Rush UMC sues Draeger for $18 million over patient monitoring system
Chicago's Rush University Medical Center has filed a lawsuit against Draeger, charging that the patient monitoring system it spent four years and $18 million trying to make work has failed to live up...
View ArticleDigital divide widening in hospital EHR deployments, report says
Meaningful use has done its job: More than 96 percent of U.S. hospitals are by now using certified electronic health records, according to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. But are...
View ArticleHow smart pump EHR integration could save a community hospital $2 million
Dave Baumgardner, chief information officer at Dover, Ohio-based Union Hospital, said there was one primary driver for the decision to link the hospital's 160 or so smart infusion pumps with its...
View ArticleKLAS: Pros and cons of health IT systems for managing antibiotic resistance...
When it comes to helping hospitals intervene, track internal metrics and use antimicrobial stewardship systems to their fullest potential, certain vendors have varying points of strength and weakness....
View ArticleOchsner deploys robots to zap germs in fight against deadly hospital-acquired...
New Orleans-based Ochsner Medical Center is deploying robots to zap germs in its quest to prevent deadly hospital-acquired infections.The medical center, which is part of the 29-hospital Oschner Health...
View ArticleFDA final guidance on medical device interoperability highlights...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration this week released its final guidance for "smart, safe, and secure" interoperability, both among different medical devices and with IT systems.Developed using...
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Celebrating life of a patient advocate highlights need for patient access to...
Quality and SafetyWomen In Health ITFounder of The Walking Gallery of Healthcare honors friend and a leader who lent her voice to patients who needed to be heard.Regina HollidayOne year ago today,...
View ArticleMission Health will expand use of 3-D observation to eliminate patient falls
While one might think patient falls are inevitable in a hospital, health system Mission Health says it may may be able to eliminate the issue through the use of virtual 3-D observation technology. In...
View ArticlePeraHealth brings clinical surveillance tools to Epic's App Orchard
The newest addition to Epic's App Orchard is PeraHealth, whose real-time predictive analytics tool will be integrated through API into the electronic health record platform.PeraHealth's clinical...
View ArticleHHS to face audit of its own cybersecurity, incident response capabilities
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General plans to look into the state of HHS cybersecurity, to determine whether it “has sufficiently implemented incident response...
View ArticleNQF uncovers diagnostic errors, says EHRs not equipped to help
A new report from the National Quality Forum reveals that 5 percent or more patients in the U.S are being incorrectly diagnosed.Those diagnoses contribute to nearly 10 percent of deaths annually, and...
View ArticleAMA president weighs the pros and cons of MACRA, MIPS
With the Merit-Based Incentive System and the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act, the federal government is beginning to harmonize programs to simplify reporting, decrease the number of...
View ArticleBaptist Health tele-ICU enables around-the-clock intensivist oversight
Baptist Health Corbin is the first of eight hospitals at Louisville, Kentucky-based Baptist Health system to launch a tele-ICU.Using technology from Advanced ICU Care, which specializes in high-acuity...
View ArticleDespite deregulation, we won't let EHR makers run wild, ONC chief promises
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s plans to change the ONC Health IT Certification Program has sparked some important questions. Wouldn’t allowing vendors to now simply say they're...
View ArticleStanford Children's Health, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford win...
Stanford Children's Health and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford have been awarded the 2017 Enterprise Nicholas E. Davies Award of Excellence for outstanding achievement in using health...
View ArticleIn wake of hurricanes, every CIO should revisit their HIE
Health Information Exchange (HIE)Quality and SafetyWomen In Health ITIn a medical crisis, clinicians need to know people’s medications, allergies, and medical histories to safely care for patients in...
View ArticleHow to improve clinical documentation
Hospitals and health systems trying to survive and thrive under value-based reimbursement realize that optimal clinical documentation is key to ensuring quality care and optimizing revenue cycle...
View ArticleHow Halifax Health combats sepsis: Surveillance, analytics, communications tech
Florida health system Halifax Health is battling sepsis with surveillance information technology that is the result of the teaming of Wolters Kluwer Health and Vocera Communications.The system links...
View ArticleEHR password sharing rampant among hospital staffs, study says
Despite all the resources invested in technology to protect the private patient information, a new study spotlights once again the vulnerability of human factors when it comes to healthcare data...
View ArticlePew to ONC: Fix pediatric EHRs to avoid dangerous medical mistakes
The Pew Charitable Trusts on Friday called on Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT head Donald Rucker, MD, to focus on electronic health records safety particular to pediatric patients as...
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