Zika testing skyrockets in May, athenahealth data show
Zika testing rose this month to levels not seen since last August, according to EHR vendor athenahealth. But the sharp increase in testing does not necessarily bode ominously for Zika infections to...
View ArticleHealth IT Now to Tom Price: Limit ONC's 'overstep and mission creep'
Industry coalition Health IT Now on Wednesday called on Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price to focus on interoperability, kill information blocking, and reduce both healthcare costs and the...
View ArticleHow Do You Turn Hospital Quality Data into Insight?
Author: BattelleSponsor: BattellePrimary topic: AnalyticsTopic: AnalyticsCloud ComputingQuality and SafetyResource Central: White PapersExternal url:...
View ArticleNew Philips, Navican platform hopes to give all hospitals access to precision...
Royal Philips and Navican are deploying a precision health informatics package that makes it possible for hospitals and health systems worldwide to access Intermountain’s precision medicine program in...
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Securing and Illuminating the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain
Sponsor: UnisysPrimary topic: Quality and SafetyTopic: Quality and SafetyResource Central: Upcoming WebinarsExternal url:...
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What happens when cybercriminals start hacking gene editing technology?
We've seen what happens when hospitals and healthcare providers are beset by massive ransomware attacks like WannaCry and Locky: disruption, paralysis, financial chaos and serious risks to patient...
View ArticleHackensack Meridian test Cota, Watson pilot to boost oncology clinical...
New Jersey-based healthcare system Hackensack Meridian Health is working with IBM Watson Health and Cota technology to give clinical decision support a boost.The plan is to pull Cota data into IBM...
View ArticlePopulation health: 'Let's leave CMS out of this,' experts say
NEW YORK – Population health management is approaching an impasse triggered by the difficulty for private and nonprofit hospitals, social welfare systems and public health entities to understand...
View ArticleSurescripts sees big boost in e-prescribing, patient data transfer
Healthcare information network Surescripts on Wednesday reported big jumps in the number of transactions and electronic prescriptions across its system since a year ago.“We started with e-prescribing,...
View ArticlePatient safety jeopardized by EHR downtime, JAMA says
Downtime events in hospitals that shut down the functionality of the electronic health record can result in serious patient safety risks, according to a recently published study in the Journal of the...
View ArticleNQF maps out measures for interoperability
The National Quality Forum moved closer to finalizing a framework for measuring interoperability. NQF said the framework will help identify in the nation’s progress to enable widespread health data...
View ArticleDrones beat EMS teams to heart attack victims in test
Drones delivering automated external defibrillators reached heart attack victims as much as 17 minutes faster than emergency medical services teams in a small research program.The eight-rotor drone was...
View ArticleHackensack Meridian Health joins forces with New Jersey Institute of...
Hackensack Meridian Health is the first member of a new incubator program from the The New Jersey Innovation Institute.NJII, part of the New Jersey Institute of Technology, launched the Ideation...
View ArticleHTM and IT: Cooperation is crucial in managing medical devices
AnalyticsClinicalElectronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Medical DevicesMobileQuality and SafetyWomen In Health ITFeeding data directly from a medical device into medical records has reduced errors,...
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The biggest healthcare breaches of 2017 (so far)
Topic: Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Network InfrastructurePrivacy & SecurityQuality and SafetyAuthor: Jessica DavisSlideshow Image:...
View ArticleThis is the top tech for quality improvement under MACRA, KLAS says
The new MACRA rule may promise more flexibility with regard to EHR use and measure reporting, but the program still puts a premium on quality of care and improved patient outcomes. A timely new report...
View ArticleHow Kaiser Permanente tied its EHR, CPOE and bar code tools together to cut...
Medication errors have dropped and the number of nurses using bar code medication administration systems and physicians using computerized order entry systems has soared at Kaiser Permanente, which...
View ArticleHealthcare AI poised for explosive growth, big cost savings
Artificial intelligence "is rewiring our modern conception of healthcare delivery," according to a new Accenture report that shows an array of clinical AI applications are already well on their way to...
View ArticleGAO: VA clinical quality measures are flawed, data incomplete
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ clinical quality measures are incomplete and provide an inaccurate reflection of clinical measures, according to a new report from the U.S. Government...
View ArticleLeapfrog Group CEO Leah Binder joins Knowledge to Practice advisory board
Leah Binder, president and CEO of the Leapfrog Group, has joined the board of directors of Knowledge to Practice, an Ed-Tech firm that uses competency-based, personalized, adaptive curricula to...
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