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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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28 Aug 2023
EHR Vendor NextGen Exploring Sale of Company, Sources Say
By Hannah NelsonOn the heels of a $31 million settlement with the DOJ, EHR vendor NextGen Healthcare is reportedly considering a sale of the company.
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25 Aug 2023
FQHC Taps eClinicalWorks Health IT to Boost Population Health
By Hannah NelsonAn FQHC in Connecticut increased HIV screenings by 11 percent after adopting population health modules from health IT vendor eClinicalWorks.
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24 Aug 2023
Additional Epic EHR Education Linked to Clinician Satisfaction
By Hannah NelsonWhile Epic EHR education courses boost clinician satisfaction, providers want more opportunities to share best practices with their peers.
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24 Aug 2023
Additional Epic EHR Education Linked to Clinician Satisfaction
By Hannah NelsonWhile Epic EHR education courses boost clinician satisfaction, providers want more opportunities to share best practices with their peers.
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24 Aug 2023
NHS SBS to launch £1.5bn digital workplace solutions framework
By Lis EvenstadNHS Shared Business Services is planning on a second iteration of its digital workplace solutions framework before the current one expires in August 2024
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24 Aug 2023
NHS England calls on NHS organisations to take part in wireless trials
By Lis EvenstadNHS organisations are encouraged to apply for funding for the wireless trials programme, which aims to explore how cutting-edge tech can improve patient care
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23 Aug 2023
Cyber attacks in 2023 develop quicker as average dwell times plummet
By Alex ScroxtonThe median attacker dwell time shrunk from 10 to eight days in the first seven months of 2023, and in the case of ransomware attacks it is down to just five days
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22 Aug 2023
Michigan HIE Taps Health IT to Advance Interoperability Use Cases
By Hannah NelsonMichigan's state-designated HIE is implementing a health data fabric solution to drive health IT interoperability and boost scalability.
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18 Aug 2023
Effective Resident EHR Training Hinges on Personal Initiative
By Hannah NelsonResearchers said residency programs should foster relationships between medical assistants and residents to support EHR use and clinical documentation.
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18 Aug 2023
Effective Resident EHR Training Hinges on Personal Initiative
By Hannah NelsonResearchers said residency programs should foster relationships between medical assistants and residents to support EHR use and clinical documentation.
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18 Aug 2023
Nashville Hospital Swaps Multiple EHR Systems for Oracle Community Works
By Sarai RodriguezNashville General Hospital will switch out multi-EHR systems moving forward with Oracle Cerner CommunityWorks for a single EHR.
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17 Aug 2023
NUHS taps LLM to boost productivity, patient care
By Aaron TanHealthcare professionals at Singapore’s National University Health System can now summarise patient case notes and predict patient healthcare journeys using a large language model trained by a supercomputer
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17 Aug 2023
Epic Announces Integration for Generative AI Clinical Documentation
By Hannah NelsonEmory Healthcare in Georgia will deploy the generative AI integration across its Epic EHR to streamline clinical documentation workflows.
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16 Aug 2023
Accenture’s Brussels AI lab to focus on European public sector and health
By Karl FlindersAccenture will use its Brussels AI lab to test AI and generative AI's application in the European public sector
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15 Aug 2023
ONC Awards $2M for Health IT Interoperability Projects
By Hannah NelsonPart of the ONC funding will go towards a health IT project to drive advance care planning interoperability using advanced FHIR standards.
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14 Aug 2023
CMA provisionally clears US healthcare giant’s purchase of GP IT supplier EMIS
By Lis EvenstadUS company UnitedHealth is looking to buy UK healthcare technology firm EMIS in a £1.2bn deal
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10 Aug 2023
DWP accounts highlight decline in outside IR35 workers in wake of department’s £87.9m tax bill
By Caroline DonnellyThe Department for Work and Pensions has seen a marked decline in the number of outside IR35 contractors it engages since the department was hit with a £87.9m tax bill several years ago, its accounts show
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10 Aug 2023
Georgia HIE Receives Grant for SDOH Interoperability Pilot Program
By Hannah NelsonThe state-designated HIE will use the $200,000 grant to demonstrate the feasibility of a closed-loop referral service for SDOH interoperability.
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10 Aug 2023
Babylon Health faces downfall
By Lis EvenstadGP at Hand provider once hailed by Matt Hancock looking to sell UK business after merger plans collapse
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10 Aug 2023
Sutton Council steps up tech-enabled care for residents
By Lis EvenstadCouncil partners with technology-enabled care provider to support vulnerable residents living independently in their own homes
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08 Aug 2023
Legislators Introduce Act for Behavioral Health IT Adoption
By Hannah NelsonThe bipartisan act would provide $20 million a year in grant funding over five fiscal years to finance behavioral health IT adoption.
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08 Aug 2023
Poor Interoperability Limited Primary Care COVID-19 Vaccination Efforts
By Hannah NelsonPoor immunization interoperability prevented many primary care practices from identifying their unvaccinated patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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07 Aug 2023
NHS trust suspends two governors as whistleblower email dispute continues
By Tommy GreeneGovernors at an NHS trust have been suspended after asking questions about emails used to bring a General Medical Council investigation against a whistleblower
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04 Aug 2023
SoutheastHEALTH Joins Mercy, Gaining Access to Epic EHR System
By Sarai RodriguezA definitive agreement between Mercy and SoutheastHEALTH will merge the health systems, providing the latter access to the Epic EHR system.
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03 Aug 2023
Scottish NHS trust ducks fine after staff shared patient data via WhatsApp
By Alex ScroxtonNHS Lanarkshire has been issued a formal reprimand by the ICO after staff members used WhatsApp to share patients’ personal data with one another
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02 Aug 2023
House Legislators Propose $1.9B VA EHR Budget for 2024
By Hannah NelsonIf passed by the Senate, the bill would allocate $1.9 billion to the VA EHR modernization in fiscal year 2024, including $253 million for program management.
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02 Aug 2023
83% of Acute Care Hospitals Engage in Some SDOH Data Collection
By Sarai RodriguezDespite a known link between addressing social needs and improved health outcomes, just 54 percent of acute care hospitals engage in routine SDOH data collection.
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31 Jul 2023
Health IT Vendor Surescripts Settles Antitrust Lawsuit with FTC
By Hannah NelsonThe FTC has reached a settlement with Surescripts that prohibits the health IT vendor from executing non-compete agreements with employees.
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31 Jul 2023
G-Cloud 13 suppliers claim framework extension is making it ‘commercially unviable’ to sell through
By Caroline DonnellyGovernment procurement chiefs at the Crown Commercial Service are under fire for extending the life of the G-Cloud 13 framework and preventing suppliers from upping their prices as inflation bites
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28 Jul 2023
Three Provider Orgs Look to eClinicalWorks EHR for Workflow Upgrades
By Sarai RodriguezPrimary Care Joliet, Encore Health Group, UniVida Medical Centers have recently invested in eClinicalWorks EHR to advance workflow upgrades.
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28 Jul 2023
EHR Work Associated With Clinician Burnout Across Specialties
By Hannah NelsonA study found that a “pooling” system to triage patient portal messages did not reduce the odds of clinician burnout from EHR work.
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27 Jul 2023
AWS Releases Generative AI Service for Clinical Documentation
By Hannah NelsonThe new AWS service will support generative AI clinical documentation capabilities for general medicine and orthopedics specialties.
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26 Jul 2023
Cyber attack on IT supplier hits two major ambulance trusts
By Alex ScroxtonAmbulance trusts serving millions across southern England have been hamstrung for the past week after a cyber attack took down their hosted patient records system
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26 Jul 2023
VA Deploys Verizon Private 5G Network to Advance Patient Care
By Hannah NelsonThe Verizon private 5G network is set to enhance bandwidth and support patient care improvements at VA Palo Alto Health Care System.
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21 Jul 2023
Care Org Targets Enhanced Patient Care with Oracle EHR Implementation
By Sarai RodriguezAn Oracle EHR implementation is set to streamline integration between physical and behavioral healthcare, paving the way for better patient care decisions.
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21 Jul 2023
ONC Adds 20 New Data Elements to USCDI v4 to Drive Interoperability
By Hannah NelsonBased on stakeholder feedback, ONC added a data element to USCDI v4 that aims to improve the interoperability of allergen information.
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21 Jul 2023
Care Org Targets Enhanced Patient Care with Oracle EHR Implementation
By Sarai RodriguezAn Oracle EHR implementation is set to streamline integration between physical and behavioral healthcare, paving the way for better patient care decisions.
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19 Jul 2023
NLP EHR Integration Identifies Acute COVID-19 Cases with 94% Sensitivity
By Hannah NelsonA study found that an NLP EHR integration helped speed time to treatment and improved reporting accuracy for COVID-19 cases.
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19 Jul 2023
Oklahoma Proposes Opt-Out Provision in Updated Statewide HIE Rules
By Sarai RodriguezAfter the Governor rejected Senate Bill 1369, the subsequent rule changes now exempt healthcare providers from mandatory participation in the statewide HIE.
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18 Jul 2023
NextGen Healthcare Pays $31M to Resolve False Claims Act Violations
By Sarai RodriguezNextGen Healthcare allegedly breached the False Claims Act, falsely certifying and misrepresenting EHR software capabilities to exploit federal incentives.
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14 Jul 2023
CommonWell Health Alliance Reaches Network Population Milestone
By Mark MelchionnaThe trade association has surpassed a nationwide health data network population of 200 million individuals.
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14 Jul 2023
CommonWell Health Alliance Reaches Network Population Milestone
By Mark MelchionnaThe trade association has surpassed a nationwide health data network population of 200 million individuals.
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14 Jul 2023
NYC HIE Partners with Health IT Vendor for SDOH Interoperability
By Hannah NelsonThe health IT collaboration will establish HIE infrastructure for SDOH interoperability across NYC and Long Island communities.
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14 Jul 2023
UCLH uses machine learning to cope with emergency beds demand
By Lis EvenstadUniversity College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has deployed a machine learning tool which uses real-time data to predict how many emergency beds will be needed
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13 Jul 2023
Civitas Adds New Members to Drive Collaboration, Interoperability
By Hannah NelsonThe non-profit centered on advancing healthcare interoperability has a diverse membership, including HIEs, strategic technology partners, and RHICs.
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11 Jul 2023
The Sequoia Project, AHIMA Aims to Enhance Data Usability Efforts
By Mark MelchionnaThe organizations created a new initiative to assist healthcare organizations in navigating data usability.
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11 Jul 2023
WV Practice Taps Oracle Health EHR for Health Data Interoperability
By Hannah NelsonThe Oracle Health EHR implementation is set to support health data interoperability across Vandalia Health medical clinics for care coordination.
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10 Jul 2023
Met Office bids to make climate data more accessible with Esri
By Brian McKennaThe Met Office is offering a new data portal, built on Esri’s geographic information systems technology, to enable users to understand local and national impacts of climate change
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10 Jul 2023
Health System Deploys Support Service for Epic EHR Usability
By Hannah NelsonAfter moving to an Epic EHR system last year, Emory Healthcare is leveraging a virtual support tool from Experis to support EHR usability.
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07 Jul 2023
NC Works to Boost Broadband Access to Support Rural HIE Connectivity
By Hannah NelsonEfforts to improve broadband access are underway in North Carolina to help rural providers connect to the state-designated HIE.
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07 Jul 2023
SOGI Data Missing in Over 60% of Adult EHR Records, Study Finds
By Hannah NelsonAccurate sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) data are needed within EHR systems to address health disparities for SGM individuals.
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06 Jul 2023
Epic EHR Set to Streamline Care Team Communication at Albany Med
By Hannah NelsonThe Epic EHR will provide Albany Med clinicians with a secure chat function and mobile platform to support care team communication.
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06 Jul 2023
EHR Data Quality Guidelines Needed to Drive Interoperability
By Hannah NelsonThe healthcare industry lacks standard EHR data quality assessment guidelines and tools, which hinders interoperability.
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06 Jul 2023
Epic EHR Set to Streamline Care Team Communication at Albany Med
By Hannah NelsonThe Epic EHR will provide Albany Med clinicians with a secure chat function and mobile platform to support care team communication.
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05 Jul 2023
HHS OIG Releases Final Rule for Information Blocking Penalties
By Hannah NelsonIf the HHS OIG finds that an individual or entity has committed information blocking, they may be subject to up to a $1 million penalty.
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05 Jul 2023
UK public increasingly concerned over NHS data sovereignty
By Alex ScroxtonAmid security concerns and AI advances, a majority of the British public still trusts the NHS to store and analyse their health data, but would prefer it remains domiciled in the UK
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05 Jul 2023
HL7, WHO Partner to Drive Global Interoperability Standards Adoption
By Hannah NelsonThe collaboration between HL7 and WHO is set to support equitable development of and access to interoperability standards.
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04 Jul 2023
Scotland’s Techscaler programme joins forces with CivTech
By Lis EvenstadThe partnership between the scaler programme and the innovation accelerator means CivTech alumni companies will be offered Techscaler membership and gain access to its technology hubs, education initiatives and support
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03 Jul 2023
BlackCat gang claims cyber attack on Barts NHS Trust
By Alex ScroxtonInvestigations continue into a claim by the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang that it has stolen 7TB of data from Barts NHS Trust in London
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03 Jul 2023
Driving synergies in digital healthcare
By Pratima HarigunaniAs group CIO of API Holdings, Chandresh Dedhia has been driving synergies across a spectrum of digital healthcare businesses to create operational efficiency and other business outcomes
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30 Jun 2023
FQHC Implements eClinicalWorks EHR to Enhance Clinical Documentation
By Hannah NelsonThe FQHC has selected an eClinicalWorks EHR platform to streamline clinical documentation and drive value-based care delivery.
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30 Jun 2023
NHS data stolen in Manchester Uni ransomware attack
By Alex ScroxtonThe ransomware gang behind the cyber attack on the University of Manchester appears to have got its hands on an NHS dataset being used by the university for research purposes
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30 Jun 2023
Georgia HIE Receives $1M USDA Grant to Improve Rural Healthcare Services
By Hannah NelsonThe Georgia Health Information Network is partnering with a regional HIE on a telehealth network to expand rural healthcare access.
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29 Jun 2023
NHS has potential to get digital transformation right
By Lis EvenstadNHS must address digital skills gap in its workforce, demonstrate the value of the NHS App and address the digital maturity gap in organisations if it wants to succeed, MPs say
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29 Jun 2023
NHS England signs five-year Microsoft 365 contract
By Caroline DonnellyHot on the heels of its earlier deployment of Microsoft Teams, NHS England is now going all-in on the rest of the software giant’s online productivity tools
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29 Jun 2023
Ohio HIE Expands Partnership to Drive Interoperability, Data Usability
By Hannah NelsonCliniSync, an Ohio HIE, has selected an interoperability platform from health IT vendor Health Catalyst to improve data usability.
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29 Jun 2023
Brits are using healthcare apps without proper checks
By Karl FlindersAs mobile health app acceptance increases, people are taking risks by using them without any advice from their medical professionals, finds survey
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29 Jun 2023
NHS to launch Digital Health Check
By Lis EvenstadThe NHS Digital Health Check will be rolled out from spring 2024, and allow patients to do certain tests and get advice from their homes
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29 Jun 2023
The Finnish Food Authority uses AI to accelerate research
By Karl FlindersResearchers have reduced the time taken to get critical insights into potential public health crises and address issues in real-time, through artificial intelligence
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28 Jun 2023
DirectTrust Releases Draft Criteria for RA Health IT Accreditation Programs
By Hannah NelsonDirecTrust requests feedback on criteria for its updated suite of Registration Authority (RA) health IT accreditation programs until August 21st.
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28 Jun 2023
GDPR tax reclaim scheme preys on fears of SMEs
By Karl FlindersIT suppliers are a target of companies offering a tax reclaim scheme that preys on small businesses’ fears around General Data Protection Regulation compliance
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27 Jun 2023
Epic Announces Ambient Clinical Documentation EHR Integration
By Hannah NelsonThe ambient clinical documentation EHR integration is set to enhance Epic workflows by automatically drafting EHR notes.
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27 Jun 2023
Epic Announces Ambient Clinical Documentation EHR Integration
By Hannah NelsonThe ambient clinical documentation EHR integration is set to enhance Epic workflows by automatically drafting EHR notes.
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27 Jun 2023
VA to Maintain Hospital Staff Amidst Budget Deficit Linked to EHR
By Hannah NelsonAccording to a VA official, the agency is providing extra funding to hospitals in Spokane and Walla Walla to address budget shortfalls related to the new EHR system.
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26 Jun 2023
Oklahoma Governor Rejects Proposed Rule Changes for Statewide HIE
By Hannah NelsonHealthcare providers across the state have argued that a statewide health information exchange (HIE) would be a violation of patient privacy.
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23 Jun 2023
VA Confident in EHRM Despite Reported Oracle Cerner Layoffs
By Hannah NelsonRecent layoffs at Oracle Cerner are reportedly due to challenges the EHR vendor has faced with the $10 billion VA EHR modernization (EHRM) project.
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23 Jun 2023
Part-Time PCPs Spend Greater Share of Clinic Hours on EHR Than Peers
By Hannah NelsonA study found that part-time PCPs spend more time on the EHR per eight hours of scheduled work time than full-time physicians.
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22 Jun 2023
Health and care staff have three months to move to latest NHS patient record service
By Karl FlindersNHS England has told health and care workers they have until the end of September to switch to the latest patient record system
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22 Jun 2023
NHS England hires internally to fill CIO role
By Cliff SaranThe merger of NHS England and NHS Digital resulted in job losses, which meant the new organisation needed to fill the role of IT chief
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22 Jun 2023
State HIE Data Helps Drive Value-Based Care Across Management Org
By Hannah NelsonA tool that inserts the most critical HIE data into patient health records has helped a medical management organization achieve significant value-based care savings across its clinics.
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21 Jun 2023
AMA Announces 2023 Recipients of EHR Use Research Grant Program
By Hannah NelsonAwardees of the AMA EHR Use Research Grant include AllianceChicago, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, and MedStar Health.
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21 Jun 2023
Provider Orgs Deploy eClinicalWorks EHR Systems for Care Coordination
By Hannah NelsonA Washington-based pain management clinic has implemented an eClinicalWorks EHR to drive efficiency and care coordination.
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20 Jun 2023
ONC Project Taps FHIR to Extract Over 40% of Clinical Data Registry
By Sarai RodriguezONC revealed that using the FHIR to leverage data shows promise for the acquisition of clinical registry data, reducing processing times and improving submission delays.
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20 Jun 2023
More than 50% of care providers have adopted digital records
By Lis EvenstadThe adoption of digital social care records has reached more than 50%, but the sector still has a way to go to reach the government’s target of 80% by March 2024
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19 Jun 2023
Oracle Reportedly Lays Off Hundreds of Cerner Healthcare Employees
By Hannah NelsonThe reported layoffs within the Cerner Healthcare unit come days after Oracle announced quarterly revenue increases of 17 percent compared to last year.
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19 Jun 2023
Dutch government puts up €123m to address shortage of ICT workers
By Kim LoohuisFinancial injection aimed at improving cooperation between vocational education and business in the Netherlands, and making the tech professions more attractive
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16 Jun 2023
Almost Half of Hospitals Report Instances of Perceived Information Blocking
By Sarai RodriguezThe 21st Century Cures Act Final Rule aims to curb any interference with electronic health information. Despite this, some hospitals still report possible instances of information blocking.
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16 Jun 2023
HIE Announces Health IT Partnership to Drive EHR Interoperability
By Hannah NelsonAtlanta-based HI-BRIDGE HIE will collaborate with health IT vendor Innovar to improve EHR interoperability and reporting capabilities.
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15 Jun 2023
Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030: Progress report
By Pat BransHalfway into its plan to give the country a makeover by 2030, Saudi Arabia’s emphasis on technology is starting to pay off
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15 Jun 2023
VA Officials Exploring Health IT, HIE Solutions to Improve Interoperability
By Hannah NelsonAt a recent House hearing, Sachin Yende, VA chief medical officer, said the agency is looking to improve veteran care coordination through enhanced health IT interoperability.
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14 Jun 2023
Mercy Health Introduces Community Data Hub for Public Health
By Hannah NelsonA new resource from Mercy Health aims to help public health officials better understand community health by aggregating millions of publicly available data points.
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13 Jun 2023
64% of Clinical Documentation Integrity Clients Cite Reporting Issues
By Hannah NelsonWhile many clinical documentation integrity customers cite reporting as a challenge, health IT vendor Nuance stands out for high reporting accuracy, according to a KLAS report.
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13 Jun 2023
Public Health Reporting, Data Sharing Nearly Ubiquitous in Hospitals
By Sarai RodriguezAcute care hospitals saw a significant increase in public health reporting in 2022, with 96 percent actively participating, particularly in immunization, syndromic surveillance, and lab results reporting.
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12 Jun 2023
EHR Workflow Prompts Boost Lung Cancer Screening, LDCT Ordering
By Hannah NelsonEHR workflow prompts helped simplify the identification of patients for lung cancer screening and allowed physicians to order LDCT with a single click.
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12 Jun 2023
Annual spend on regtech to reach more than £200bn by 2028
By Karl FlindersGlobal corporates will spend over $200bn in 2028 as the technology is used to help organisations in more industries comply with complex regulations.
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12 Jun 2023
Epic Leads Medical Oncology EHR Market in Customer Satisfaction
By Hannah NelsonAmidst market consolidation, Epic has worked to build more robust medical oncology EHR functionality, including developments in patient oncology history and treatment plans.
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09 Jun 2023
Ohio Hospital Goes Live with MEDITECH Expanse EHR
By Sarai RodriguezThe newly launched MEDITECH Expanse EHR aims to boost functionality and interoperability, guiding clinical decisions with a full view of patient health histories.
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08 Jun 2023
VA Official: Staff Cuts Not Needed to Fix EHR-Related Budget Deficit
By Hannah NelsonHiring at the Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center will be subject to “considerable scrutiny" to address the EHR-related budget deficit, according to VA's Northwest regional director.
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08 Jun 2023
AWS, Interoperability Institute Partner on Virtual Innovation Center
By Hannah NelsonThe Interoperability Institute, a non-profit created by Michigan’s state HIE, is working with AWS on a project to accelerate health IT innovation.
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07 Jun 2023
UKtech50 2023: The most influential people in UK technology
By Lis EvenstadComputer Weekly has announced the 13th annual UKtech50 – our definitive list of the movers and shakers in the UK tech sector