UNC Health uses Epic to pull in other EHR data to create better comprehensive...
It’s very difficult for physicians and other frontline caregivers to get complete pictures of patients’ healthcare, of course, since patients so often receive care at multiple locations whose IT...
View ArticleInTouch Health buys Reach Health, bolstering inpatient, outpatient telehealth...
In its second acquisition this year, InTouch Health, which develops enterprise telehealth technology for hospitals and health systems, announced that it has acquired Reach Health, another telemedicine...
View ArticleBlockchain for healthcare gets boost from NH-ISAC and Trusted Key
Trusted Key Solutions, a blockchain-based secure digital identity company, has successfully demonstrated a proof-of-concept project in partnership with healthcare consortium NH-ISAC, with the potential...
View ArticleCleveland Clinic innovation team shares strategic formula for tech...
Cleveland — Wouldn’t you like a look inside the Cleveland Clinic’s innovation mindset? Attendees at the HIMSS and Health 2.0 Dev4Health event here this week got just such a glimpse.Teams have spent the...
View ArticleBlockchain for healthcare – closer than we think?
Blockchain holds big potential for overcoming issues of trust and ironing out technology wrinkles in the sharing of clinical and financial data in healthcare. While that is becoming increasingly widely...
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Reducing Medication Errors Through Better Technology Integration
Medication errors made by caregivers, due in large part to a lack of integration across the medication management process, impact not only quality but cost as well. As this infographic shows,...
View ArticleSequoia Project to bring PULSE platform nationwide for disaster response
The Sequoia Project is developing a nationwide deployment plan for Patient Unified Lookup System for Emergencies, a disaster response platform for health information access that was launched this past...
View ArticleSurescripts sees big gains in interoperability, with 13.7 billion secure...
Interoperability is on the upswing nationwide, says Surescripts, which saw 13.7 billion secure health data transactions take place across its network in 2017 – a 26 percent increase from the previous...
View ArticleIt's not just EHRs: Interoperability also poses big challenges for revenue cycle
More than three-quarters of the hospitals surveyed for a new HIMSS Analytics study said that denials are the biggest challenge they face with revenue cycle management.One reason for that could be their...
View ArticleCTA and Xcertia to develop rules of the road for mobile apps
The Consumer Technology Association and Xcertia, a mobile health app collaborative, are working together to develop guidelines for the market. They will consider topics such as accuracy, transparency,...
View ArticleChange Healthcare joins with Adobe and Microsoft on new patient engagement tech
Change Healthcare will work with Adobe and Microsoft on a new platform that will aggregate patient data for a more seamless and user-friendly patient experience.The three companies will leverage...
View ArticleA call to action: Using open APIs to solve global healthcare challenges
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View ArticleSenate passes bill allowing CMS to create incentives for behavioral health EHRs
A bipartisan bill cleared the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, which gives the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services the authority to offer incentives for behavioral health providers who implement...
View ArticleHow health apps are chipping away at interoperablity hurdles
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View ArticleNewYork-Presbyterian adds more telemedicine-equipped mobile stroke care vehicles
Every minute after blood flow is even partially cut off from the brain, 1.9 million brain cells die due to lack of oxygen. So every second counts when it comes to treating someone who is suffering a...
View ArticleHLTH takeaways for hospital CIOs and IT pros
Hospitals, and doctors specifically, need more tech tools, not fewer. The shift to platforms and networks-of-networks is essentially unstoppable, geographical pockets of interoperability might be what...
View ArticleHealth industry groups: Time to tackle patient matching
A who's-who of health IT and interoperability experts including HIMSS, AHIMA, AMIA, CHIME, Sequoia Project, SHIEC, Surescripts and others called on Capitol Hill to finally make patient matching and...
View ArticleSequoia Project restructures to make eHealth Exchange, Carequality twin pillars
The Sequoia Project announced plans to implement a new corporate structure this summer that will emphasize its role as a convener for nationwide interoperability initiatives, leading to two distinct...
View ArticleInteroperability also posing big challenges in the UK
As the U.S. healthcare system continues to grapple with interoperability challenges, working from all angles to address them, it can be illustrative to check in with our closest ally – which is also...
View ArticleBimodal IT: Innovation in the age of EMRs
We have reached an important plateau now with the digitization of healthcare. We have adopted EMRs in nearly all hospitals, most clinics and doctor’s offices in most countries around the world.There...
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