Epic connects with HCSC on payer data exchange platform
Health Care Service Corporation, a licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association with some 16 million members covered by health plans in five states, announced this week that it is working...
View ArticleCerner signs 7 new small hospital customers for CommunityWorks
Cerner announced Monday that it has inked new contracts with seven new hospitals for its cloud-based CommunityWorks EHR, which is designed for community and critical access hospitals.WHY IT MATTERS The...
View ArticleCMS creates new Office of Burden Reduction and Health Informatics
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has formed the new Office of Burden Reduction and Health Informatics – an outgrowth of its Patients over Paperwork Initiative, whose mission is...
View ArticleMassachusetts eHealth Collaborative is calling it a day
The Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative says it is winding down its operations, having made big progress over the past decade and a half enabling technology-driven healthcare improvements in...
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Graham Healthcare saves time, money integrating Salesforce, EHR, alerts,...
Graham Healthcare Group, a post-acute care organization in Michigan, works with data technology companies to help it reach its goal of being an innovator in post-acute care.THE PROBLEMRecently, the...
View ArticleRoyal Surrey and Ashford and St Peter’s NHS Foundation trusts to implement...
Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS foundation trust and Royal Surrey NHS foundation trust have announced plans to implement a new integrated electronic patient records (EPR) system across both...
View ArticleAmerican Hospital Dubai recruits Oracle and Cerner for major digital overhaul
Oracle Cloud Applications and Cerner have been selected by American Hospital Dubai in the United Arab Emirates to lead on a “major” digital transformation that aims to enhance efficiency and establish...
View ArticleDeveloping a Common Operating Picture in Military Health: Being Ready for the...
The success of any military mission — be it conducted by the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marines – relies upon “readiness.” The United States Department of Defense (DoD) defines readiness as “the ability...
View ArticleJust 29% of substance abuse treatment centers only store health records...
According to new data released last week by ONC, more than half of substance abuse treatment centers nationwide use a combination of electronic and paper methods when it comes to storing and exchanging...
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Cloud-based telehealth, linked with Epic EHR, helps one hospital scale up...
Lee Health, a health system based in Fort Myers, Florida, has had inpatient telemedicine infrastructure in place since 2014, ambulatory telemedicine since 2015 and a direct-to-consumer system since...
View Article'Dirty' data in EHRs could cause unnecessary expenses
Compliance & LegalData WarehousingElectronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Financial/Revenue Cycle ManagementPatient EngagementWhen working with big data, small inconsistencies in data entry matter....
View ArticleReinforcing Readiness and Saving Lives via Integrated Health Information...
The military health system currently struggles with ways to collect and communicate health information from warfighters on the ground, whether in theater or in garrison. Such a deficiency not only...
View ArticleConnecting Systems, Connecting Care: Improving Comms from Point of Injury to MTF
One of the greatest challenges facing the military health system is finding consistent, effective ways to communicate a warfighter’s health information as he or she moves from point-of-injury to a...
View ArticleHealth Catalyst to acquire healthfinch, with eye toward workflow optimization
Health Catalyst announced Thursday that it will acquire healthfinch, Inc. for an undisclosed sum. The company, based in Madison, Wisconsin, specializes in technologies that enhance and enable...
View ArticleUK's Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS FT becomes the first...
London's Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS FT (GOSH) was awarded Stage 6 on the EMRAM and O-EMRAM by HIMSS this week, making it the first hospital in Europe to achieve both...
View ArticleImproving the Health, Safety, and Longevity of the Warfighter
The U.S. Military Health System, serving more than 9.5 million beneficiaries worldwide, including active duty service members, veterans, and military family members, is undergoing a period of...
View ArticleAllscripts, Microsoft re-up their cloud EHR collaboration deal
Allscripts and Microsoft are extending their strategic alliance focused on the development and innovation of new cloud-based healthcare technologies.WHY IT MATTERS Specifically, the new five-year re-up...
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Using Zoom with Epic to bring telehealth to kids during COVID-19
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the immediate challenge for Baltimore-based Kennedy Krieger Institute was shifting an almost-100% on-site outpatient workforce to an almost entirely remote one....
View ArticleEmpowering and protecting the care team
“We have long forgotten the importance of [the healthcare] workforce over the years and taken them for granted. Even in the pre-COVID-19 days, we have been asking them to do more with less, in less...
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UVA pushes a pediatric telehealth platform to care for COVID-19 adults
The novel problem that COVID-19 delivered to everyone who takes care of patients was that in the early days of the disease, caregivers did not know much about how a patient’s course would progress.THE...
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