New My Health Record eLearning course launched for better engagement with...
The Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) announced the launch of a new education resource which is aimed to help clinical radiologists and other members of an individual’s healthcare team to develop...
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Athenahealth CISO describes the company’s new ‘internal offense’ security...
As chief information security officer at cloud IT giant athenahealth, Taylor Lehmann is responsible for protecting data managed by 7,000 employees – running across 160,000 providers serving 110 million...
View ArticleVA sets July 2020 goal for EHR rollout at Mann-Grandstaff
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has announced a new proposed rollout date for the electronic health record system at Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center in Spokane, Washington, which will...
View ArticleNorthwell Health finding success with SDOH integration
"We want to showcase the roadmap for us – and lessons learned and recommendations for others," said Sabina Zak, VP of community health and health services research at Northwell.Integrating SDOH data...
View ArticleNHS needs a ‘postmodern EHR approach’, says founder of openEHR vendor Better
A “postmodern EHR approach” can benefit the NHS by avoiding the need to be locked into one supplier, according to Better founder and chief executive Tomaž Gornik.Speaking at the Digital Health Rewired...
View ArticleMedicomp Systems, Holy Name Health partner on EHR
New Jersey-based Holy Name Health is set to launch Harmony EHR, a new electronic health record system developed at the 361-bed hospital in collaboration with Medicomp.The platform, powered by...
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Albertina Kerr improves care with Epic’s Coordinated Care Management platform
EHRs are known for their ability to track height, weight, blood pressure and other standard health information – but a group in the Pacific Northwest is using EHR technology in a new way to also track...
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Personalizing the Patient Experience with Consumer Engagement Platforms
Author: MicrosoftSponsor: MicrosoftPrimary topic: Patient EngagementTopic: Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Patient EngagementWorkflowResource Central: Upcoming WebinarsExternal url:...
View ArticleUW Medicine CIO's advice: prepping IT systems for COVID-19
Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Population HealthTelehealthWorkflowWorkforceOn the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic, UW has ramped up telemedicine capabilities and made immediate changes to...
View ArticleMy Health Record receives upgrade for improved security controls and advance...
The Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) today announced that the My Health Record System will be upgraded over two days to improve usability for consumers and healthcare providers.There will be...
View ArticleHIMSS CEO: Cancelling conference was 'heartbreaking,' but HIMSS20 Digital is...
This past week, just days before it was scheduled to begin – with a sitting president, for the first time ever, addressing its opening session – HIMSS announced the cancellation of its 2020 Global...
View ArticleKing Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital revalidated against EMRAM Stage 7 standards
King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital (KKESH), a tertiary care ophthalmic facility in Saudi Arabia, has been validated against the Stage 7 standards of the HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model...
View ArticleVietnam’s hospitals at the early stage of going smart
According to the latest white paper by YCP Solidiance, an Asia-focused consultancy firm, titled A Look Forward: How Digitalization is Transforming Vietnam’s Healthcare System, the country’s hospitals...
View ArticleHow EHR vendors are arming providers to handle COVID-19
As healthcare organizations ramp up efforts to treat COVID-19 patients, their health IT vendors are looking to provide them with tools to manage cases, analyze data and assess patients remotely.The...
View ArticleAthenahealth adds mobile decision tool to epocrates for COVID-19
In an effort to help the healthcare community tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, EHR vendor athenahealth announced additional capabilities to its mobile medical reference application epocrates.WHY IT...
View ArticleTechnology is radically improving care for veterans
Connected HealthElectronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Government & PolicyPatient EngagementTelehealthWith its three-pillar approach to modernization, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is...
View ArticleHealth IT heavy-hitters join forces for COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition
The new COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition is bringing together some notable heavy-hitters from across the healthcare and technology industries – each with different specialties, but all working toward the...
View ArticleAmerican University of Beirut Medical Center achieves Stage 6 of EMRAM and...
The hospital has a fully integrated and deployed EMR system that enables both the inpatient and outpatient facilities to operate near-paperless care.WHY IT MATTERSThe EMRAM and O-EMRAM models devised...
View ArticleCoronavirus pandemic puts focus on strengths, weaknesses of EHRs
A central problem the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted is the fact that EHR systems are large, slow monoliths that don’t quickly adapt to new, emergent demands on their design and workflow.Future...
View ArticleTechnology lessons learned for temporary hospital deployments
Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Network InfrastructurePrivacy & SecurityWorkflowWorkforceAs the COVID-19 crisis forces hospitals to get creative, a retired Air Force Colonel offers some...
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