“The 21st Century Cures Act [H.R.6 — 114th Congress (2015-2016)] requires that certified health IT products have an application programming interface that allows health data to be accessed and exchanged. The provision could shape the way that physicians and patients… Read more
“In medicine, code blues — which are used in hospitals to indicate that a patient needs immediate resuscitation, usually due to a heart attack or respiratory collapse, for example — often mean death for the patient despite the medical staff’s… Read more
“A worldwide ransomware attack hit organizations across multiple continents Friday, with preliminary evidence showing infections in at least 14 countries, according to Reuters. No hospitals in the United States have reported experiencing an attack as of 2:30 p.m. CST, however,… Read more
“The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act required all public and private health care providers to adopt electronic medical records (EMR) by January 1, 2014, in order to maintaintheir existing Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement levels. This EMR mandate spurred significant growth… Read more
“Healthcare has entered the era of “Compliance 2.0,” fueled by information technology and analytics designed to root out fraud, contends Daniel Levinson, Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services. Levinson, who has headed the HHS OIG for… Read more
“Many organizations are making headway with cloud-based services. VMware polled the round table attendees during the discussion and found: • 33 percent said between 0 percent and 10 recent of their applications are with a cloud-based provider • 11 percent… Read more
“As healthcare moves away from a fee-for-service (FFS) model to a value-based model, the very nature of how health records are sourced and utilized is also changing. With the advent of the longitudinal patient record (LPR) and community care plan… Read more
“The successful implementation of real-time patient safety initiatives have long been a goal of health system CIOs. Unfortunately, parsing notifications from individual medical devices, reliance on physical spot checks of patients, and the lack of rules-based analytics to assess a… Read more
”When we in the industry discuss the concept of interoperability, we are most often talking about it from the perspective of a healthcare organization. We want the data that we collect to be visible, actionable and presented in context. We… Read more
”My own induction into diagnosis began in the fall of 1997, in Boston, as I started my clinical rotations. To prepare, I read a textbook, a classic in medical education, that divided the act of diagnosis into four tidy phases…. Read more