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Health care cloud applications and services

• Pros and cons of healthcare organizations moving to the cloud

  Whether you've already adopted the public cloud or are still considering making the move, read these pros and cons to ensure your healthcare organization is getting the benefits. Continue Reading

• Find the best EHR software to manage your patient data

  EHR software is required for most health organizations but is available with a variety of features from different vendors. Learn which system offers what your business needs. Continue Reading

• Payer-provider partnerships may fuel future affordable care

  Taking an untraditional route to value-based care, payer-and-provider partnerships highlight the collaborations between benefit planners and healthcare systems. Continue Reading

• AI technology in healthcare advances surgical, clinical support

  The healthcare industry is beginning to warm up to AI, as the technology helps providers make clinical decisions and assists with certain types of surgery. Continue Reading

• Improved patient outcomes underscore convergence efforts

  Clinicians, health IT professionals, insurance carriers and others have started a slow roll toward improved patient outcomes using methods based on healthcare reform. Continue Reading

• Compare EHR systems with these key features in mind

  Compare EHR software options and look at the features they offer healthcare organizations for mobile access, certifications, reporting, workflow automation and document management.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

• 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

• In the medical imaging market, AI drives investment dollars

  Investors in medical imaging technology leaned toward software that improves AI-related radiology and associated workflows, as evidenced by detailed research.Continue Reading

• Guide to examples of cloud computing in healthcare

  The potential of cloud computing in healthcare can no longer be understated as cloud providers step up their security features and undergo testing to ensure HIPAA compliance.Continue Reading

• CIO explains tech behind integrated healthcare systems and apps

  BayHealth Development wanted integrated healthcare systems to provide a coherent experience for patients and physicians. The organization turned to the new Progress Health Cloud.Continue Reading

• Healthcare APIs boost interoperability, but health IT lags

  APIs are new to some in healthcare, but other industries use them regularly. Interoperability will benefit if healthcare can get beyond its legacy systems.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

• Healthcare cyberattacks necessitate use of cloud security tools

  Cloud-based security tools can offer healthcare organizations around-the-clock monitoring and protection at a fraction of the cost of traditional on-premises tools.Continue Reading

• Five common concerns of cloud services in healthcare

  While the cloud is gaining traction in healthcare, some hospital executives are hesitant to adopt cloud services due to concerns about data security and HIPAA compliance.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

• How healthcare organizations can prepare for cloud service outages

  Healthcare organizations should have a DR and business continuity plan to retain access to patient charts and administrative services in case of a cloud service outage.Continue Reading

• Patient involvement in care needs a nudge from technology

  Perhaps it's been overstated that healthcare trails other industries when it comes to adopting software, but patient engagement offers a worthy way for hospitals to catch up.Continue Reading

• Benefits of cloud computing in healthcare: Pop health, value-based care

  Healthcare should be getting ready for the cloud. At least, that's what one health IT expert thinks. Read his thoughts on cloud computing healthcare benefits.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

• 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

• HIPAA-compliant cloud storage seen through my kid's data

  For many of us, viewing and downloading family medical records from the cloud brings a sense of what HIPAA protection involves. Our new handbook looks at this concern.Continue Reading

• An inside look into cloud EHR vendor Practice Fusion

  SearchHealthIT gets an inside look into cloud EHR vendor, Practice Fusion. The company's chief medical officer discusses the benefits of the cloud and the unique workplace culture.Continue Reading

• CRM goliath Salesforce aims at dominating CRM for healthcare market

  A CRM system for healthcare as explained at Dreamforce by Josh Newman, M.D., Salesforce chief medical officer; and a visit to West Coast ambulatory EHR vendor Practice Fusion.Continue Reading

• SearchHealthIT takes on Dreamforce

  I thought the annual Healthcare Information Management Systems Society conference was overwhelming, with the constant stream of people, enormous exhibition hall, and many sessions to attend. ...Continue Reading

• Ambulatory EHR vendors having success on East and West Coasts

  As big EHR vendors battle for large healthcare system market shares, purveyors of EHRs for small physician practices are still finding success with moderately priced systems.Continue Reading

• Pharmacovigilance software helps detect lethal drug trial errors

  Cloud-based pharmacovigilance systems help prevent lethal mistakes in clinical drug trials and other medication programs and can be used by provider systems and pharma companies.Continue Reading

• How to meet HIPAA compliance requirements with personal cloud storage

  Cloud storage options are popular among end users, but data protection concerns may hinder their acceptance in healthcare. Follow these best practices to secure data in the cloud.Continue Reading

• Healthcare IT topics: Cloud, consumerization, wearables are hot

  Among the trending topics in health IT are cloud technology, consumerization of healthcare services and wearable devices, says SearchHealthIT editorial director Scott Wallask.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

• Vendors selling into health IT market talk tech to HIT Squad

  A recent health IT conference was a forum for health IT and cybersecurity vendors to reach healthcare organizations and potential customers; the HIT Squad talks with the vendors.Continue Reading

• The adoption of cloud in healthcare from a CIO's view

  CIO Harun Rashid discusses the adoption of cloud in healthcare as well as the barriers and concerns many health IT professionals have when it comes to cloud computing.Continue Reading

• Box's new image sharing system has been FDA-approved

  Box, the online file sharing and content management services company that has mainly been involved with back-office workflow,  announced at HIMSS 2016 that it is offering a new, FDA-cleared cloud ...Continue Reading

• HIPAA compliance audits coming, cybersecurity expert says at HIMSS 2016

  In a podcast from HIMSS, cybersecurity expert Mac McMillan discusses a new health data security simulation system, long-delayed HIPAA audits and the safety of cloud technology.Continue Reading

• Improving patient experience on HIMSS 2016 agenda

  CRM systems, such as Salesforce's, are examples of vendors at the HIMSS conference trying to improve the patient experience, says health IT consultant Murtuza Mukadam.Continue Reading

• Vendors of public cloud platforms pitching to health IT

  Unmoved by the benefits of shifting some of their operations to the public cloud, some healthcare providers are letting cloud providers bring their services to them.Continue Reading

• Privacy, security controls for healthcare HIPAA compliance

  For HIPAA healthcare compliance, providers and other healthcare organizations need to prepare for HIPAA audits and use effective privacy and security controls.Continue Reading

• Healthcare 3D printing and CRM are what's hot in health IT

  As HIMSS16 approaches, new and established technologies such as 3D printing and CRM are making strong headway in health IT, SearchHealthIT reporters say in this HIT Squad podcast.Continue Reading

• Cloud medical imaging storage is the way of the future

  PACS and VNAs are the image storage standards in healthcare. Cloud medical imaging storage presents benefits that may intrigue healthcare providers to ditch PACS and VNAs.Continue Reading

• Two predictions for 2016 from a health IT reporter

  Being a health IT reporter, you start to notice when certain technologies are being picked up by hospitals and other healthcare organizations more and more. I'm sure my colleague Shaun Sutner, the ...Continue Reading

• RSNA 2015 drew international crowds, new imaging tech

  RSNA 2015, the biggest North American healthcare tech conference, featured an international crowd and medical imaging innovation. Meanwhile, the ICD-10 transition has been smooth.Continue Reading

• CIO, analyst say cloud computing in healthcare meets HIPAA

  Many fear cloud computing in healthcare. But a long-term care company disputes that stance, instead going 100% into the cloud while firmly believing it complies with HIPAA.Continue Reading

• The diverse use cases for cloud in healthcare

  Healthcare cloud services come in various forms, including analytics models and system backups. Those are two of the reasons cloud has the attention of health IT professionals.Continue Reading

• Analyzing Health Cloud and Salesforce's healthcare strategy

  Salesforce, with the announcement of its Health Cloud, isn't the first notable vendor to venture into healthcare as an outsider. How should we expect the move to go?Continue Reading

• Healthcare cloud helps patients, research -- but has IT risks

  Healthcare cloud services hold much promise -- genomic research being a good example -- but the industry also worries about the related potential threats.Continue Reading

• Chain of urgent care clinics boosts uptime

  A chain of rural urgent care clinics was suffering from network and phone downtime until it installed a cloud-based network "bonding" service from Evolve IP.Continue Reading

• New tech tops health IT purchasing plans

  Health IT pros plan key investments this year in security, cloud and mobile technology, a TechTarget purchasing plans survey shows.Continue Reading

• CIO John Halamka in intriguing EHR venture with athenahealth

  Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center's CIO John Halamka leads the hospital system into an unusual joint venture with EHR vendor athenahealth Inc.Continue Reading

• How to prep before installing healthcare cloud services

  Projecting total costs and confirming a product meets governing regulations are two steps to take before committing to a cloud product.Continue Reading

• Providers drop healthcare analytics software for cloud

  Healthcare organizations dissatisfied with mining aged data for insight into their business find that cloud analytics keep them more up to date.Continue Reading

• Health IT vendors look to cloud for imaging offerings

  Improved data compression and lower costs are two reasons more healthcare providers are weighing cloud deployment in their facilities.Continue Reading

• Must-knows about cloud computing in healthcare

  Healthcare organizations of all sizes can benefit from cloud services, but only if they lock down possible security leaks.Continue Reading

• Despite bad rap, HIPAA omnibus rule helps sustain health IT

  Shared accountability among vendors for data breaches is one reason the HIPAA omnibus rule is helping expand cloud usage in the health IT realm.Continue Reading

• Can you see me now? More providers make telemedicine investments

  Intermountain, Mercy make telemedicine investments as IT infrastructure. Plans encompass videoconferencing across many service lines, not one-offs.Continue Reading

• Enterprise Mobility Suite a management option for health IT department

  Microsoft's introduction of Office for iPad overshadowed an announcement that may have a greater effect on healthcare.Continue Reading

• KLAS Research explains its changes in best EHR vendor awards

  In candid interviews, KLAS Research and athenahealth discuss the impact of unannounced changes in Best in KLAS health IT software systems awards.Continue Reading

• Five common cloud myths preventing healthcare deployment

  Separating fact and fiction when it comes to the cloud isn't a one-step process. Here are a few tips that can help you avoid popular cloud myths.Continue Reading

• Ten things to know about top EHR vendors going into HIMSS 2014

  Several new reports, including from KLAS Research, reshuffle the deck of top EHR vendors. Here are 10 things to know going into HIMSS 2014.Continue Reading

• CIOs: Thinking about getting out of the healthcare data center business?

  Last year, CommonWell Health Alliance made its debut. Will new interoperability gains make healthcare data centers a thing of the past?Continue Reading

• New healthcare imaging strategy weighing on provider CIOs

  What's in your healthcare imaging strategy? Making workflows more efficient and meeting meaningful use are part of many providers' newest IT plans.Continue Reading

• New hospital cloud services changing clinical workflows

  New VMware-, Microsoft-hosted healthcare desktop virtualization models create efficiency for health IT buyers.Continue Reading

• Study: Quantified self movement, Internet a boon for chronic care

  A Pew Research Center study indicated chronic care patients use self-monitoring and social media to shape their care.Continue Reading

• Virtual assistants part of expanding patient engagement

  Patient portals, mHealth apps and free-standing kiosks are some of the more technologically advanced engagement methods used by providers.Continue Reading

• Telemedicine clinics make inroads into primary care

  Two approaches to telemedicine clinics, one where a vendor provides the doc, one where it doesn't, expand telehealth's reach into primary care.Continue Reading

• In purchase, athenahealth has big plans for Epocrates apps

  Jonathan Bush, CEO of athenahealth, discusses how the purchase of Epocrates will help the company reach a larger audience and boost interoperability.Continue Reading

• Provider-vendor online patient groups as new patient engagement model

  Online patient groups offer promise of between-visit wellness boosts. Providers and vendors are wagering on this emerging model of patient engagement.Continue Reading

• A quick look at iPad EHR systems

  As iPad adoption among medical professionals climbs, EHR vendors are developing versions of their software for the iPad. Here's a look at key features of 11 such systems.Continue Reading

• HIMSS 2011 video: CEO Jonathan Bush on AthenaHealth's cloud EHR

  AthenaHealth Inc. has a unique way of charging customers for its cloud EHR, billing and practice-management tools: Its rates are based on payer reimbursements.Continue Reading

• Centricity Advance SaaS EHR gives doctor mobility, with strong backing

  See how one cardiologist uses mobile SaaS EHR to access patient data from multiple locations. Another plus: Tech support has not changed since GE acquired the vendor, he says.Continue Reading

• Mobile EHR for the iPad slowly coming to market

  As iPad adoption among doctors continues to climb, vendors focus their efforts on mobile EHR systems. November’s iOS update, which supports multitasking, should speed things up.Continue Reading