The following is a guest article by Kate Barecchia, Global Data Privacy Officer at Imperva.
For many of us, change is hard. In cybersecurity, change is essential to defeat two of the most common causes…
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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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The following is a guest article by John Gaede, Director of Information Systems at Sky Lakes Medical Center.
Imagine a rural business is the victim of a cyberattack. A nefarious person or group convinces an…
Happy President’s Day!
I hope that each of you has had a wonderful holiday. A massive thank you to all of those in healthcare who are still working on the holiday.
I thought this quote from…
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated digital transformation within healthcare, becoming a strategic part of improving care.As a preview of his HIMSS23 presentation, Dr. Jong Soo Choi, information technology lead at Samsung Medical Center, discussed SMC’s embedded technology with MobiHealthNews via email.
MobiHealthNews: How has Samsung Medical Center shifted its technology use over time?
Dr. Jong…
Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.
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A survey of 2,600 AHIMA members found that about 80% of healthcare organizations are collecting social determinants of health data. The bad news: Organizations face multiple challenges…
Be part of the most exciting week in healthcare at #HIMSS23 in Chicago!HIMSS23 is the can’t-miss health information and technology event of the year, where professionals connect for education, innovation and collaboration.Are you ready?Join us April 17-21, 2023: https://bit.ly/3ke9rip…
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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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Vietnamese healthcare AI developer VinBrain has started a new partnership with Stanford University to enhance AI medical imaging.Based on their latest data use agreement, Stanford will initially provide VinBrain access to about 240,000 anonymised medical images and reports to train and test the AI on its DrAid clinical decision support platform while also helping improve the accuracy of an information extracting method for structuring radiology reports called RadGraph.
WHY IT MATTERS
According to VinBrain, its latest partnership with Stanford aims to enhance efficiency in radiology reports while “tackling complexity, ambiguity, and limitations in medical image interpretation.”
Through Stanford’s support, the company will be able…
At a recent conference, I had a chance to chat with Atul Singh, General Manager, Digital Health at LG Electronics about their relatively recent virtual care solution with Amwell. It makes a lot of sense why Amwell and LG would want to work together. Many hospitals and healthcare organizations have already installed LG TVs in their organizations or they will as they build new hospitals or update their existing exam rooms. Those TVs often act as a hub of information for a patient and increasingly are becoming a patients connection with their nurses and doctors.Given that final piece, LG and Amwell…
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