Interoperability: Health data-sharing is lacking inside and outside of...
A new survey of tech executives at U.S. hospitals and health systems finds nearly a third indicate their data-sharing efforts are insufficient, even within their own organizations, and fewer than four...
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Mobile clinical communications saves Valley Medical Center tens of millions...
Workflow efficiency is of utmost importance in the operating room at UW Medicine’s Valley Medical Center, a 321-bed acute care community hospital and clinic network in the suburbs of Seattle.THE...
View ArticleSoftware: The fix for overburdened hardware
Bloated and sluggish electronic health records are commonplace in healthcare today, along with the allure of new hardware that promises to speed the systems up.There are problems, though, with that...
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Clinical decision support systems will surpass EHRs as prime caregiver...
Clinical decision support systems are poised to become the user interface of choice for clinical interactions with health IT, ultimately supplanting the electronic health record system as the primary...
View ArticleAccelerating HIE: Focus on use case for each provider
Primary topic:Â Health Information Exchange (HIE)Disable Auto Tagging:Â Short Headline:Â Accelerating HIE: Focus on use case for each providerFeatured Decision Content:Â Region Tag:Â Europe/UK
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Collaboration as a Radical Approach to the Opioid Epidemic
Sponsor:Â Collective Medical TechPrimary topic:Â Quality and SafetyTopic:Â Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Quality and SafetyResource Central:Â White PapersExternal url:...
View ArticleAMIA preparing for health data export challenges
Primary topic:Â HIMSS19Disable Auto Tagging:Â Short Headline:Â AMIA preparing for health data export challengesFeatured Decision Content:Â Region Tag:Â Global Edition
View ArticleNuance expands AI-based platform to help surgeons with documentation
The healthcare division of Nuance Communications announced it has developed an artificial intelligence-based platform, the Computer-Assisted Physician Documentation (CAPD) solution, to help surgeons...
View ArticleOIG audit: Massive backlog in digitizing VHA medical records
Veterans Health Administration medical facilities are facing an enormous challenge as they scan and enter medical documentation into patients' electronic health records, according to an audit from the...
View ArticleWarburg Pincus acquires majority stake in WebPT
Private equity firm Warburg Pincus has signed an agreement to buy a majority interest in the EHR developer WebPT, acquiring it from Battery Ventures.WHY IT MATTERS The investment will enable WebPT to...
View ArticleWearable health records: Carrying patient data on your wrist
Primary topic:Â Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Disable Auto Tagging:Â Short Headline:Â Wearable health records: Carrying patient data on your wristFeatured Decision Content:Â Region Tag:Â Global Edition
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Implementation best practices: Kicking off quality and safety tech
There are quality and safety technologies that help ensure the best patient care or the best care environment, and there are quality and safety technologies that help ensure health IT is working at...
View ArticleAdventHealth opens new AI-powered clinical command center
AdventHealth's Central Florida Division has launched a new high-tech command center powered with GE Healthcare technology.WHY IT MATTERS The center uses artificial intelligence to help the nonprofit...
View ArticleInvestments in social determinants will pay off, with better outcomes and value
Massachusetts General Hospital estimates that as much as 80 percent of a patient's health status stems from social and economic factors. Other calculations, such as those spotlighted in a recent Health...
View ArticleTo address social determinants, let data shape partnerships
For much of the history of modern medicine, the model has been that patients go to the hospital or physician to receive treatment. This works well when all of the tools needed to solve a health problem...
View ArticleMayo Clinic, Cerner expand into UK with new Oxford partnership
The Mayo Clinic is set to establish its first healthcare facility in the United Kingdom, via a collaboration with Oxford University Clinic. The new clinic, set to open later this month, will deploy...
View ArticleHealth orgs making strategic interoperability plans beyond CMS and ONC rules
Forward thinking healthcare leaders in the United States see the proposed rules to drive interoperability across the healthcare ecosystem as a base level from which to improve operations, according to...
View ArticleBlack Book ranks the top EHR vendors in regions across the globe
Black Book Market Research, the parent group of Black Book Rankings, a healthcare-centric market research and public opinion research company, has released its annual global electronic health records...
View ArticleONC names Sequoia Project as TEFCA coordinator
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has awarded a new cooperative agreement to the Sequoia Project to run a major component of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, or...
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Athenahealth hires PatientKeeper CEO as chief product officer
Cloud-based IT vendor athenahealth announced Sept. 5 that longtime PatientKeeper CEO Paul Brient will be its new chief product officer.WHY IT MATTERS As athenahealth continues charting a new course...
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