Global health system leaders are prioritizing efficiency, productivity, and patient engagement in 2025 as they navigate financial constraints, workforce shortages, and growing consumer expectations.A Deloitte global survey of more than 120 C-suite executives found…
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With the increasing digital transformation of healthcare and improvements in the quality of data, IT systems in healthcare are becoming an increasingly attractive target for malicious actors. A cyberattack can cripple an institution, cause…
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The HIMSS25 exhibit hall in Las Vegas will be filled with many hundreds vendors of all stripes, showing off new technologies for a wide array of healthcare use cases. And you can probably guess…
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Data from the Patient Digital Engagement Index tool in use with athenahealth electronic health records showed healthcare practices with higher patient digital engagement experience improved financial performance and saw a reduction in time spent on…
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Just four months before the end of her term, Margie Apa stepped down from her position as chief executive of Te Whatu Ora (Health New Zealand). She will be replaced in the interim by Dr…
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Healthcare organizations continue to face ongoing challenges related to clinician turnover – driven in large part by burnout and dissatisfaction with electronic health records.Beyond that human toll, the financial repercussions of turnover are substantial…
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The Food is Medicine Institute at Tufts University is collaborating with Kaiser Permanente to create the new Food is Medicine National Network of Excellence. Joining the effort are several other major healthcare organizations including Geisinger, Highmark…
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QUAS employees interview almost every clinician before signing them up to use their ambient voice transcription product, and conducts another half-hour interview after the clinician has tried it for a while. Through this "pipeline of…
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Nurse practitioners are being asked to do more and more in the healthcare delivery process. And like physicians, they have to deal with the impacts of healthcare information technology every day. And today that…
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‘Open Hospitals’ live in Queensland The Queensland government has launched an online portal for tracking wait times and patients in line for treatments at emergency departments in near real-time.
The Open Hospitals portal, updated every 15-30…
