Features

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Electronic health record (EHR) management

• AI usage in healthcare upgrades imaging, analytics, automation

  Computer vision, deep learning and automation are making greater inroads into radiology, robot-assisted surgeries, virtual nursing assistants and fraud detection.  Continue Reading

• Meditech EHR moves to public cloud, points to industry trend

  When EHR vendor Meditech partnered with Google Cloud Platform, it joined Cerner in a push toward the public cloud. The trend presents new opportunities and new challenges for healthcare CIOs.  Continue Reading

• Proposed interoperability in healthcare rules called 'essential first step'

  Proposed rules are a good first step toward interoperability in healthcare, but don't go far enough, according to healthcare leaders.  Continue Reading

• Physician burnout eased with homegrown tech

  Kaiser Permanente fights fire with fire by developing digital tools to reduce technology-related physician burnout.  Continue Reading

• How CIOs can help alleviate EHR issues

  EHRs can be more problem than solution for healthcare organizations, but CIOs can help by talking to practitioners and holding vendors accountable.  Continue Reading

• Hospital taps Parachute Health to cut cord on fax machine

  New York City's Hospital for Special Surgery deployed software from Parachute Health Inc. to bring the fax machine directly to its EHR system.  Continue Reading

• Future of connected healthcare includes chatbots, Medicare changes

  Remote patient monitoring and chatbots will be mainstream in healthcare -- eventually. Partners HealthCare's Joseph Kvedar, M.D., offers his view on why it takes so long.  Continue Reading

• Learn about the leading EHR software products and their features

  Read in-depth about leading EHR tools on the market and how their capabilities, pricing and implementation offerings and mobile features can match up with organization needs.  Continue Reading

• Hospitals battle duplicate medical records with technology

  See how IT executives at two healthcare organizations weed out patient identification errors related to duplicate medical records -- a significant problem, according to research.  Continue Reading

• Considering a cloud-based EHR system? Here's what to know

  Implementing an EHR platform in the cloud can offer healthcare organizations lower costs and more accessibility, but they must be aware of connectivity and infrastructure drawbacks.  Continue Reading

• CoxHealth gains from outsourcing to Cerner ITWorks

  Cerner partners with more than 30 organizations to deliver outsourced IT operation management. One of those systems, CoxHealth, got faster, more stable IT management model.  Continue Reading

• The importance of EHR tools in today's healthcare industry

  A strong EHR system can effectively acquire and centralize vital patient information like lab orders, medications, medical history and referrals, if buyers know what they need.  Continue Reading

• Opioid crisis solutions include analytics, EHR integration

  Health IT stands ready to help battle opioid deaths through greater use of data analytics and improved integration of EHRs and prescription drug databases.  Continue Reading

• Why the healthcare BAA makes the cloud journey much tougher

  Applying public cloud to healthcare can create a brave new world for hospitals. The CTO of Providence Health & Services strongly advises reading the healthcare BAA very carefully.  Continue Reading

• Healthcare digital transformation maps the new patient journey

  The modern patient experience features flavors of consumerism combined with healthcare data. Giving patients greater access to that information is one area in which technology options thrive.  Continue Reading