Cerner exec wins GOP primary, will face incumbent US Rep. Sharice Davids
Cerner executive Amanda Adkins won the Republican primary for Kansas' 3rd Congressional District on Tuesday and will face incumbent U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids in the upcoming November election.Adkins,...
View ArticleInteroperability for improved care coordination amid COVID 19
Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Government & PolicyHealth Information Exchange (HIE)InteroperabilityPopulation HealthHow healthcare providers can leverage interoperability across the care...
View ArticleICD-10 codes don't accurately capture COVID-19 symptoms, study shows
A study published this past week in JAMA Network Open suggests symptom-specific ICD-10 codes don't always capture COVID-19-related symptoms.An electronic health record review of 2,201 patients who had...
View ArticleFederal judge blocks HHS from rolling back protections for transgender patients
On Monday, Eastern District of New York Judge Frederic Block issued a preliminary injunction stopping the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' move to roll back protections for transgender...
View ArticleProject will use HIMSS Digital Health Indicator to create roadmap for health...
A Queensland government project will use the HIMSS Digital Health Indicator to help health workers in the Australian state understand the technology used in local health services.The initiative will...
View ArticleNurses 2.0 - The digital transformation of nursing
Digital innovation is becoming increasingly critical to clinical practice, not just as a workforce management tool, but as a foundation to change the way care is delivered. Healthcare IT News spoke to...
View ArticleFirst component of VA EHR modernization goes live in Ohio
In a first step for its long-planned, decade-long, $16 billion Electronic Health Record Modernization program, the U.S. Department of Veterans affairs announced today that it has gone live with a...
View ArticleCuring physician EHR burnout in wake of COVID-19
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View ArticleAlgorithm cuts time spent on COVID-19 patient contact tracing by 60%
Contact tracing has become a key strategy in combating the novel coronavirus – particularly with regard to asymptomatic people who may not know they've been exposed. However, trying to track down those...
View ArticleGlobal healthcare needs to speak a common language to tackle the challenge of...
Decision SupportElectronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Government & PolicyInteroperabilityPopulation HealthQuality and SafetyCOVID-19 has reinforced the possibilities that open up when we collaborate,...
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What one provider learned from other athenahealth users about EHRs and...
The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted the daily lives and workflows of healthcare providers across the globe.THE PROBLEMWhole Life Health Care in Newington, New Hampshire, is a family practice...
View ArticleKonica Minolta pays $500K to settle EHR whistleblower case
Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas will pay $500,000 to settle a whistleblower case that alleged its Viztek electronic health record subsidiary had falsified data for certification tests.WHY IT MATTERS...
View ArticleAI-assisted EHR documentation will need human help
Artificial intelligence technologies are being increasingly relied upon in the healthcare domain, particularly when it comes to decision support, precision medicine, and the improvement of the quality...
View ArticleSymptom checker at Royal Marsden Hospital reduces COVID infection risk for...
When the pandemic struck, tech-savvy oncologists at the Royal Marsden Hospital (RMH), which specialises in cancer treatment, wanted to develop a new system to protect cancer patients from COVID-19...
View ArticleOnline scheduling portals promote care continuity – but may widen gaps in access
Online patient portals are an increasingly popular way for health systems to allow appointment scheduling, with many major electronic health record vendors offering them as an option.But a study of...
View ArticleHealthcare execs say telehealth is their No. 1 pandemic tech problem
A new report from research firm KLAS found that nearly half of the 19 healthcare executives surveyed say that either telehealth functionality or capacity has been their primary problem to solve during...
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With EHR integration, TriHealth gets data flowing smoothly between acute and...
At TriHealth, a health system based in Cincinnati, Ohio, clinicians were feeling the pinch between balancing their actual jobs (in caring for patients) and administrative work, like electronic health...
View ArticleRoundup: AI-powered surgical intelligence platform partners with Israeli...
AI-POWERED SURGICAL INTELLIGENCE PLATFORM PARTNERS WITH ISRAELI HOSPITAL Surgical intelligence platform, Theator, has announced a new partnership with Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center (Ichilov...
View ArticleMore than 60% of Abu Dhabi hospitals now digitally connected
The majority of Abu Dhabi’s hospitals are now digitally connected, it has been announced. This comes just over a year on from the implementation of the UAE’s first Health Information Exchange (HIE)...
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How St. Joseph’s Health reduced fields, time and clicks in Cerner EHR
Streamlining documentation has always been a goal at New Jersey’s St. Joseph’s Health because more time spent documenting in the computer means less time nurses have to spend with patients.THE...
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