As healthcare organizations comply with the federal EPCS mandate, artificial intelligence and digital identity technologies should be utilized to detect, reduce, and remediate drug diversion.
After announcing plans to collaborate at HIMSS, Google Health and Meditech executives explain why bringing search capability to the EHR helps to not only aggregate patient data from different settings, but present a comprehensive patient view to clinicians.
As technology advances, AI-powered tools will increasingly reduce the administrative burdens on healthcare providers.
Even with EHRs, notes are still written down on paper and some critical communication never happens between clinicians. To reduce medical errors, we need to keep improving our systems for collaboration.
A New Jersey bucked the norm of buying the off-the-shelf EHR software from the large electronic health records vendors like Epic and Cerner and built something more aligned with what was needed.
The startup, which is focused on letting patients share their health records for rare disease research, plans to use the funds to launch 100 rare disease programs.
The value of tech-enablement in a clinician’s day-to-day goes beyond our current outbreak scenarios. So much is still done by hand and faxed around that it screams of mid-90s nostalgia, but not in a charming way.
The future looks bright for the integrated specialty pharmacy model – for health systems, providers, and most importantly, for patients.
After Google struck a controversial partnership with Ascension to build a searchable health record, the companies are now launching an expanded clinical pilot of the tool. Now, about 250 clinicians will be able to use it.
Just like with the drive for Open Banking, Open Healthcare presents huge opportunities but a strategy and governance together with an open platform needs to be in place to gain trust with healthcare members to put the patient back at the center,
HHS dropped two final rules on interoperability on Monday, requiring healthcare providers and payers to make it easier for patients to access their health information. The rules were changed to give providers more time to come into compliance, but still raise questions about patient privacy.
Misuse of surgical staplers led the ECRI Institute's Top 10 Technology Hazards report for 2020. Earlier this year, the FDA revealed 11,181 serious injuries related to stapler incidents had been reported in the last decade.
Closing cancer health equity gaps require medical breakthroughs made possible by new funding approaches.
Ciitizen, based in Palo Alto, California, published a report card that uses a five-star system to rate how health care providers comply with federal rules governing record requests.
The tech giant would provide engineering support to the VA and develop certain software tools that enable veterans to transfer their medical records to iPhones, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.
Called the Health Record Request Wizard, the tool streamlines the process patients go through when they want to request their medical records.
The company's initial focus will be on neurological and inherited metabolic disorders.
Miki Kapoor replaces Doug Foster, who will continue as chief strategy officer of the San Francisco-based company.