Cleveland Clinic COVID-19 research effort to rely on EHRs, analytics
The Cleveland Clinic is establishing a research arm that will use data from multiple sources, including its electronic health record, to study emerging pathogens.The Center for Global and Emerging...
View ArticleSupporting a healthy bottom line with clinical documentation improvement for...
“I wear a lot of hats around here.”It’s a phrase that we all hear, and repeat, regularly, but it may be no truer than at rural and critical access hospitals. In these environments, the health...
View ArticleCerner, AWS partner to make COVID-19 data available to researchers
Healthcare technology company Cerner and Amazon Web Services are joining to offer access to de-identified patient data to researchers fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.WHY IT MATTERS Stored on Cerner's...
View ArticleMalaffi HIE extending Abu Dhabi COVID-19 response
Health Information Exchange (HIE) platform Malaffi has announced two new solutions in Abu Dhabi’s fight against coronavirus. Working under the guidance of the Department of Health (DOH), Malaffi has...
View ArticleIT preparedness is key to managing outbreak of COVID-19, says CIO of SNUBH
South Korea has been lauded as a role model in its containment and flattening the curve of COVID-19 infections through a combination of rapid intervention, extensive testing for the virus, contact...
View ArticleEpic launches new telehealth service with Twilio
Epic Systems has tapped San Francisco-based communications tech startup Twilio to provide the video-communication backend for Epic’s new telehealth platform.WHY IT MATTERS Based on Twilio’s...
View ArticleEpic Health Research Network aims to boost knowledge sharing during pandemic...
The new Epic Health Research Network, launched this past week by the Verona, Wisconsin-based electronic health record giant, is a communication platform whose goal, according to the company, is...
View ArticleHITN APAC eBook: Dealing with the COVID-19 outbreak through digital health in...
With the pandemic having originated in the APAC region, the upcoming HITN APAC eBook titled, “Dealing with the COVID-19 outbreak through digital health in APAC”, begins with how various governments...
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FHIR-based system for EHRs cut search time from 3 minutes to 5 seconds
The Regenstrief Institute in Indianapolis, Indiana, faced a challenge: How to make health information from the Indiana Network for Patient Care, the nation’s largest inter-organizational clinical data...
View ArticleCarePort launches post-discharge tool to help hospitals with interop compliance
CarePort Health, which develops software for transitions of care, has announced a new tool, CarePort Connect for Interoperability, that it says is designed to help hospitals comply with the Centers for...
View ArticleTelehealth has staying power, should benefit from lasting regulatory changes
As COVID-19 continues to hammer the U.S., more patients than ever are turning to telehealth for care – eschewing overcrowded emergency rooms and dormant physician practices in favor of virtual...
View ArticleCongress must tackle patient matching amid COVID-19, says Pew Charitable Trusts
For all the controversy surrounding the "reopening" of society during the ongoing public health emergency, it remains a stubborn fact that there's no getting back any safe sense of new normal without...
View ArticleGetting to accurate electronic clinical quality measures can be a challenge
Electronic clinical quality measures were created years ago as part of the federal EHR Incentive Programs, or meaningful use. At the time, eCQMs held the promise of automatically extracting the...
View ArticleCOVID-19: Effective infection control strategies implemented in Taiwan
The rise in the number of COVID-19 cases all over the world has not abated, with some countries reporting far greater numbers than others. However, despite its close geographical proximity to China,...
View ArticleEHR satisfaction: A better way is possible
After five independent orthopedic practices merged to form OrthoVirginia, the organization faced a new challenge: increasing provider satisfaction with its chosen electronic health record."We assumed...
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How athenahealth’s EHR FaceTime feature is helping a solo practice during...
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic in mid-March, Dr. Mamdouh Riad, a solo practitioner in Hyannis, Massachusetts, began to take notice that he would not be able to see patients in the office as...
View ArticleSwitching EHRs can lead to big drops in patient satisfaction
Patient satisfaction plummets following a switch in electronic health record software, Mayo Clinic researchers found in a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics...
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First-ever Cerner ‘virtual go-live’ helps one hospital roll out EHR during...
Macon Community Hospital is a 25-bed critical access hospital in rural Tennessee that was seeking to implement a Cerner electronic health record.THE PROBLEMKnowing the intense challenges rural...
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