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• Learn the keys to buying medical imaging technology

  Today's medical imaging technology can help a healthcare organization achieve population health management. Here are the main factors to consider before purchasing a medical imaging system.  Continue Reading

• What to do when a new storage system requires an EHR migration

  Executing an EHR migration to a new storage platform can be a daunting task. Health IT experts from North York General Hospital share their experience and lessons learned.  Continue Reading

• Why medical imaging technology, such as VNAs, is necessary

  See how medical imaging technology, like VNAs and universal viewers, can help healthcare organizations execute patient enablement, population healthcare and other strategies.  Continue Reading

• Patient matching software works for Connecticut state agency

  A Connecticut state social services agency uses master patient index software to enable accurate patient matching for clients seeking behavioral and physical healthcare services.  Continue Reading

• ONC focuses on creating interoperability between health systems

  Although the creation of interoperability between health systems has been a goal for a while now, it's still not happening widely. ONC discussed plans to move interoperability forward.  Continue Reading

• Behavioral telehealth strategies and technologies

  Delivering behavioral telehealth services to people with behavioral health issues requires techniques and technologies designed specifically for this kind of healthcare.  Continue Reading

• What makes up a medical imaging system?

  PACS, VNAs, DICOM, XDS. Sort out this alphabet soup of medical imaging technology and see how these systems can help improve your healthcare organization.  Continue Reading

• Wisconsin provider uses Salesforce for healthcare marketing campaign

  A large Wisconsin health system has been using Salesforce Marketing Cloud for targeted email campaigns to keep patients engaged and to attract new patients.  Continue Reading

• Former Amazon exec discusses the consumerization of healthcare

  The consumerization of healthcare has gotten some buzz lately and now a former Amazon exec has entered the healthcare arena. He discusses ways to achieve consumerization.  Continue Reading

• Medical device safety needs to be given more attention, an expert says

  Medical devices pose a good deal of risk, experts say. One expert believes this is because the focus has been on patient privacy instead of the safety of medical devices.  Continue Reading

• Healthcare tablets pervasive in clinical and remote-monitoring venues

  As prices drop, tablet computers -- standard and hybrid models with keyboards -- are proliferating in healthcare settings ranging from clinical to chronically ill patients' homes.  Continue Reading

• Mobile devices in healthcare may one day appear 'invisible'

  For some CIOs, mobile devices in hospitals don't reach their full potential. Imagine a day when mobility becomes so intertwined with healthcare that it disappears into the background.  Continue Reading

• Patient engagement strategy heavily influences tech investment

  Hospital IT professionals are welcoming patient engagement technology, based on the results of a purchasing intentions survey by TechTarget and CHIME.  Continue Reading

• How technology can improve medical device safety in infusion pumps

  The proliferation of connected devices, like infusion pumps for medication delivery, has led to accuracy and safety issues. Improved software to manage the pumps may be the answer.  Continue Reading

• Secure text messaging keeps parents and providers informed

  A Tennessee children's hospital uses secure messaging to send parents updates about their child's health and to let providers know when a patient has arrived.  Continue Reading

• Secure messaging platform improves productivity for pediatric hospital

  A pediatric hospital in Tennessee uses secure messaging to send notifications ranging from lab results to inclement weather alerts, and to admit patients quickly from the ER.  Continue Reading

• Health IT analytics helps optimize big physician practice's operations

  A big pediatrics practice uses advanced analytics to optimize marketing, purchasing, billing, productivity and care quality. These analytics insights help the practice save money.  Continue Reading

• Telehealth technologies help save healthcare organization $4.6 million and more

  Telehealth technology has the ability to help healthcare organizations save money, reduce costs and achieve better patient outcomes. That's what Emory Healthcare discovered.  Continue Reading

• Connected care a focus for CEO of Philips North America

  For Brent Shafer, CEO of Philips North America, the name of the health IT game is connected care. Shafer explains that this is his focus professionally and personally.  Continue Reading

• Genomics in healthcare is ready now, experts say

  Despite some health IT experts saying that certain challenges are keeping genomics in healthcare from happening, there are other experts who believe it is possible to achieve now.  Continue Reading

• A review of electronic prior authorization technology

  Migrating to electronic prior authorization software offers a chance to improve revenue cycle operations and reduce complexity, which can be a win for all involved.  Continue Reading

• CIO: The benefits of blockchain technology will come to healthcare

  According to one CIO, blockchain has a ways to go before reaching maturity, but, eventually, it will provide great value to healthcare.  Continue Reading

• Effective genomic data analysis not possible without data integration

  Analyzing genomic data can provide many benefits when it comes to taking care of patients. Before that can happen, certain challenges need to be overcome.  Continue Reading

• AI in healthcare spurs advanced uses such as emotional intelligence

  Providers, pharmaceutical companies and other healthcare organizations are starting to use advanced AI technology to provide personalized context for care and post-treatment.  Continue Reading

• Adopt healthcare standards to be successful with informatics

  Healthcare standards are essential to many initiatives such as interoperability. However, as an expert from the VA explains, they are also important to informatics.  Continue Reading

• Explaining hyper-converged vs. converged infrastructures in healthcare

  A hospital details why hyper-convergence saved it money while boosting staff network access. The pros and cons of hyper-converged and converged options are also described.  Continue Reading

• Secure texting app helps healthcare orgs increase patient satisfaction

  For families waiting on a loved one undergoing a procedure in the OR, updates are their saving grace. A secure texting app provides updates right from the OR.  Continue Reading

• It's time to implement virtualization in healthcare, says an analyst

  If a hospital or health system hasn't implemented some form of virtualization, they need to start thinking about it, an analyst says. Virtualization in healthcare is not optional.  Continue Reading

• Cloud in healthcare boosts storage, mobility efforts

  Healthcare traditionally has been wary of cloud services, but improvements in security and more efficient mobile device management may help boost cloud adoption.  Continue Reading

• CIOs embrace the value of cloud computing in healthcare

  The cloud is crucial to many initiatives in healthcare, including value-based care, big data and patient engagement. CIOs recognize the importance of cloud computing and embrace it.  Continue Reading

• Hospital uses healthcare virtualization to transform digital strategy

  A CIO shares the benefits his hospital experienced using healthcare virtualization, including better patient experience, improved security and saving time.  Continue Reading

• CIOs becoming more comfortable with healthcare cloud security

  Healthcare cloud security has long been mistrusted by health IT professionals who had concerns about HIPAA compliance and more. This sentiment is beginning to change.  Continue Reading

• Hospital network security: Recursive DNS lookups yield threat insight

  Phishing attacks, clicking on malicious links and visiting malicious sites is a problem for hospital network security. One health system uses Cisco Umbrella to solve this problem.  Continue Reading

• Population health management platform uses AI, machine learning

  In this Innovation Spotlight SearchHealthIT takes a look at a population health management platform that is utilizing AI and machine learning.  Continue Reading

• Hospital provides patient access to health information at the bedside

  University of Colorado Health is securely providing patient access to health information at the bedside. Experts detail how they are able to achieve this and engage patients.  Continue Reading

• CIO looks at future of healthcare virtualization, its security benefits

  One CIO weighs in on a newer concept: healthcare virtualization. He discusses how he thinks this technology will evolve, as well as the security benefits it offers.  Continue Reading

• Essential population health management tools: HIE, CRM, data analytics

  With population health management tools, one size does not fit all and that's why it's important to include a mixture of technologies including HIEs, CRM and data analytics.  Continue Reading

• To solve lack of interoperability, health IT tries third-party apps, HIEs

  Many healthcare professionals are turning to third-party applications, the use of APIs and HIEs to overcome the lack of interoperability still present in healthcare.  Continue Reading

• Hospital uses intelligent virtual assistant for more accurate order entry

  When physicians juggle a lot of tasks, they can forget to place a necessary order. Artificial intelligence is helping one hospital system remedy this and avoid medical mistakes.  Continue Reading

• Work still to be done with real-time location services despite benefits

  Real-time location services offer many benefits in the healthcare setting. However, work still needs to be done in this area and with this technology. Experts from Kaiser Permanente explain.  Continue Reading

• New cybersecurity technologies can help providers prevent attacks

  While providers have made progress on cybersecurity, malware and insider threats are still rampant; newer technologies like access control and behavioral analytics are effective.  Continue Reading

• Enterprise imaging is becoming mainstream in healthcare

  While VNAs and PACS appear to be coexisting, enterprise imaging in healthcare is taking over from purely departmental and radiology centered approaches, according to a KLAS analyst.  Continue Reading

• Patient engagement in healthcare a key to value-based reimbursement

  With the advent of value-based care, patient engagement is becoming increasingly important to keep patients as long-term customers and get them involved in their own treatment.  Continue Reading

• Patient engagement tools bring consumer vibes to healthcare

  Patients are acting more like consumers and therefore have higher expectations of their healthcare providers. New technologies are needed to truly engage them.  Continue Reading

• Interoperability essential to population health management platform

  Interoperability and population health are closely intertwined. One healthcare network is reaping the benefits of both.  Continue Reading

• Cloud medical imaging is coming to radiology and healthcare in general

  Remote patient monitoring, cloud medical imaging, and gamification in healthcare are strategies recommended by health IT innovation expert Rasu Shrestha, M.D.  Continue Reading

• Medical imaging innovations transforming radiology and healthcare

  Radiology and medical imaging are being transformed by new, more client-centered and mobile approaches and technologies as healthcare moves outside the hospital.  Continue Reading

• Hospital uses early warning system technology to help save lives

  Code blues in a hospital often mean death for patients. One hospital is using an early warning system to intervene before a patient reaches code blue status.  Continue Reading

• Cybersecurity of medical devices: The new threat landscape

  Medical devices can enter the organization through many different channels other than IT. Experts discuss medical device cybersecurity and the FDA's guidance.  Continue Reading

• Data science in healthcare comes to medical imaging technology

  Philips Healthcare executive Jeroen Tas says advanced medical imaging combined with data science is important in the transition to value-based and personalized care.  Continue Reading

• Advances in medical imaging, wearable tech spur personalized care

  Medical imaging systems using analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence can help doctors practice personalized healthcare, according to a Philips Healthcare expert.  Continue Reading

• Wearable health device helps former ONC coordinator rack up steps

  Former ONC national coordinator Dr. Farzad Mostashari piles up thousands of daily steps with his Fitbit band, but he remains skeptical about the efficacy of wearable health technology.  Continue Reading

• Diabetes management software from Glytec automates insulin dosing support

  Glytec's cloud-based software system provides personalized therapy and management for acute diabetes and hypoglycemia patients to help providers meet goals for value-based care.  Continue Reading

• Providers advance in battle against data breaches in healthcare

  The new year could be one of healthcare cybersecurity catchup, after 2015 logged huge health data breaches and 2016 saw devastating ransomware attacks on providers.  Continue Reading

• Learn how to detect cyberattacks and prevent them

  Cyberattacks have become an all-too-common occurrence. Health IT experts offer advice on how to detect, prevent and recover from cyberattacks using the most effective technologies.  Continue Reading

• Interoperability may be in sight as Epic and Cerner work together

  As two of the largest EHRs in the healthcare space, Epic and Cerner have often appeared to be at odds with each other. But that seems to be changing via an ONC initiative.  Continue Reading

• John Sculley: optimize transaction cycle for pharmaceuticals

  Former Apple and Pepsi CEO John Sculley urges the use of cloud technology to optimize the transaction cycle for pharmaceuticals and drive down prices for advanced specialty drugs.  Continue Reading

• Former Apple CEO offers remedy for pharmacy benefits management system

  Former Apple CEO John Sculley has plunged into health IT with a collaborative, cloud-based pharmacy benefits management system that he says will drive down healthcare costs.  Continue Reading

• Predictive analytics in healthcare helps manage high-risk patients

  Predictive analytics in healthcare can benefit organizations two-fold. This technology not only helps better manage a population but also better handle claims and save money.  Continue Reading

• CIO focuses on user experience in healthcare, analytics in 2017

  Emerging technologies in health IT -- such as blockchain and AI -- aside, top of mind for one CIO in 2017 are the user experience in healthcare and data analytics.  Continue Reading

• 3D printing for healthcare has potential to improve patient compliance

  Because of their lightweight nature, 3D printed braces can help improve patient compliance in the group most affected by scoliosis -- adolescent females.  Continue Reading

• 3D printing in healthcare blends medical and consumer devices

  The healthcare market for 3D printing is projected to surpass $1 billion by 2020 as the technology crosses over from medical devices to consumer technology, such as wearables.  Continue Reading

• HIE executive director: Why HIEs probably aren't data blocking

  Some experts have discussed how data blocking is occurring with HIEs. But an HIE executive director argues that other barriers are in the way and contractually HIEs can't data block.  Continue Reading

• PatientPing helps with coordinating care among healthcare providers

  In this Innovation Spotlight, SearchHealthIT features PatientPing, a startup in Boston that provides technology to improve coordinating care.  Continue Reading

• Balance technology and human interaction to treat behavioral health

  To effectively treat behavioral health, technology must be used in conjunction with the humanity of healthcare providers, says AbleTo CMO Reena Pande.  Continue Reading

• Behavioral health data sharing drives push for better treatment

  With the current free sharing of behavioral health information, patients are driving the push for increased access to treatment -- and providers and payers are paying attention.  Continue Reading

• Security standards for healthcare information systems needed

  In order to achieve interoperability of security tools and strengthen security, one CIO said that there must be security standards for healthcare information systems.  Continue Reading

• Health IT experts reveal their wish list for vendor neutral archives

  Four health IT experts share their wish list for vendor neutral archives in 2017 and beyond. Dream features include interoperability standards and enterprise content management.  Continue Reading

• The vendor neutral archive market heats up as technology advances

  As technology advances, health systems are increasingly adopting vendor neutral archives to store, share and analyze medical images from multiple specialties, not only radiology.  Continue Reading

• Busting the early myths about blockchain in healthcare

  There's a lot of buzz about the uses for blockchain in healthcare. While the potential of this technology is exciting, one analyst provides a reality check.  Continue Reading

• AI-based voice analysis provides emotional intelligence in healthcare

  Boston-based startup Cogito Corporation provides emotional intelligence for healthcare with AI-driven real-time voice analysis for insurance call centers and other organizations.  Continue Reading

• Risk adjustment coding tech leads to $62 million in additional revenue

  With the help of risk adjustment coding tech, which utilizes natural language processing and big data, UPMC Health Plan was able to capture $62.2 million in additional revenue.  Continue Reading

• Apple Watch tracking app guides CEO of health IT firm on fitness runs

  The CEO of a secure clinical communications vendor uses his Apple Watch to track fitness runs, but is moving slowly on his company developing its own app for the watch.  Continue Reading

• PR exec uses fashionable wearable technology to help stay fit

  Wearable health technology can sometimes look clunky, but it becomes more fashionable in this incarnation on a Boston PR exec's wrist and helps her stay fit in style.  Continue Reading

• Blue Prism brings RPA technology to healthcare

  Although originally introduced in the financial industry, one company is now bringing RPA technology to healthcare. The benefits include increased efficiency and less human power.  Continue Reading

• Health IT experts discuss how they're using NLP in healthcare

  Some experts believe the use of NLP in healthcare is and will continue to be necessary. Two health IT experts discuss how they are currently using this technology in their healthcare organizations.  Continue Reading

• MACRA reporting and value-based care will be hard on small practices

  A McKesson Corporation analytics expert talks about the challenges facing small physician practices during the transition to MACRA and value-based healthcare.  Continue Reading

• Expert details healthcare cost accounting for value-based care

  A McKesson Corporation population health expert explains advanced cost accounting techniques for value-based care, alternative payment models and revenue optimization.  Continue Reading

• The relationship between population health and NLP in healthcare

  Many laud NLP in healthcare for its ability to take unstructured data, and make it valuable. Two health IT experts discuss NLP's role in achieving population health.  Continue Reading

• Interactive healthcare video platform designed to engage patients

  A healthcare video company uses data analytics and goal tracking for video and app-based platforms to engage patients and enhance corporate wellness programs.  Continue Reading

• CTO discusses health data storage, EHR technologies and medical images

  Health data storage plays an important role when it comes to EHRs and medical imaging. Pure Storage's CTO discusses integrating storage technologies with EHRs and medical image storage.  Continue Reading

• Physician fits bracelet wearable into fitness and fashion

  A cardiologist and medical adviser to health IT startups sports a bracelet-style wearable from Jawbone for workouts and her job and says wearables in healthcare are here to stay.  Continue Reading

• The CIO of MGH discusses health information exchange challenges

  It is well known in the health IT world that health information exchange challenges abound. The CIO of MGH discusses the challenges he has witnessed in Massachusetts.  Continue Reading

• For secure medical imaging systems, end-user awareness a must

  Consultant Nick Merkin explains why a lack of security awareness is a threat to protecting medical imaging systems and how organizations can educate staff to mitigate risks.  Continue Reading

• Securing medical imaging systems requires interdepartmental cooperation

  To protect medical imaging systems from breaches or attacks, hospitals should focus on cross-department cooperation and take a holistic approach to cybersecurity.  Continue Reading

• Amazing Charts EHR keeps pace with bigger vendors' systems

  In the ambulatory EHR world, stalwart vendor Amazing Charts has survived selling usability, pricing transparency and cloud technology even as the number of small practices shrinks.  Continue Reading

• New Brother printers offer HIPAA compliance for healthcare

  While much of healthcare has gone digital, some hospitals and many smaller providers still use paper records; Brother print-fax-store machines are HIPAA-compliant for print.  Continue Reading

• APIs in healthcare are now a certified health IT system requirement

  Government regulators are now requiring vendors of federally certified health IT to make APIs part of their electronic health record systems; some healthcare CIO groups object.  Continue Reading

• Online clinical network works to make interoperability possible

  In this Innovation Spotlight, SearchHealthIT dives into how an online clinical network can help create interoperability, share patient information between doctors, improve workflow.  Continue Reading

• Informatics and analytics: closer ties in wake of health data boom

  In the wake of an explosion in the volume of digital health data, medical informatics and analytics are becoming more allied as informaticians seek to extract the best data.  Continue Reading

• APIs in healthcare: Possible use cases

  Although APIs may not be new in other industries, in healthcare APIs are still finding their place. Experts discuss possible use cases for APIs in healthcare.  Continue Reading

• Data analytics aids value-based reimbursement, but bigger goals loom

  Although data analytics will play a role in precision medicine, experts say we're far from achieving the full potential. Instead, the focus of analytics now is on value-based care.  Continue Reading

• VNAs in healthcare: Where they are now and where they need to go

  Vendor neutral archives may seem self-explanatory but some experts assert that VNAs are much more than simply an image archive.  Continue Reading

• Salesforce being used as behavioral health tech by Easter Seals Bay Area

  One healthcare organization is using Salesforce's Health Cloud as behavioral health tech to better schedule care givers, coordinate care and share patient information.  Continue Reading

• Smartwatch activity tracker aids mHealth researcher with run regimen

  A medical school professor and mHealth researcher depends on her smartwatch wearable for tracking training runs, but doesn't use other smartwatch features.  Continue Reading

• Cloud-based software boosts revenue cycle management, eases EHR switch

  One hospital used data analytics from cloud-based software to ease the transition to a new EHR, keep track of payer trends and more.  Continue Reading

• Wearable activity tracker helps health IT analyst train for marathons

  After trading in a budget wellness band for a high-tech Fitbit, a health IT analyst finds the new wearable helps him train more efficiently for marathons.  Continue Reading

• Zipnosis uses virtual care technology to boost provider efficiency

  Virtual care vendor Zipnosis aims to help healthcare providers deliver more efficient medical services by prescreening patients and directing them to the right doctors.  Continue Reading

• SaaS app built on cognitive computing platform helps with medical codes

  Data analytics and cognitive computing are helping one hospital ensure the correct medical codes are being assigned for Medicare reimbursement via a SaaS application.  Continue Reading

• Openness in delivering healthcare information key to patient engagement

  As health data and IT advance, patients have more control over their own health information than ever and more access to patient engagement technology.  Continue Reading