Interoperability, patient matching could be fixed by smartphone apps, RAND says
Patient-mediated exchange has been championed more and more recently as one potential answer to the long-vexing problem of interoperability. A recent report from RAND supports that idea, and shows how...
View ArticleHealthcare is ready to invest in blockchain as new business cases emerge
Healthcare organizations' understanding and appreciation of blockchain has evolved over the past years and more and more health systems are realizing that they need to invest as preparation for its...
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Poll results: Readers skeptical about tech giants' interoperability pledge
Interoperability has long been a contender for health IT’s hardest problem to solve. And with more than $35 billion having been poured into digitizing the healthcare system over the past decade,...
View ArticleHHS chief data officer to discuss data initiative findings at Health 2.0
The rise in big data has rocked nearly every sector from education to consumer tech, and in particular healthcare. But connecting the dots between the data sources has been a major hurtle in...
View ArticleHarris Healthcare acquires Iatric Systems, will run it as an independent...
Harris Healthcare acquired Iatric Systems for an undisclosed sum. Boxford, Massachusetts-based Iatric, which specializes in integration tools to help hospitals optimize electronic health records and...
View ArticleJudy Faulkner touts global interoperability network at Epic users conference
Epic is working to take interoperability global, CEO Judy Faulkner told more than 10,000 attendees at the company's annual Users Group Meeting."You've eliminated the silos from within your...
View ArticleNationwide prescription safety alert system proposed by House bill
A House bill introduced on Aug. 30 would create a nationwide Prescription Safety Alert System, designed to better protect patients at risk of opioid overuse.If passed, the Analyzing and Leveraging...
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Focus on innovation: 3 charts explain where healthcare is headed
Healthcare is at an exciting juncture right now. With analytics, cloud, mobile tools, open APIs, apps, and so much patient data being generated and opened to developers, there are plenty of reasons to...
View ArticleBlockchain being put to work by IBM, Intel, CDC to combat opioid epidemic
Of all the cutting-edge innovations currently buzzing in healthcare there is one that takes the latest and greatest crown: Blockchain. For all its hype, and there is still plenty of that, blockchain's...
View ArticleA look inside Epic, Cerner and Allscripts app store programs
Major electronic health record systems vendors are pretty innovative companies when it comes to keeping their products up to date with the changing requirements of delivering healthcare at health...
View ArticleCerner President Zane Burke to step down this fall
Cerner President Zane Burke, who first joined the company in 1996 and held several executive roles there before being named president, will step down on Nov. 2.John Peterzalek, Cerner's executive vice...
View ArticleAmerican Hospital Association opens new Center for Health Innovation
In an announcement that's a welcome coincidence with HIMSS Media's ongoing Focus on Innovation this month, the American Hospital Association has unveiled its AHA Center for Health Innovation – a...
View ArticlePolitical uncertainty real opportunity for innovation
The healthcare sector has been in flux in recent years, with both a shift in politics and policies around value-based care. Not only that, but with the spotlight thrust on women’s issues, there’s an...
View ArticleEHR interoperability for VA and DoD, who’s responsible? Lawmakers, officials...
The Interagency Program Office (IPO) has not fulfilled its legal mandate to be the single point of accountability between the Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs interoperability...
View ArticleHIMSS CEO Hal Wolf: Every hospital has to innovate for Silver Tsunami
SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA — The worldwide challenge of treating aging populations is driving the healthcare industry toward innovation, according to HIMSS CEO Hal Wolf.Speaking at the Health 2.0...
View ArticleCareCloud taps Google Cloud's Healthcare API to boost interoperability,...
CareCloud and Google on Tuesday announced that CareCloud is joining the Google Cloud Technology Partner Program.CareCloud said it will use Google’s Healthcare API to extend its interoperability,...
View ArticleInteroperability needs an architecture in addition to APIs, HIMSS CTIO Steve...
Interoperability: There’s a lot happening right now. FHIR, as in Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources. Open APIs. Blue Button 2.0. Carequality and CommonWell reaching a milestone this summer in...
View ArticleNHS unveils new developer programs to spark innovation for patients
The National Health Service in England announced two new innovator programs to accelerate the use of digital health tools that benefit patients and remove barriers slowing adoption of innovation in the...
View ArticleHIMSS: 4 ways tech can help the opioid crisis
HIMSS on Friday issued a call to the healthcare industry to take action in battling the ongoing opioid crisis in America by using health information and technology.While reported opioid drug overdoses...
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What innovation looks like at a small, remote hospital
So far this week we've offered glimpses about how innovation is pursued at a large academic medical center, and how it looks at a mid-sized for-profit hospital. Now it's time to profile a small...
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