Preparing your organization for mobile clinical communications
Several years ago, leaders at a large healthcare system put together a strategic plan that included among its goals to make clinical workflows more mobile and create “smarter” rooms using wireless...
View ArticleVA, Cerner EHR deal held up after spat over interoperability definition,...
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ EHR contract with Cerner was set to be signed this fall, but a new report from Politico found that it’s been held up over disagreements between executives on...
View ArticleSHIEC expands 'Patient Centered Data Home' initiative, linking HIEs nationwide
The Strategic Health Information Exchange Collaborative announced a nationwide expansion of what it calls the Patient Centered Data Home.Essentially, PCDH is an inter-HIE data sharing system and...
View ArticleONC's draft interoperability framework floats 'network of networks' concept
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology released the much anticipated Trusted Exchange Framework to bolster its...
View ArticleChange Healthcare's enterprise blockchain tech now available for hospitals,...
Change Healthcare has launched what it's calling the first enterprise-scale blockchain network in healthcare. By using the distributed ledger technology, hospitals, physician practices and payers can...
View ArticleFast Track to the Future: Imaging Trends to Watch in 2018
Sponsor: AmbraPrimary topic: Patient EngagementTopic: AnalyticsInteroperabilityPatient EngagementResource Central: Upcoming WebinarsExternal url:...
View ArticleHealthcare at CES 2018: Blockchain, Blue Button and interoperability among...
LAS VEGAS -- The tech world descended upon Las Vegas this week for the annual Consumer Electronics Show, and plenty of health IT’s biggest players were in attendance. While much of the discussion was...
View ArticleFDA device ID, blockchain, cloud driving growth of healthcare supply chain...
The healthcare supply chain management market should reach $2.31 billion by 2022, up from $1.55 billion in 2017, according to a new study from ReportsnReports.com.This growth will be driven by...
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A New Approach to Quality: Longitudinal and Reliable Quality Measurement
Sponsor: Diameter HealthPrimary topic: InteroperabilityTopic: InteroperabilityQuality and SafetyResource Central: Upcoming WebinarsExternal url:...
View ArticleDoD official: MHS Genesis project 'full-steam ahead,' in planned assessment...
The decision to replace the U.S. Department of Defense’s outdated ALTHA was one embraced by officials and its clinicians, who often complained of disparate systems that couldn’t speak to each other....
View ArticleChange Healthcare buys National Decision Support Company
Change Healthcare on Thursday said it acquired National Decision Support Company.Change CEO Neil de Crescenzo said NDSC’s cloud-based services add tools for evidence-based medicine to its product...
View ArticleFairview Health Services CEO raps Epic as ‘impediment to innovation’
James Hereford, president and CEO of Minneapolis-based Fairview Health Services, a not-for-profit integrated care system based in Minneapolis, called Epic Systems an "impediment to innovation.”“I will...
View ArticleFHIR transformative, blockchain overhyped, CIOs say
Innovation is something everyone in healthcare is after. But not everyone is approaching it the same way – and not everyone is able to prioritize it in the ways they'd prefer. That's according to a new...
View ArticleLooking to 2018: How the newest innovations are reliant on a tried-and-true...
AnalyticsClinicalInteroperabilityWhile last year was focused on capturing useful data, now we need to draw insights from that data across the entire care continuum.Russell Leftwich, MD2017 was a year...
View ArticleInteroperability drives VA to propose patient record-sharing without hardcopy...
Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, MD, proposed a revision to federal regulation on the confidentiality of medical records to fuel better data sharing with private sector providers.The rule...
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The 'Intelligent' 278: Creating a Standard for Shared Decision Support
Value-based care requires eliminating unnecessary healthcare costs while ensuring patients receive the right care at the right time. Yet in today’s transitional environment, providers and payers...
View ArticleCORHIO goes live with new tool to improve care documentation, efficiency
The Colorado Regional Health Information Organization will deploy technology from Medicity that will enable its member hospitals make better use of the clinical data they derive from the exchange.Its...
View ArticleApple to launch Health Records app with HL7's FHIR specifications at 12...
After many months of rumors, Apple announced that it is launching a personal health record (PHR) feature with iOS 11.3, the beta of which launched Wednesday to users in Apple's iOS Developer Program....
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7 Steps for Ensuring a Successful IoT Implementation
Sponsor: KORE WirelessPrimary topic: InteroperabilityTopic: InteroperabilityResource Central: Upcoming WebinarsExternal url:...
View ArticleAlliance to press lawmakers to fight opioid abuse with interoperability
Health IT Now Coalition launched the Opioid Safety Alliance on Thursday, a working group aimed at advancing technology solutions to combat the opioid epidemic.IBM, Intermountain Healthcare, McKesson,...
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