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Cerebral announces its third round of layoffs in the past few months as the beleaguered direct-to-consumer telemedicine company attempts to reorganize and streamline its services.
Cerebral has struggled since the federal government launched an…
By Shania Kennedy
February 28, 2023 – New Jersey-based AtlantiCare is deploying pre-operative artificial intelligence (AI) assessment tools and robotic bronchoscopy techniques to support early lung cancer diagnosis and treatment.
The health system will leverage…
There are so many challenges that we are currently facing in the world of healthcare, that possibly adding another one is overwhelming to think about. AI automation is still so new that it’s hard…
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With increasing costs and changing reimbursements for long term care (LTC) delivery, scrutiny of EHR vendor value is high. A recent KLAS report revealed that among fully rated vendors, customers ranked PointClickCare highest overall…
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– With high levels of clinician burnout across the care continuum, healthcare organizations are leveraging EHR implementations for clinical workflow optimization. FAMILY CLINIC MOVES TO ECLINICALWORKS SYSTEM FOR SCALABILITY Care Choice Family Clinic, PLLC in Plano, TX, will implement a health IT system from EHR vendor eClinicalWorks’ to customize workflows and improve operational efficiency. The implementation is set to allow the new family practice to deliver comprehensive patient care and scale as needed. Care Choice Family Clinic cares for patients two years old and up, focusing on primary care, sick visits, and minor urgent care. “I had experience with eClinicalWorks at…
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The CDS Coalition is asking the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to pull back on its clinical decision support guidance in order to ensure that the agency better balances its regulatory oversight with the healthcare sector’s need for innovation, while comporting with the statutory language of the 21st Century Cures Act. ‘Flagrant’ disregard for Congressional law and intent
The coalition’s stakeholders – clinical decision support software developers, patient advocacy organizations, clinical societies, healthcare providers and healthcare payers – say the FDA’s guidance exceeds Congress’s statutory definitions of what is considered CDS and threatens to undermine lawmakers’ goals.
“The Office of the National Coordinator for…
openEHR is an open standard specification in health informatics that describes the management and storage, retrieval and exchange of health data in electronic health records (EHRs). In openEHR, all health data for a person is stored in a “one lifetime”, vendor-independent, person-centred EHR. The openEHR specifications include an EHR Extract specification but are otherwise not primarily concerned with the exchange of data between EHR-systems as this is the focus of other standards such as EN 13606 and HL7.
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