HIMSS this month announced another round of winners for its HIMSS Davies Award of Excellence, which recognizes health systems for their innovative applications of information and technology for improved care delivery, better health outcomes…
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When I first discovered Synapse Medicine, I was fascinated by the depth of work they had done to handle prescriptions and clinical decision support in their system. Since their system was and is being…
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The following is a guest article by Holly Miller, President at Collette Health (formerly MedSitter)
Amid the many challenges in healthcare, an emerging central theme is how to balance technological innovation with a compassionate human…
Get a glimpse of the healthcare IT research KLAS published during the month of August. All the insights KLAS uses come from the anonymous feedback of thousands of healthcare professionals using healthcare IT solutions…
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By Hannah Nelson
September 14, 2023 – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and EHR vendor Oracle Cerner are planning to resume the agency’s EHR modernization in the summer of 2024, according to reporting from FedScoop.
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Safeguards to ensure patient data is handled ethically are essential, writes Proximie’s Nadine Hachach-Haram, a speaker at next month’s Digital Health Data & AI eventThe recent infusion of £21 million by the UK government…
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Inefficiently designed Electronic Health Records (EHRs) pose significant patient safety risks, as University of Utah Health research reveals. Poor EHR usability contributes to alert fatigue and failure to identify critical errors. Hospitals must conduct…
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“Hospitals and health systems have spent more than $100 billion on EHRs over the last decade, and most believe that these systems are completely safe and usable but that is not necessarily the case,”…
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By Hannah Nelson
September 13, 2023 – The Senate has confirmed Tanya Bradsher to serve as deputy secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), making her the top official in charge of the EHR modernization…
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Much like the original fall of Babylon two and a half millennia ago, the collapse of Babylon Health was an inevitable end to an untenable empire. It grew too fast, without enough regard for patient…
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