Can the EHR be fixed by eliminating typing and clicking?
In a recent Harvard Business Review article, two prominent healthcare experts call for fixing what is wrong with electronic health records. And they find a lot wrong. As they see it, if an array...
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The Impact of Interruptions on Clinician Stress and Burnout - and What You...
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Store, Protect and Optimize Your Healthcare Data
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View ArticlePatient safety check-up: Promise, progress and a need for vigilance
Long-time patient safety advocate Tejal Gandhi, MD, has seen the U.S. health system improve when it comes to patient safety over the past 15 to 20 years. But it's harder to nail down just how fast, she...
View ArticleHow Cleveland Clinic CIO Ed Marx helps his staff navigate change
Like so much else in healthcare, the role of the hospital chief information officer is changing in profound and far-reaching ways.It's a phenomenon we explored recently in our feature about the modern...
View ArticleWhere AI has the most promise for reducing healthcare costs
The United States spends a larger percentage of its gross domestic product on healthcare than other wealthy countries, yet the nation’s health outcomes are worse. And while that is an oft-cited...
View ArticleRice researchers unveil augmented reality app to help with Parkinson's...
Engineering students at Rice University have created a new iPhone app they say could help patients with Parkinson's manage a symptom of the disease called "freezing," a temporary and involuntary...
View ArticleECRI Institute launches tool to help EHR vendors track patient safety
ECRI Institute, through the multi-stakeholder Partnership for Health IT Patient Safety it convened in 2014, has announced a new tool to help electronic health record and other IT vendors assess how...
View ArticleHow NYU Langone tweaked its Epic EHR for value-based care, saving millions
Health information technology can do a lot to improve care processes, drive better patient outcomes and bolster the bottom line. But sometimes – with the right adjustments and a committed all-hands...
View ArticleFDA medical device plan zeros in on cybersecurity, public-private partnership
The Food and Drug Administration released its plan to improve medical device safety, which includes a reorganization of its medical device center and a Congressional plan to launch a public-private...
View ArticleInternational community care models offer many lessons for US, Mount Sinai...
Millions of Americans today have the same life expectancy as the national average in the 1970s. But the U.S. can boost life expectancy by learning from other countries, according to a new task force...
View ArticleDEA partners with states to share prescription data in opioid fight
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency has launched a coalition in partnership with 48 states, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., to share prescription drug information in support of ongoing...
View ArticleHow a single source of truth database is helping one health system drive...
Health Quest, a Hudson Valley-based health system comprising four hospitals and provider organizations, decided it needed a single source of truth database where it could send its staff for projects...
View ArticleCan Lean methodology help improve EHR documentation?
Clinical documentation improvement has been a major focus of many health systems' value-based care initiatives. But getting to more efficient and more accurate charting, especially for providers using...
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AI: A data scientist explains how deep and shallow learning can work together...
For all the hype and excited pronouncements about the impacts it can have driving healthcare efficiencies, artificial intelligence is still not deployed as widely (or wisely) as it could be.But many...
View ArticleSenators say Trump censored LGBT health information on HHS and other...
Democratic Senators called out the White House for removing LGBT health information from government websites, including from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Women’s Health in...
View ArticleIBM Watson Health ranks top 15 hospitals
IBM Watson Health has revealed its 15 Top Health Systems based on overall organizational performance. Formerly known as the Truven Health Analytics 15 Top Health Systems, the rankings have been...
View ArticlePutting predictive analytics and medical device data to work reducing a...
Can predictive analytics, fueled by real-time medical device data, accurately identify patients at-risk for post-op respiratory depression without inducing alarm fatigue in clinicians? That was the...
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Population health program leverages social determinant data with help of...
In 2013, Earnest Carter, MD, deputy health officer of Maryland's Prince George's County Health Department, sought and received grant funding to improve population health in the community. His vision...
View ArticleFDA chief sees big things for AI in healthcare
At AcademyHealth’s 2018 Health Datapalooza on Thursday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration offered a vote of confidence for artificial intelligence in healthcare, promising more refined strategies...
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