How VA CIO Kurt DelBene is leading the agency's digital transformation
Secretary for Information and Technology and Chief Information Officer Kurt DelBene says his goal is to make the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs the model of what it means to be a modern IT shop in...
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View ArticleTelehealth now serves unmet needs, says athenahealth
Increased telehealth utilization points to wider use as a diagnostic and triage tool, particularly among those with chronic conditions.WHY IT MATTERSNew research, based on a Dynata survey of 2,000 U.S....
View ArticleHI-BRIDGE HIE, Wellpath partner on Georgia Correction's EHRs
A new Wellpath alliance with the Morehouse School of Medicine and the HI-BRIDGE Health Information Exchange will share real-time correctional patient health information to improve inmate patient care...
View ArticleDEI in patient education improves engagement, lowers costs
Incorporating diversity into channels and platforms like Emmi, Wolters Kluwer Health's patient-facing personalized education tool leveraged by providers, payers and partners, is about empowering and...
View ArticleThe AI Bill of Rights: Defining fairness and privacy by design
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy set its expectations of automated system development based on five principles guiding design, use and deployment in its "Blueprint for an AI Bill...
View ArticleGuidelines for use of AI in healthcare are on track, says CHAI
The Coalition for AI Health has announced it will meet this month to finalize its consensus-driven framework and share recommendations by year-end in a progress update.WHY IT MATTERSCHAI convened in...
View ArticleAI in healthcare: from full-body scanning to fall prevention
Deepak Gaddipati is founder and chief technology officer at VirtuSense, an artificial intelligence company that aims to transform healthcare from reactive to proactive, alerting care teams of adverse...
View ArticleMicrosoft releases data-driven updates for healthcare cloud
Microsoft this week unveiled new capabilities to help solve some common roadblocks to enhancing patient engagement and effective health team collaboration, and to help support healthcare organizations...
View ArticleHIMSSCast: How IT is helping with nurse onboarding and other workforce...
Like most U.S. health systems, Hackensack Meridian Health, the biggest in New Jersey, has managed throughout the pandemic by adding new nurses to augment its workforce. But quickly onboarding hundreds...
View ArticleUniversity of Tennessee Medical Center automates entire room turnover process
Finding the balance between capacity and demand is tough in any healthcare environment. Hospitals and health systems continue to face challenges with workforce management, patient flow, and real-time...
View ArticleWhat an eventual end to the PHE would mean for telehealth
Since the COVID-19 public health emergency was declared in 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services has renewed the legislation every 90 days. Close to the end of the most recent expiration...
View ArticleBreast cancer technologies that improve patient outcomes
Great strides have been made over the last few decades that see more women and men surviving breast cancer, but the journey leaves survivors with physical, mental and emotional impacts that can take...
View ArticleAllina Health spinoff to help health systems build hospital-at-home programs
Minneapolis-based Allina Health, working with Flare Capital Partners, has launched a new company, Inbound Health, designed to help health systems and payers design and build hospital-at-home and...
View ArticleThe role of care orchestration tools in personalizing care and reducing workload
In the health IT world, care orchestration has been called the response to the inability of EHRs to consistently coordinate care for both caregivers and patients. Care orchestration is a concept that...
View ArticleHenry Ford makes homegrown Rx platform available to health systems nationwide
A specialty pharmacy platform, developed in 2013 by Detroit-based Henry Ford Health to help address a unique need, is now available for other health system customers across the country.WHY IT MATTERS...
View ArticleHIMSS promotes key policies on telehealth expansion, maternal health
HIMSS is calling on healthcare stakeholders to get involved in two initiatives to help expand access to quality care for underserved and at-risk populations.As part of its Global Health Equity Week,...
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Data storage, backup and recovery tech notches multiple wins for St. Joseph's...
When Jesse Fasolo joined St. Joseph's Health as director of technology infrastructure and cybersecurity, the existing technological infrastructure needed to be addressed.THE PROBLEMThe primary concern...
View ArticleIndiana University building a medical device security lab with TriMedX
Indiana University Health is working with TriMedX to create a new cybersecurity lab that will assess and test medical device security, in hopes of reducing cybersecurity threats as part of the devices'...
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