Why the CMO of an Ascension Regional Hospital Likes Wellsheet
Dr. Mario Pulido, chief medical officer, of Ascension St. Vincents, explains why he believes tools like Wellsheet makes the hospital care team's job so much easier.
Navigating Healthcare’s New Era of Algorithmic Transparency
What EHR/EMR vendors need to know to comply with ONC’s HTI-1 final rule
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Market Trends to Watch for Health Systems and Their Specialty Pharmacies
The future looks bright for the integrated specialty pharmacy model – for health systems, providers, and most importantly, for patients.
Anti-Information Blocking Fines Are Coming Later This Summer — Here’s What You Need to Know
The OIG recently added some teeth to the anti-information blocking regulations laid out in the 21st Century Cures Act. The office finalized penalties, including fines of up to $1 million for health IT companies found blocking the electronic flow of health data. Interoperability expert Troy Bannister said that these fines are a good starting point for ensuring greater interoperability, but he isn’t too sure the OIG will be able to effectively enforce them.
Solving EHR’s ‘Last Mile’ Problem
The healthcare industry needs a regulated system that can live in between the health information management and release of information departments. It is time for both sides of this network to fully address the need to create a digital pipeline that delivers the request of information and records between two parties.
A Changing Economy: Why Managed Services Can Help You Do More, Faster
Whether it’s application services for your EMR, service desk support, staffing, or any other host of needs, a managed services partner can take your organization to the next level while providing one thing money can’t buy—peace of mind.
5 steps to develop a dashboard to better manage your operations
How do organizations optimize and scale business intelligence? Here are five basic steps to consider when developing dashboards to assess your operational, financial and quality components within the care at home industry.
Reducing Clinical and Staff Burnout with AI Automation
As technology advances, AI-powered tools will increasingly reduce the administrative burdens on healthcare providers.
Stanford spinout raises $14M for its point-of-care physician consult service
Atropos Health, a startup spun out of Stanford University that provides point-of-care physician consults, recently raised $14 million in Series A funding. The company will use the money to further develop the oncology consult product it is building with ASCO, as well as grow its commercial team.
Canvas Medical rakes in $24M, earns ONC certification for API
EMR startup Canvas Medical recently raised $24 million in a Series B funding round and became the first EMR company founded in the past two decades to be federally certified by the ONC. The startup's customers are now eligible for value-based payment models in Medicare and Medicaid programs.
To improve EMR satisfaction, work on speed and reliability first
Providers would be wise to improve their EMR system response time and reliability, as these two measures critically influence clinician satisfaction. These improvements are acutely needed amid healthcare’s workforce shortage — burnout and EMR dissatisfaction are key factors associated with clinicians' likelihood to resign.
New EMR report shows Cerner continuing to lose market share in the U.S. despite what Feinberg said
The 2022 U.S. Hospital Market Share report from KLAS states that other than government contracts, "no net-new large health systems have selected Cerner since 2013" though the EMR vendor scored big among small hospitals with less than 200 beds. MEDITECH had major wins among small and large hospitals.
The Funding Model for Cancer Innovation is Broken — We Can Fix It
Closing cancer health equity gaps require medical breakthroughs made possible by new funding approaches.
UPMC spins out AI-driven analytics company focused on chronic disease patients
Realyze Intelligence, incubated at and funded by UPMC Enterprises, provides a platform that uses EMR data to identify chronic disease patients and help clinicians link them to appropriate treatment options. The platform leverages not only the structured data available in EMRs but also unstructured clinical notes.
Global EMR purchasing remained robust during pandemic, with Epic in the lead
Epic led global, non-U.S. EMR purchasing in 2020, a year that saw strong activity in the arena despite the pandemic. But certain regions did experience a downswing, including Latin America, where Brazil saw a 50% drop in EMR purchasing.
Addressing the missing link in value-based care: Timely, contextualized data in the workflow
In an interview, Holon Solutions CEO Jon Zimmerman shared some insights on his 40-year career and how his experience aided the development of Holon’s approach to precision information delivery.
Getting healthcare enterprise AI data to deliver
When we talk about artificial intelligence, the truth is most physicians aren’t using it.What we need now is for developers and tech executives to stop designing theoretical solutions, and instead place physicians, patients, and specific clinical needs at the center of their solutions.
3 strategies to manage digital health data
The value of digital health data is as vast as its volume – but only if it can be unlocked, managed, and ultimately shared for the greater good.