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29 Apr 2024
UK’s long-awaited device security law kicks in
By Alex ScroxtonThe Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act has become law across the UK, enforcing basic cyber security standards across connected products sold to the public
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29 Apr 2024
Nokia hails MENA successes with 5G and cloud
By Joe O’HalloranNokia inks key tech deals in UAE and Qatar to upgrade connectivity and drive 5G enterprise innovation, as well as to offer cloud interconnect service layer to enhance services for hyperscalers
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29 Apr 2024
Case study: Seeing clearly with data at Specsavers
By Stephen PritchardHelen Mannion, director of global data and business transformation at high street opticians firm Specsavers, opens up about the importance of data to the organisation
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08 Jan 2024
Government to push NHS roll-out of digital pathology
By Lis EvenstadDepartment for Health and Social Care wants to increase use of digital pathology in cancer screening, following a recommendation by the UK National Screening Committee
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05 Jan 2024
Nine Healthcare Orgs Join OCHIN Epic EHR Network to Drive Care Access
By Hannah NelsonThe OCHIN Epic EHR platform aims to meet the needs of community-based healthcare providers and enhance care access across underserved populations.
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03 Jan 2024
Artificial intelligence to the front in Sweden’s National Technology Strategy
By Gerard O'DwyerSweden focuses in on artificial intelligence in its latest far-reaching national IT strategy
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03 Jan 2024
ONC Final Rule Updates Health IT Certification for Interoperability
By Hannah NelsonThe final rule updates the baseline version of the United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) standard to Version 3 for the ONC Health IT Certification Program.
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21 Dec 2023
Epic EHR Implementation Projects Look to Boost Patient Experience
By Hannah NelsonHealthcare organizations in Minnesota, Missouri, and Nebraska have recently announced Epic EHR implementation projects aimed at improving patient experience.
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21 Dec 2023
Top 10 cyber crime stories of 2023
By Alex ScroxtonRansomware gangs dominated the cyber criminal underworld in 2023, a year that will prove notable for significant evolutionary trends in their tactics
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20 Dec 2023
GAO Appoints New Members to Health IT Advisory Committee
By Hannah NelsonGAO added five new health IT leaders to the committee, including Lee Fleisher, MD, former chief medical officer and director of the Center for Clinical Standards and Quality at CMS.
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20 Dec 2023
ALPHV/BlackCat operation down, but maybe not out
By Alex ScroxtonMultinational law enforcement has targeted the operations of the notorious ALPHV/BlackCat cyber extortion gang, but the group’s members appear to remain defiant
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20 Dec 2023
Top 10 NHS IT stories of 2023
By Lis EvenstadIn the year we said goodbye to NHS Digital, the NHS has made some serious strides in digitising the health service, but many challenges remain. We look back at the stories that made the headlines in 2023
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19 Dec 2023
Top 10 information management stories of 2023
By Brian McKennaGenerative AI was inescapable as the leading theme of the information management stories of 2023 gathered here. But also selected are pieces about data and healthcare, and the inexorable rise of the CDO
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14 Dec 2023
HHS Data Strategy Looks to Expand Human Services Interoperability
By Hannah NelsonA new HHS data strategy outlines several data integration goals, including expanding ONC's role to include the coordination of human services interoperability.
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13 Dec 2023
Microsoft’s Christmas present for cyber teams: no zero-days
By Alex ScroxtonBarely 30 vulnerabilities, and no zero-days, have been fixed in the final Patch Tuesday drop of 2023
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13 Dec 2023
Critical UK infrastructure a ‘hostage of fortune’ to ransomware
By Alex ScroxtonA lack of ransomware planning and preparedness at the highest levels of government is leaving UK operators or critical national infrastructure dangerously exposed, according to a Joint Committee report
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13 Dec 2023
ONC Finalizes Rule to Drive Health IT Interoperability, AI Transparency
By Hannah NelsonThe final rule adopts USCDI Version 3 as the new baseline standard within the ONC Health IT Certification Program to advance health IT interoperability.
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12 Dec 2023
Regenstrief Foundation Funds Project for EHR Standardization of SDOH Data
By Hannah NelsonA new initiative led by Regenstrief Institute and HL7’s Gravity Project aims to advance SDOH data standards within EHR platforms to drive health equity.
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12 Dec 2023
HHS, ONC Bring TEFCA Live for Nationwide Health Data Exchange
By Hannah NelsonONC designated eHealth Exchange, Epic Nexus, Health Gorilla, KONZA, and MedAllies as the first QHINs to support national health data exchange through TEFCA.
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07 Dec 2023
ONC Launches New USCDI+ Platform to Drive Data Harmonization
By Hannah NelsonAccording to ONC officials, the platform provides an enhanced user experience compared to previous USCDI+ data collection and review tools.
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07 Dec 2023
Veteran's Lawsuit Alleges VA EHR Defects Delayed Cancer Diagnosis
By Hannah NelsonA veteran is seeking unspecified monetary damages from the federal government and the vendors behind the VA EHR system due to alleged system flaws.
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06 Dec 2023
New Tools From EHR Vendor athenahealth Harness Generative AI
By Hannah NelsonNew generative AI tools from EHR vendor athenahealth include a care plan summarization feature, as well as a tool to draft patient case documents.
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06 Dec 2023
ONC-Funded Project Taps FHIR for Clinical Research EHR Data Access
By Hannah NelsonAn ONC-funded research team has developed two new platforms that leverage FHIR to support standardized EHR data access for clinical research scalability.
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05 Dec 2023
Epic EHR Integration Aims to Boost Patient Experience, Personalized Care
By Hannah NelsonBy providing access to patient experience data within health records, the Epic EHR integration aims to drive a more personal care experience.
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05 Dec 2023
Majority of GPs now give patients online access to records
By Lis EvenstadNHS England is close to reaching its target of having nine in 10 GPs offering patients access to their primary care records online
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04 Dec 2023
Rhysida ransomware gang hits hospital holding royal family’s data
By Alex ScroxtonRansomware gang boasts of having stolen data on the royal family in an attack on a private London hospital
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01 Dec 2023
The Security Interviews: Mark McClain, SailPoint Technologies
By Alex ScroxtonSailPoint founder and CEO Mark McClain reflects on how the concept of identity has evolved over the past 20 years, and points to rapid evolution still to come
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30 Nov 2023
Health System Selects MEDITECH EHR Implementation for Interoperability
By Hannah NelsonA health system in Savannah, Georgia, has opted for a MEDITECH EHR implementation to drive health data interoperability across care settings.
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27 Nov 2023
India's Hexaware creates hundreds of jobs in UK
By Karl FlindersHexaware opens IT services operation in Birmingham, with a plan to recruit 250 people in the region by 2025
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27 Nov 2023
Community Health Center PCPs Spend Less Time on EHR, Electronic Inbox
By Hannah NelsonA study revealed that primary care physicians (PCPs) practicing in community health centers spend 5.40 fewer minutes on the EHR than PCPs working in other settings.
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23 Nov 2023
Microsoft bans SME partners from selling its services via government's Cloud Compute 2 framework
By Caroline DonnellyMicrosoft is under fire after documents leaked to Computer Weekly revealed it has banned reseller partners from selling its services via the government’s soon-to-be launched Cloud Compute 2 framework
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22 Nov 2023
Palantir awarded NHS FDP data contract
By Alex ScroxtonNHS England has awarded a £330m, seven-year contract to US data specialist Palantir, prompting concerns from data privacy practitioners
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22 Nov 2023
NHS England renews FutureNHS cloud-based collaboration hosting deal via G-Cloud for £1.67m
By Caroline DonnellyNHS England has renewed its long-standing hosting and support contract for the FutureNHS platform with SME cloud provider Kahootz
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21 Nov 2023
EHR Usability Outshines AI as Top Health IT Priority of Healthcare Execs
By Hannah NelsonAn MGMA poll found that improving EHR usability was the top health IT priority for healthcare leaders, followed by patient communications, revenue cycle management, and AI.
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20 Nov 2023
NHS England hits 90% target for electronic patient records
By Scarlet CharlesSome 90% of trusts in NHS England have adopted electronic patient records in hospitals, ahead of government schedule
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17 Nov 2023
VA Reports Improved Oracle Health EHR Performance, But Snags Remain
By Hannah NelsonWhile there has not been a total outage of the VA Oracle Health EHR for six months, frontline healthcare workers continue to experience pauses in the system.
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17 Nov 2023
eHealth Exchange HIE Launches Program to Boost HL7 FHIR Adoption
By Hannah NelsonThe incentive program from eHealth Exchange will reward HIE participants who exchange patient data with payers using the HL7 FHIR data standard as outlined in the HL7 Da Vinci Project.
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16 Nov 2023
Community Hospitals Select Oracle Health EHR to Streamline Workflows
By Hannah NelsonCommunity hospitals in Iowa, Kentucky, and Tennessee have implemented the Oracle Health CommunityWorks EHR to optimize clinical workflows and drive interoperability.
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16 Nov 2023
Digital Health Most Wired: Healthcare Orgs Focusing on Health Data Usage
By Hannah NelsonWith widespread EHR adoption, healthcare organizations are looking toward health data usage to improve outcomes, according to the Digital Health Most Wired 2023 survey.
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13 Nov 2023
Rogue state-aligned actors are most critical cyber threat to UK
By Alex ScroxtonThe prospect of rogue nation-state-aligned attackers bringing down the UK’s critical infrastructure is keeping the NCSC up at night
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13 Nov 2023
Surescripts Applies for TEFCA QHIN Role to Drive Interoperability
By Hannah NelsonSurescripts Health Information Network LLC, which supports nationwide healthcare interoperability for ePrescribing, has applied to become a TEFCA QHIN.
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13 Nov 2023
Indian Health Service Taps Oracle Health EHR Implementation for HIE
By Hannah NelsonThe enterprise platform from EHR vendor Oracle Health is set to drive care coordination and patient safety through enhanced health information exchange (HIE).
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09 Nov 2023
KY Hospital Receives Epic Award for EHR Implementation Success
By Hannah NelsonEHR vendor Epic gives its annual Good Install award to one new customer who stands out above others in terms of EHR implementation success.
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08 Nov 2023
Department of Mental Health Taps Oracle Health EHR for Interoperability
By Hannah NelsonThe Oracle Health EHR implementation aims to enhance interoperability across the Missouri Department of Mental Health’s facilities and contracted agencies.
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07 Nov 2023
Cornwall Council-run care service to deploy digital care hub
By Lis EvenstadDigital hub will offer council-run Corserv Care an end-to-end care solution, including a physical device, online dashboard and interoperable software
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06 Nov 2023
Netherlands starts building its own AI language model
By Kim LoohuisDutch government allocates €13.5m to develop an open artificial intelligence language model according to national values and guidelines.
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03 Nov 2023
KLAS: Epic Signal Data Cannot Predict EHR Satisfaction, Clinician Burnout
By Hannah NelsonThe provider-efficiency tracking feature from Epic does not meaningfully measure EHR satisfaction, but it can serve as a jumping-off point for EHR optimization, according to KLAS.
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01 Nov 2023
Darktrace CEO Poppy Gustafsson on her AI Safety Summit goals
By Alex ScroxtonAs the AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park takes place, Computer Weekly caught up with Darktrace CEO Poppy Gustafsson to find out what one of the UK’s most prominent AI advocates wants from proceedings
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31 Oct 2023
Surgery Center Selects eClinicalWorks EHR to Drive Interoperability
By Hannah NelsonThe implementation of the eClinicalWorks EHR is set to advance interoperability with ambulatory surgery centers and other providers to boost care coordination.
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30 Oct 2023
HHS Releases Proposed Rule for Information Blocking Disincentives
By Hannah NelsonHHS requests public comment by January 2, 2024 on a proposed rule that would establish information blocking disincentives for healthcare providers.
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27 Oct 2023
Domestic abuse charities surface fresh worries over NHS data sharing
By Alex ScroxtonWith new NHS data access options coming into effect at the end of October, a group of campaigners including womens' charities and the BMA have warned that the revived GP-patient data sharing scheme risks putting vulnerable people at risk
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26 Oct 2023
ONC: 60% of Americans Comfortable with SDOH Information Sharing
By Hannah NelsonComfort with SDOH information sharing was relatively low among individuals who reported little or no trust in the healthcare system, ONC survey data revealed.
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25 Oct 2023
CalHHS Names 9 Qualified Health Information Organizations for DxF
By Hannah NelsonThe designation of qualified health information organizations is a major step forward in implementing the CalHHS health data exchange framework (DxF).
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25 Oct 2023
CalHHS Names 9 Qualified Health Information Organizations for DxF
By Hannah NelsonThe designation of qualified health information organizations is a major step forward in implementing the CalHHS health data exchange framework (DxF).
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24 Oct 2023
Government puts £75m into innovation hubs
By Lis EvenstadEight innovation ‘launchpads’ will each get a share of the funding for projects covering sectors such as agri-tech, digital healthcare, renewable energy and technologies for the creative industry
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23 Oct 2023
KLAS: Clinician Satisfaction with eLearning EHR Training Mounts
By Hannah NelsonFrom 2021 to 2023, the share of clinicians who would recommend eLearning EHR training to a colleague increased from 67 to 83 percent, according to a KLAS report.
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20 Oct 2023
EHR Vendor eClinicalWorks Taps AI Tool for Clinical Documentation
By Hannah NelsonA new health IT integration from EHR vendor eClinicalWorks is set to simplify clinical documentation for providers using AI technology.
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20 Oct 2023
EHR Vendor eClinicalWorks Taps AI Tool for Clinical Documentation
By Hannah NelsonA new health IT integration from EHR vendor eClinicalWorks is set to simplify clinical documentation for providers using AI technology.
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20 Oct 2023
Florida FQHC Streamlines Collections Using eClinicalWorks EHR Services
By Hannah NelsonA federally qualified health center (FQHC) has increased payment collections through revenue cycle management tools connected to its eClinicalWorks EHR platform.
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20 Oct 2023
KLAS Outlines Health IT Vendor Offerings for Clinician EHR Efficiency
By Hannah NelsonThe KLAS report validates offerings that aim to improve clinician EHR efficiency from health IT vendors such as athenahealth, Epic, MEDITECH, and NextGen Healthcare.
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19 Oct 2023
Government concedes it will miss 2024 e-prescribing target
By Lis EvenstadThe government won’t meet its target to get rid of paper prescribing in hospitals by 2024, and has pushed the goal post back two years to 2026
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17 Oct 2023
Government to pump £30m into NHS medtech
By Lis EvenstadThe government hopes the funding, which is available to integrated care systems across the country, will ease winter pressures through the help of technology
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16 Oct 2023
ENT Practice Increases Patient Engagement with eClinicalWorks EHR
By Hannah NelsonAn Arizona-based ENT practice has boosted patient engagement through questionnaires and various payment options within its eClinicalWorks EHR system.
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16 Oct 2023
Regenstrief Links LOINC, SNOMED to Drive Health Data Interoperability
By Hannah NelsonRegenstrief and SNOMED International have broadened their collaboration to drive health data interoperability between LOINC and SNOMED CT data standards.
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13 Oct 2023
CHIME Names 21 Healthcare Orgs as 2023 Digital Health Most Wired
By Hannah NelsonThe 2023 Digital Health Most Wired Survey awarded 21 healthcare organizations with the highest recognition for their commitment to digital health transformation.
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13 Oct 2023
CHIME Names 21 Healthcare Orgs as 2023 Digital Health Most Wired
By Hannah NelsonThe 2023 Digital Health Most Wired Survey awarded 21 healthcare organizations with the highest recognition for their commitment to digital health transformation.
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11 Oct 2023
Google Cloud Announces Generative AI Search Capabilities for Healthcare
By Hannah NelsonNew generative AI search features from Google Cloud aim to help drive efficiencies across the healthcare industry and improve clinical decision support.
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11 Oct 2023
Google Cloud Announces Generative AI Search Capabilities for Healthcare
By Hannah NelsonNew generative AI search features from Google Cloud aim to help drive efficiencies across the healthcare industry and improve clinical decision support.
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11 Oct 2023
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Trust uses RealWear headsets for training
By Cliff SaranNHS trauma and orthopaedic department deploys head-mounted cameras to livestream surgeon’s view footage of operations to classroom
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10 Oct 2023
EHR Vendor NextGen Releases AI Solution to Boost Provider Efficiency
By Hannah NelsonThe new AI solution within EHR vendor NextGen Healthcare’s mobile application aims to enhance provider efficiency by summarizing clinical encounters.
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06 Oct 2023
VA Announces Health Data Sharing Pledge to Boost Veteran Experience
By Hannah NelsonVA and 13 healthcare systems, including Kaiser Permanente and Intermountain, have pledged to improve the Veteran experience through health data sharing.
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05 Oct 2023
University Hospitals Transitions to Epic EHR to Drive Care Coordination
By Hannah NelsonThe health system converted over 5.6 million patient records to an Epic EHR system to enhance care coordination and streamline patient scheduling.
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05 Oct 2023
University Hospitals Transitions to Epic EHR to Drive Care Coordination
By Hannah NelsonThe health system converted over 5.6 million patient records to an Epic EHR system to enhance care coordination and streamline patient scheduling.
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05 Oct 2023
NY Orthopaedic Practice Taps athenahealth EHR for Interoperability
By Hannah NelsonAn orthopaedic practice based in Albany, NY, selected a cloud-based EHR from athenahealth to enhance health data interoperability.
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05 Oct 2023
Government launches £60m Regional Innovation Fund
By Lis EvenstadThe £60m fund aims to support universities in areas with lower R&D investment, while the government is also pumping £8m towards AI scholarships
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03 Oct 2023
Top science journal faced secret attacks from Covid conspiracy theory group
By Computer Weekly and Byline TimesA conspiratorial group of extreme Brexit lobbyists mounted an extraordinary campaign against one of the world’s most prestigious science journals – part of a series of joint investigations between Byline Times and Computer Weekly
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29 Sep 2023
VT Health System Streamlines Health IT Strategy with MEDITECH EHR
By Hannah NelsonGifford Health Care is replacing three legacy health IT systems with a MEDITECH EHR to enhance operational efficiency and clinical decision support.
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27 Sep 2023
Nuance Releases Generative AI Copilot for Clinical Documentation
By Hannah NelsonThe Nuance DAX Copilot uses generative AI to automatically create draft clinical documentation for physician review and entry in the EHR.
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27 Sep 2023
Nuance Releases Generative AI Copilot for Clinical Documentation
By Hannah NelsonThe Nuance DAX Copilot uses generative AI to automatically create draft clinical documentation for physician review and entry in the EHR.
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21 Sep 2023
MEDITECH EHR Integration Taps Generative AI for Clinical Notes
By Hannah NelsonThe MEDITECH EHR integration leverages ambient technology and generative AI to help providers spend less time on clinical documentation.
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20 Sep 2023
New Oracle Health Cloud-Based EHR Features Focus on Patient Experience
By Hannah NelsonNew cloud-based capabilities in the Oracle Health EHR include a patient portal that supports simple voice commands to improve the patient experience.
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19 Sep 2023
Ochsner to Pilot Epic EHR Integration for Generative AI Patient Messaging
By Hannah NelsonApproximately 100 Ochsner clinicians will test an Epic EHR integration that uses generative AI to draft responses to routine patient requests.
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19 Sep 2023
Government pumps £10m into faster patient access to medtech
By Lis EvenstadThe funding aims to give developers support to rapidly develop innovative technologies that can address unmet clinical needs
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18 Sep 2023
UPMC Moves to Single Epic EHR to Boost Health Data Interoperability
By Hannah NelsonThe unified Epic EHR platform is set to enhance health data interoperability across the UPMC enterprise for improved access to patient data.
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18 Sep 2023
Government seeks industry views on cyber threat to UK CNI
By Alex ScroxtonThe Science, Innovation and Technology Select Committee is seeking evidence from the cyber sector as it launches an inquiry into the resilience of the UK's critical national infrastructure
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14 Sep 2023
VA Plans to Resume Oracle Cerner EHR Modernization in Summer 2024
By Hannah NelsonAt a recent House hearing, VA and Oracle Cerner officials said they expect to restart the agency’s $10 billion EHR modernization in the summer of 2024.
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13 Sep 2023
Patch Tuesday: Microsoft fixes zero-days in Word and Streaming Service
By Alex ScroxtonSeptember 2023 brings a light Patch Tuesday, with two zero-days and five critical vulnerabilities listed in the latest release
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13 Sep 2023
Senate Appoints VA Deputy Secretary to Lead EHR Modernization Project
By Hannah NelsonIn her new role as deputy secretary, Tanya Bradsher will oversee the troubled VA EHR modernization program launched in October 2020.
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12 Sep 2023
Oracle Stock Falls in Part Due to Cerner EHR Revenue Weakness
By Hannah NelsonAs the technology vendor moves Cerner EHR clients to cloud subscriptions, Safra Catz, Oracle CEO, warned of near-term weakness in revenue growth.
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12 Sep 2023
European enterprises to spend more on generative IT to close gap on US
By Karl FlindersEuropean organisations are upping their spending on generative AI innovation, but face challenges recruiting the right people to support this
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11 Sep 2023
University of Glasgow launches Centre for data science and AI
By Karl FlindersScottish university will apply artificial intelligence and data science to help solve some of the world's biggest challenges
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11 Sep 2023
OIG: VA Lacked Timelines for Cerner EHRM Progress Reports
By Hannah NelsonOIG found that Cerner did not have deadlines for corrections to VA EHRM progress reports, which could have limited VA’s ability to manage deliverables.
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11 Sep 2023
IR35: HMRC reportedly working to April 2024 start date for settlement offsets fix
By Caroline DonnellyHMRC is reportedly planning to roll out its fix for the double-taxation issue affecting IR35 compliance cases by April 2024
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07 Sep 2023
GPs in Slough help control patients’ blood pressure through tech
By Lis EvenstadThe GP practices use digital technology to identify, diagnose and manage patients with hypertension
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07 Sep 2023
Personalized Clinical Documentation Tools Linked to EHR Satisfaction
By Hannah NelsonPhysicians who use personalized clinical documentation tools, such as templates and shortcuts, report the highest levels of EHR satisfaction, a KLAS report found.
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06 Sep 2023
Investment Firm Acquires Health IT Vendor NextGen Healthcare
By Hannah NelsonUpon completing the deal with software investment firm Thoma Bravo, NextGen Healthcare will be a privately held health IT company.
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04 Sep 2023
TUC launches AI taskforce for workers’ rights and societal benefit
By Brian McKennaThe Trades Union Congress has launched what it calls an AI ‘taskforce’ to draft an AI and Employment Bill, aimed at safeguarding workers’ rights, early in 2024
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01 Sep 2023
Pediatric Provider Taps MEDITECH Expanse EHR to Drive Interoperability
By Hannah NelsonThe MEDITECH Expanse EHR implementation will support interoperability of patient health data for care coordination across Bethany Children's Health Center.
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29 Aug 2023
Epic Sepsis Prediction Model Lacks Clinical Decision Support Timeliness
By Hannah NelsonA new study found that the Epic Sepsis Prediction Model was less timely and missed more cases than other clinical decision support tools, including SOFA and SIRS.
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29 Aug 2023
Top-performing CISOs reserve time for professional development
By Alex ScroxtonSurvey of chief information security officers conducted by Gartner sheds light on habits shared by the top-performing members of the profession
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29 Aug 2023
VA CIO Hopeful Revised Oracle Cerner Contract Will Mend EHR Project
By Hannah NelsonKurt DelBene, VA CIO, is “cautiously optimistic” that stronger Oracle Cerner contract terms will set the EHR modernization on the right path.
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29 Aug 2023
Epic Sepsis Prediction Model Lacks Clinical Decision Support Timeliness
By Hannah NelsonA new study found that the Epic Sepsis Prediction Model was less timely and missed more cases than other clinical decision support tools, including SOFA and SIRS.
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29 Aug 2023
ONC Awards The Sequoia Project Contract to Continue TEFCA RCE Role
By Hannah NelsonWith TEFCA go-live slated for late 2023, ONC has awarded The Sequoia Project a five-year contract to continue serving as recognized coordinating entity (RCE).