Congress is trying to ensure interoperability between VA, DoD
The House Committee on Veterans Affairs introduced legislation today that would strengthen congressional oversight of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ transition from its legacy VistA EHR to...
View ArticleTiger Institute joins Sequoia Project, linking EHRs with SSM Health
In a big advance for interoperability in mid-Missouri, the Tiger Institute Health Alliance HIE has linked up the Sequoia Project eHealth Exchange.The HIE, which includes University of Missouri Health...
View ArticleKLAS ranks enterprise imaging vendors, finds some PACS and VNA vendors...
Hospitals making decisions on imaging IT want vendors to help them with enterprise strategies – enabling clinicians to easily access and view images irrespective of department. A new report from KLAS...
View ArticleONC contest winners find innovative algorithms to fix patient matching problem
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has revealed the winners of its Patient Matching Algorithm Challenge, launched this past June. More than 40 competing teams,...
View ArticleAHIMA: Here's how hospitals should document opioid abuse in the EHR
As the U.S. takes aim at the opioid crisis, the American Health Information Management Association has put together a tip sheet to help clinicians better document how their patients are using these...
View ArticleNetsmart leads Black Book list of top IT vendors for long-term and post-acute...
Left out of the meaningful use program, long-term and post-acute care providers are nonetheless making some inroads with regard to IT adoption, according to a new report from Black Book Research, even...
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Blockchain beyond EHRs: Transforming value-based payment, precision medicine,...
The considerable hype around blockchain is starting to be tempered by enterprises earning practical experience and identifying worthwhile use cases for the technology. Most of the buzz around...
View ArticleA CIO's journey to EHR success and stability
Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)InteroperabilityWhen the thrill of electronic health record implementation is over, hospital and IT execs are left to wonder: We are live on the EHR, so now...
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The Impact of Connectivity on Rural Hospitals & the Promise it Holds
Sponsor: SpectrumPrimary topic: Precision MedicineTopic: AnalyticsCareer PlanningElectronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Financial/Revenue Cycle ManagementInnovation PulseInteroperabilityPatient...
View ArticleCerner DoD overhaul coming out in waves; VA deal means 'single system' approach
Now that Cerner has successfully rolled out its electronic health record platform at four military provider sites in the Pacific Northwest – Fairchild Air Force Base, Naval Health Clinic Oak Harbor,...
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10 Health IT predictions for 2018: Al, blockchain, robotics and a $100...
By the end of 2020, 25 percent of data used in medical care will be collected and shared with health systems by the patients themselves. In the same timeframe, adoption rates of IoT-enabled asset...
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Crawl, Walk, Run: Three Real World Patient Matching Case Studies
Author: VeratoSponsor: VeratoPrimary topic: InteroperabilityTopic: Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)InteroperabilityResource Central: Upcoming WebinarsExternal url:...
View ArticleIs health IT really ready for a FHIR takeover?
Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Health Information Exchange (HIE)InteroperabilityThe full value of FHIR is still years in the making, says one expert.InterSystemsThirty years ago, interoperability...
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Healthcare Data Security and Why Technology Automation is a Critical Element
Sponsor: RedHatPrimary topic: Privacy & SecurityTopic: InteroperabilityPrivacy & SecurityQuality and SafetyResource Central: Upcoming WebinarsExternal url:...
View ArticleThe biggest interoperability holdup? There's no business case for it
The healthcare industry has struggled to figure out the right way to make interoperability happen for years. Seen as the holy grail for the sector, nationwide interoperability, while touted as a major...
View ArticleJohn Halamka to lead new peer-reviewed blockchain journal
John D. Halamka, MD, has just added blockchain to a growing portfolio of healthcare IT work he has taken over the years.The founders of a new peer-reviewed online journal “Blockchain in Healthcare...
View ArticleCerner go-live in Dublin helps historic hospital say goodbye to paper records
Dublin's Rotunda Hospital, founded in 1745, is the world's oldest continuously operating maternity hospital. It was the site of the first C-section in Ireland, performed in 1889. And until this past...
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Blockchain in healthcare: From possible to probable
Blockchain is the digital ledger of transactions that anyone on the network can see — and no one on the network can alter that information. Tracing information back to its original source and every...
View ArticleColorado charts statewide health IT roadmap, leans on analytics, care...
Colorado just became the latest state to post its own roadmap toward widespread use of health IT.Other U.S. states including Arizona and Vermont have undertaken similar initiatives as well. Colorado,...
View ArticleACO wrangles data from 45 different EHRs for real-time analytics
Beth Israel Deaconess Care Organization is a value-based network comprising eight hospitals and about 2600 providers in eastern Massachusetts.It's grown and changed quite a bit over from its early days...
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