Bolton NHS Foundation Trust goes live with Allscripts Sunrise Acute Care
An NHS organisation in Greater Manchester has gone live with the Sunrise Acute Care electronic patient record system from Chicago-headquartered health IT giant Allscripts. Bolton NHS Foundation Trust,...
View ArticleMater health system’s digital transformation journey
The challengeHealth records contain a hybrid of information — multiple types of information existing in various formats across departments documenting different attendances. Mater Misericordiae Ltd...
View ArticleNew health system’s EHR helps 45% of its patients get Medicare Wellness visits
In April 2016, Quorum Health spun out from one of the largest publicly traded hospital companies in the United States with 160 affiliated hospitals in 22 states, as an independent, publicly traded...
View ArticleMasimo to scoop up NantHealth's connected care business
Masimo, the maker of monitoring technologies and connectivity tools for hospitals, announced this week that it will acquire the connected care assets of NantHealth for $47.25 million in cash.WHY IT...
View ArticleONC unveils draft Federal Health IT Strategic Plan
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has published the draft 2020-2025 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan, developed for HHS by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, and is...
View ArticleAdvantages of international collaboration in digital health
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View ArticleInvestors looking toward healthcare IT innovators in 2020
Healthcare information technology will be the focus of investors in 2020, with interest in the pharmaceutical and biotech sector, home and hospice care and managed care companies also high on the list,...
View ArticlePolicy changes, AI, consumerism top interoperability trends for 2020
The new consumer-driven health information ecosystem is transforming the way health systems deliver care. As always, interoperability – be it among care teams or across disparate settings – is a key...
View ArticleEpic tells customers it will stop Google Cloud integrations, says report
Electronic health record giant Epic Systems has been notifying customers that it no longer plans to pursue integrations with Google Cloud, and will instead focus on integrating into platforms offered...
View ArticlePutting patients at the heart of a digital hospital
Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Dr Afzal Chaudhry, director of digital and CCIO at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, writes about the organisation's eHospital programme.Afzal...
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How integration of SDOH data is helping improve opioid response, pop health
As hospitals and health systems have become more aware of the key value of social determinants of health, the questions have shifted somewhat. Now, many providers and public health agencies are focused...
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Epic to debut ambient voice technology assistant at HIMSS20
Epic Systems will debut at HIMSS20 in March its ambient voice technology voice assistant called “Hey, Epic!” Epic will be in Booths 2159 and 2179.“Just like you use your smart speaker at home to play...
View ArticleNHS trust predicts £2.5m savings from investment in IT solution
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has contracted Swiss Post Solutions (SPS) to digitise its patient health records, in a step towards becoming “paper-lite” by 2023.SPS chose...
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Health IT 2020: Patient engagement, human-centered tech, interoperability
The beginning of this new year sees keen healthcare industry observers looking forward to get a handle on what health IT will bring in the months ahead.Healthcare IT News asked Dr. Tashfeen Ekram,...
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Athenahealth’s take on HIMSS20 trends: primary care disruption, AI and...
Jessica Sweeney Platt, executive director of research at athenahealth, has quite a lot to think about in her role there. She has to stay on top of all of the fast-changing trends across healthcare, and...
View ArticleEpic pushes out software update to help spot coronavirus
Epic this week sent out an update to its healthcare customers, meant to help providers nationwide detect potential cases of the Wuhan novel coronavirus, or 2019-nCoV.WHY IT MATTERS Epic has...
View ArticleThe Dutch way: What the Netherlands can teach us about digitisation
It's a familiar scene: at the end of an appointment, a doctor scribbles out a prescription on a notepad and sends you away. But when it comes to prescribing practices, the Netherlands has torn up the...
View ArticleSequoia Project offers guidance on forthcoming information blocking rules
Non-profit organization The Sequoia Project has published a new document that provides actionable implementation guidance and feedback in anticipation of the new information blocking rules, expected...
View ArticleHow new tech is contributing to patient-centered value
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Allscripts to showcase move to human-centered design at HIMSS20
At HIMSS20 in March, Allscripts will be introducing a human-centered design approach and re-imagining of its physician experience for today’s highly mobile world. The company will showcase a prototype...
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