How technology can help providers fight back against the opioid epidemic
Healthcare information technology has opened new doors to understanding opioid addiction, but there still are areas where data and innovation can help medical professionals better handle this crisis,...
View ArticleStudy: Many digital health startups lack clinical trials, regulatory filings
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View ArticleHIMSSCast: Toward a more human-centered approach to hospital stays
Rebecca Pinn, director of innovation strategy at EPAM Continuum, specializes in creative thinking about experience design. She also recently had an extended hospital stay that gave her time to do some...
View ArticleConnecting with members with a customer data platform for payers
Today, technology has revolutionized the member experience. It’s opened up completely new ways to deliver exceptional moments that build patient-insurer relationships. These innovations are in response...
View ArticleSupreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade
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View ArticleImproving rural care and health equity with telemedicine
Virtual care has great potential to improve rural health and health equity.Virtual care can either serve to stretch the capabilities of understaffed rural clinics – for example, by pre-screening or...
View ArticleHIMSS case studies collection highlights APAC firsts
HIMSS has released its latest case studies collection in Asia-Pacific which puts a spotlight on major digital health milestones in the region. The second edition of the quarterly Digital Excellence in...
View ArticleEvolving patient portals, remote workforce challenges and tech at the bedside
Patient portal use and telehealth visits have changed dramatically since the COVID-19 pandemic turned the world, especially healthcare, upside down.Kerry Barker, RN, manager, Epic services, at...
View ArticleHow RTLS security can protect healthcare workers and reduce burnout
Violent incidents at healthcare provider organizations, especially the emergency department, are not unusual, with incidents large and small involving patients, care providers and staff occurring daily...
View ArticleAt CommonSpirit Health, telebehavioral care decreases length of stay, cuts costs
Timely access to mental healthcare, especially in rural areas, has long been a concern. There is not only a scarcity of providers as fewer people are going into the profession, but emergency...
View ArticleFeds warn of North Korean ransomware threat to healthcare organizations
North Korea-sponsored hackers have been targeting the healthcare and public health sector in the U.S. for more than a year, according to a July 6 alert from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure...
View ArticleHIMSSCast: ATA CEO says telehealth future is hybrid, outlines policy...
Ann Mond Johnson is one of the top telehealth experts in the country. As CEO of the American Telemedicine Association, her work covers every aspect of this technological delivery of healthcare that has...
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The Indiana Health Information Exchange stays on the cutting edge
Indiana has a long history of health information exchange, shaped with the help of the Regenstrief Institute and the Indiana Health Information Exchange.This history began in the 1970s, when the...
View ArticleNorthwell and Google Cloud partner to automate workflows, identify health...
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View ArticleOIG report on VHA finds 'multiple events of patient harm' in Oracle Cerner EHR
The final version of the VA Office of Inspector General's report on the electronic health record deployment at Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center was published on July 14.As was noted when a draft of...
View ArticleHIMSSCast: What does the future of AI in healthcare look like?
The avenues of artificial intelligence and machine learning research are expanding widely and rapidly. Meta says it plans to tailor its AI explorations by analyzing the structures and networks of the...
View ArticleNurse workplace violence and how technology can help
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, violence against clinicians was a pressing concern for the healthcare industry – with violence about four times more prevalent in healthcare than in any other...
View ArticleKey takeaways from the Philips Future Health Index 2022
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View ArticleMaineHealth turned a COVID-19 grant into a permanent telehealth program
Similar to many health systems across the country, COVID-19 created an urgent need for MaineHealth to take care of patients at a distance to keep patients and care teams safe.THE PROBLEM"This was...
View ArticleUT Austin, MITRE team up on ethical AI initiative
The University of Texas at Austin is working with the MITRE Corporation on a new partnership to develop more innovative and ethical artificial intelligence research.WHY IT MATTERS The project is...
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