Healthcare has evolved significantly over the past decade. The widespread adoption of connected devices and cloud services has changed the way care is delivered and improved patient outcomes. These changes have been accompanied by…
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Heather Bassett, M.D., Chief Medical Officer, XSOLISToday’s relationship between payers and providers is more fraught than ever. With a history of transactional, often adversarial, fee-for-service contract negotiations, it’s no wonder that the healthcare industry…
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ONC publishes “Social Determinants of Health Information Exchange Toolkit.”
Reader Comments From NY CIO: “Re: Northwell Health. Word is it will announce its move to Epic and that it will bring a large…
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BroadbandOhio, a division of the Ohio Department of Development, selected OCHIN as its statewide telehealth administrator to help expand healthcare services for Ohio’s K-12 students.WHY IT MATTERS
The new initiative aims to help administrators in…
Developed using OpenAI’s ChatGPT and trained on healthcare-specific prose, the online DocsGPT offers doctors a chance to test and weigh in on AI-powered product development. Testing AI for workflow ‘scut’
OpenAI developed ChatGPT, which launched in…
Harness the true power of the data!
Yes. That’s the ultimate goal of Business intelligence (BI).
BI has the potential to unlock endless possibilities for the healthcare industry to thrive.
In other words, data is evolving as a new diagnostic tool in healthcare.
That’s the reason, healthcare organizations, startups, enterprises, and individuals are…
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The VA postpones its planned July 2023 Oracle Cerner go-live at its Ann Arbor, MI facilities until later this year or early in 2024.
The service region is concerned about “how well EHRM would interact with VA Ann Arbor’s vital medical research mission.”
Reader Comments From AT: “Re: pet peeves with service industry words and phrases. ‘I appreciate you,’ following my thanking you and leaving you a tip, which suggests that we are like-minded, decent people even though you have no way of knowing that. Second is thanking someone with ‘of course,” implying that I’m either too stupid to know…
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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will further delay its Oracle Cerner EHR implementation at the agency’s Ann Arbor Healthcare System until late 2023 or early 2024, according to reporting from FedScoop. Laura E….
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Unified communications and collaboration services vendor Avaya, whose healthcare offerings include solutions for virtual care, collaboration, and patient access technology, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy for the second time in six years.
The Durham, NC-based company reported lower than expected revenue and earnings last year, blaming accounting problems with its cloud subscription revenue, after which it replaced its CEO.
AVYA share price has dropped 98% in the past 12 months, valuing the company at $24 million.
Reader Comments From Baby Payer: “Re: IVF coverage. In an example of our messed up healthcare system, women are taking Amazon jobs and quitting after…
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The term “interoperability” holds different meanings for different people. While we all would agree that the primary goal of interoperability is to make sharing data easier in order to improve outcomes and lower costs, there are varying perceptions about what that looks like. FHIR has been great at giving us a common set of protocols and standards to work from, but how we connect and how data actually gets shared are still open challenges.
In a truly interoperable healthcare ecosystem, I strongly believe data wouldn’t need to be requested, aggregated, and validated each time it’s needed. And it wouldn’t be limited to specific…
