and analytics platforms,...
View ArticleNHS trust signs 10-year contract with System C
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust will be replacing its Lorenzo patient administration system from DXC Technology after awarding a 10-year contract to British health IT services and solutions supplier...
View ArticleA primer on healthcare cybersecurity threats & risks in APAC
According to the CBSi B2B Cybersecurity Study, Asia Pacific 2018, one of the biggest challenges faced by an organisation’s cybersecurity framework is aligning cybersecurity with business priorities....
View ArticlePhysicians are key making precision medicine investments pay off
Finding the best care for a patient can be a constantly moving target. The number of stakeholders, the constant advance of new information and treatment options, and the nuanced demands of different...
View ArticleAs health systems reach comfort level with the cloud, the sky's the limit for...
It wasn’t too long ago that most IT and security professionals would balk at the very idea of keeping mission-critical data – especially protected health information – in the public cloud. For all the...
View ArticleEmpowering patients in the UK
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View ArticleDigitalising NHS patient data could be the key to a healthcare revolution
A recent Ernst & Young (EY) report presents a framework for the efficient and ethical use of NHS data, which it describes as "a treasure trove of information detailing health, wellness, illness and...
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