ECRI's top health tech hazards for 2020 include EHR errors, alert fatigue,...
For its new annual assessment of healthcare technology dangers, the nonprofit safety group ECRI Institute points to misuse of surgical staplers as the top hazard. But a few major health IT risks also...
View ArticleCerner launches new cognitive platform, enters strategic deal with Geisinger
Several big announcements were made at the Cerner Health Conference in Kansas City this week – with the biggest being the unveiling of a next-generation technology, code-named Project Apollo, that...
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For one clinic, referral authorization tech cuts process from 5 minutes to 25...
Pembroke Pines, Florida-based Primary Care Offices was facing a few administrative challenges, and it knew it needed solutions to these problems if it were to most efficiently operate its clinic.THE...
View ArticleHow blockchain can help improve patient identity matching and consent
BOSTON - "We have to come up with new paradigms if we are going to succeed in this industry," said Amar Gupta, a professor at MIT's Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, as well as its CSAIL...
View ArticleFirst HIMSS Analytics EMRAM Stage 7 validation announced in Thailand
Officially announced at the HIMSS AsiaPac Awards last week during the HIMSS AsiaPac 19 conference, Princ Paknampo Hospital made history by becoming the first hospital in Thailand to achieve the HIMSS...
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Using Artificial Intelligence to Enhance Clinical Documentation Improvement
Sponsor: CernerPrimary topic: Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Topic: Artificial IntelligenceClinicalElectronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Resource Central: Upcoming WebinarsExternal url:...
View ArticleMicrosoft, Nuance Partner on ambient clinical intelligence for physicians
Conversational AI specialist Nuance and software giant Microsoft are partnering to help reduce the amount of administrative work associated with documenting patient care.The agreement will see both...
View ArticleNew tool help promote ICD-10 codes for social determinant of health data
In an effort to help broaden the ways in which social determinants of health can inform clinical decision making, eHealth Initiative & Foundation has recently released some new tools to promote the...
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Interoperability, APIs, and HL7 FHIR: Achieving Cross-Care Team Coordination
Sponsor: InforPrimary topic: InteroperabilityTopic: Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)InteroperabilityResource Central: Upcoming WebinarsExternal url:...
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EHR vendor Veradigm and partners creating new shared data tools for researchers
Digital healthcare is generating enormous volumes of data related to the health status of patients, but the electronic data currently is not used well for clinical research.The current clinical...
View ArticleDoD, Philips partner for AI-enabled infection control
A new technology based on artificial intelligence is being used to identify infections up to two days before symptoms appear, intended for U.S. service members but expected to be used widely by...
View ArticleAustralia's St. Stephen's Hospital earns HIMSS Davies Award for device...
Hervey Bay, Queensland-based St. Stephen's Hospital is the most recent winner of a HIMSS Davies Award of Excellence.WHY IT MATTERS The hospital, which is part of UnitingCare Queensland, has been...
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Q&A: How Italy is working to digitise healthcare
In a survey carried out by HIMSS Analytics in Europe last year, hospital IT executives reported grappling with many of the same challenges faced by players in other regions around the globe. From the...
View ArticleLeidos commercial EHR consulting business acquired by ettain group
Leidos Health, the commercial health IT consulting arm of the giant government technology and services contractor, has been acquired by the ettain group, a talent procurement firm focused on the IT...
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With payment IT, hospital reduced statement costs by half and saved $200,000...
Boston Children’s Hospital was founded in 1869 as the primary pediatric teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. It is a worldwide leader in pediatric care and the treatment of complex diseases and...
View ArticleLeveraging technology and informatics to improve the work of nurses
Nurses are at the frontline of healthcare, often being the first point of contact to provide patients with the care required and like any other role in the healthcare profession, they are often...
View ArticleCerner teams up with Uber to help patients get to appointments
Cerner and Uber are collaborating to help get patients to and from their doctor's appointments – addressing a major social determinant of health that hinders the cost-effective management of chronic...
View ArticleTaking 'step by step' journey to digital transformation
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View ArticleHow clinical documentation improvement helped one hospital boost speed,...
Staff at Montefiore St. Luke’s Cornwall in New York City was faced with a complex and timely physician query process.THE PROBLEMQueries often would be left unanswered, as providers were challenged by...
View ArticleUnstructured EHR data more useful for predictive analytics, study shows
A new report in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association has shown that real world data contained in unstructured narratives has big predictive value when it comes to clinical...
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