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Yale New Haven wins with Epic prescription drug monitoring integration
Yale New Haven Health is Connecticut’s largest healthcare provider. With 1,548 beds, Yale New Haven Hospital is the fourth largest hospital in the United States. Its adult emergency department treats...
View ArticleDigital transformation in the time of COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed the face of care provision across the world. Telehealth adoption in the US, for instance, has grown around 3,000% since the start of the crisis, taking...
View ArticleIntermountain Healthcare names new CIO
Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare has named its new chief information officer.WHY IT MATTERS Ryan Smith has been chosen for the role after an exhaustive search to succeed Marc Probst, the...
View ArticleSavience Limited and HSL Telehealth partner to launch ‘one click’ virtual...
A collaboration between clinic-management specialists Savience Limited and healthcare IT solution firm HSL Telehealth has created a new secure virtual clinic service.By integrating the virtual clinic...
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Patient education TV, linked to EHR, ups one hospital’s HCAHPS scores
Diabetes is a serious public health epidemic across the nation but is even more prevalent in Kentucky, with the seventh-highest rate of the disease in the nation. In 2018, the Kentucky Department of...
View Article'Alert fatigue and clinical burnout are a very real phenomenon'
In a recent virtual panel hosted by HIMSS in collaboration with Elsevier, key discussions, lead by industry experts, highlighted the importance of integrating the latest information, guidelines and...
View ArticleUK government releases details of COVID-19 data-sharing deals with big tech...
Contracts released by the UK government have revealed that personal health information about millions of NHS patients was provided to private tech firms involved in the COVID-19 datastore project.The...
View ArticleCongressional watchdog: VA has been missing key stakeholders in EHR update
Three years ago this week, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs chose Cerner to modernize its aging VistA electronic health record. The agency has been working with halting progress toward that goal...
View ArticleNorthShore makes genomic decision support available in Epic with help from ActX
Another 10,000 patients have received genetic testing through NorthShore Health's DNA-10K initiative, and now their protected genetic information has been made available to clinicians via the health...
View ArticleMount Sinai Health names new CIO
Mount Sinai Health System has promoted Kristin Myers, a longtime IT leader at the health system, to executive vice president, chief information officer and dean for information technology. Ms. Myers...
View ArticleUsing tech to manage COVID-19 resource allocation
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View Article1 in 5 patients have found errors in visit notes
Patients who have access to notes from their ambulatory care visits may be able to flag mistakes, increasing record accuracy and safety engagement.A new study published in the Journal of the American...
View ArticleAthenahealth launches new EHR-embedded telehealth tool
Athenahealth announced this week that it had launched an embedded telehealth tool to allow practitioners to conduct virtual visits without having to download separate software or use another...
View ArticleBallad Health launches Epic with virtual roll-out across its 4-state system
Ballad Health, a healthcare system spanning four states in Appalachia, announced that it had deployed Epic to operate its electronic health records system. The move targeted physician practices that...
View ArticleDeveloping antimicrobial stewardship programs using AI models to ensure...
Overuse or misuse of antibiotics in hospital settings is a global problem, fueling one of the most serious public health threats: antimicrobial resistance. An estimated 20 per cent to 50 per cent of...
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How one physician practice was transformed by EHR-embedded telehealth
As a family medicine practitioner, Dr. Dillon Miller, medical director at Blue Ridge Medical Group in Blue Ridge, Georgia, was faced with challenges erupting from the coronavirus pandemic.THE...
View ArticleRansomware attack leaves 5 years of patient records inaccessible at Colo....
Rangely District Hospital in Rio Blanco County, Colo., issued a notice last week that a ransomware attack had targeted the software necessary to access five years of patient records. In addition, the...
View ArticleAdventHealth taps Virtustream to move Epic EHR to the cloud
AdventHealth, which operates 45 hospitals across nine states, will be moving its Epic electronic health record system to the cloud with the help of Virtustream, the Dell-owned cloud services provider...
View ArticleEmpowering care teams at Malaysia’s Bagan Specialist Centre & Oriental Melaka...
Bagan Specialist Centre is a private hospital located in Butterworth, Penang in Malaysia and the first hospital to embark on a fully automated early warning scoring system in the APAC region in July...
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