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Health IT Pulse
Health IT Pulse is the blog for the writers and editors of SearchHealthIT.com, which covers health care technology and electronic health records infrastructure, applications, management and compliance.
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InterSystems IRIS Data Platform reduces complexity for Epic customers
- News Writer 13 Nov 2020 -
During COVID-19, CIOs struggle with predictive analytics programs
- News Writer 23 Oct 2020 -
Mayo Clinic leans on Google Cloud for AI success
- News Writer 25 Aug 2020
Epic is using the InterSystems IRIS Data Platform for data ingestion and analysis in its latest release of its EHR. Scott Gnau, vice president of data platforms at InterSystems, said the IRIS Data ...
Predictive analytics in healthcare has been a useful tool during the COVID-19 pandemic. It has helped healthcare organizations foresee changes in bed capacity or disruptions in the supply chain for ...
Mayo Clinic has spent the last 10 months focused on data and analytics initiatives with a long-term goal in mind: to make healthcare data more accessible and meaningful for clinicians. The ...
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HIMSS21 now slated for August in Las Vegas
- News Writer 31 Jul 2020 -
HIMSS 2020 to go digital as organizers work out logistics
- News Writer 12 Mar 2020 -
A list of vendors that have withdrawn from HIMSS 2020 conference
- News Writer 04 Mar 2020 -
Trump to speak at HIMSS 2020 conference
- News Writer 02 Mar 2020 -
Health data sharing rules ignite debate between Epic, HHS
- News Writer 13 Feb 2020 -
Marc Probst named CIO of the year by CHIME, HIMSS
- News Writer 30 Jan 2020 -
Cerner-AbleVets deal aimed at helping federal programs
- News Writer 24 Oct 2019
The show must go on. On Friday, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's leadership announced that its annual meeting will be an in-person event next summer. HIMSS discussed its ...
A digital version of the 2020 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition is happening -- albeit slowly. Health Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS) officials decided to cancel ...
*The HIMSS 2020 conference has been cancelled. The details of the 2020 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition are changing daily. Citing coronavirus concerns, some vendors have decided to ...
U.S. President Donald Trump will be a 2020 HIMSS Global Health Conference and Exhibition conference speaker. Karen Groppe, HIMSS senior director of strategic communications, announced the news ...
Contentions over proposed health data sharing rules, which would require health systems to implement standardized APIs, continue to heighten. EHR vendor Epic recently sent a letter signed by about ...
Intermountain Healthcare CIO Marc Probst is being recognized as CIO of the year by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and the Healthcare Information and Management ...
EHR vendor Cerner Corp. is bringing an IT consulting firm into the fold to assist with its work with federal clients, particularly with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Cerner is acquiring ...
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Clinical Pathology Laboratories comes forward, also hit by AMCA breach
- News Writer 19 Jul 2019 -
ONC deputy national coordinator for health IT departs
- News Writer 09 Jul 2019 -
After sudden departure, CMS says it's 'committed' to CHIO role
- News Writer 02 Jul 2019 -
American Medical Collection Agency breach impact reaches 20 million
- News Writer 06 Jun 2019 -
DirectTrust gets accreditation to develop health data exchange standards
- News Writer 09 Apr 2019 -
CMS taps Mark Roche as agency's first chief healthcare informatics officer
- News Writer 06 Mar 2019 -
AWS healthcare technical lead says interoperability in healthcare at scale a challenge
- News Writer 01 Mar 2019 -
Intermountain Healthcare executive talks FHIR standard
- News Writer 01 Feb 2019 -
ONC updates, adds to Interoperability Standards Advisory
- News Writer 15 Jan 2019 -
HHS publishes guide on cybersecurity practices
- Senior News Director 07 Jan 2019 -
HHS seeks input to modify HIPAA rules, expert says proceed carefully
- News Writer 24 Dec 2018 -
FDA selects 8 medical device developers into opioid crisis challenge
- News Writer 12 Dec 2018 -
Where blockchain in healthcare might actually make a difference
09 Nov 2018 -
HIEs provide access to patient records in wake of Hurricane Michael
- Editorial Assistant 24 Oct 2018 -
Patient vs. healthcare consumer? Musings on the CVS/Aetna merger
17 Oct 2018 -
A first person view of today's medical records system. It's not pretty
11 Sep 2018 -
Report: Mandatory PDMP doesn't always work to curb opioid crisis
- Editorial Assistant 03 Sep 2018 -
Use a patient approach with healthcare APIs
17 Aug 2018 -
3D printed organs help improve pre-surgical preparation
- Editorial Assistant 02 Aug 2018 -
To fix healthcare IT, start with medical appointment reminders
11 Jul 2018 -
Researchers use EHR data to predict opioid prescriptions
- Site Editor 22 Mar 2018 -
HIMSS 2018 exhibitors push cybersecurity products heavily
02 Mar 2018 -
AAFP recommends steps to reduce health IT regulations
- Site Editor 28 Feb 2018 -
New and established healthcare technology companies make big moves
09 Feb 2018 -
Good times: AI in healthcare brings promise, hype and challenges
17 Jan 2018 -
FDA adds digital health technology to 2018 policy roadmap
- Site Editor 12 Jan 2018 -
Top healthcare stories of a health IT reporter's career
- News Writer 05 Jan 2018 -
Tech giants take on healthcare technology industry
- News Writer 04 Jan 2018
Clinical Pathology Laboratories Inc. is the latest victim of a massive data breach that occurred at the American Medical Collection Agency, increasing the number of potentially affected patients to ...
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT will have a new deputy leader starting next month. ONC announced Monday that Jon White, M.D., deputy national coordinator for health IT, will ...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said it is committed to the role of federal chief health informatics officer, despite the sudden departure of its first appointment. Mark Roche, M.D., ...
A third medical testing company announced it has been impacted by the American Medical Collection Agency data breach, putting the total number of patients potentially affected at 20 million. In an ...
DirectTrust, a nonprofit association of health IT and healthcare organizations, has taken a step forward in developing health data exchange standards. The nonprofit announced Tuesday that it has ...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services appointed a new leader to drive change and interoperability in healthcare from the federal level. Mark Roche, a physician informaticist, will take on ...
Interoperability in healthcare isn't just a buzzword for the healthcare community, it's also something technology companies are talking about. Patrick Combes, technology leader for healthcare and ...
Stan Huff has spent years helping create what he believes is now one of the best standards for moving healthcare closer to interoperability. The Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) ...
Rules and regulations proposed by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology hang in limbo, thanks to the government shutdown. But that isn't stopping the federal ...
The Department of Health and Human Services published a guide of cybersecurity practices with the aim of reducing the growing risk from cyberattacks. The recommendations are just that -- ...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is seeking the public's input on how Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) rules should be modified to promote better patient ...
Eight applicants advance to the next stage of an FDA innovation challenge, which asked medical device developers to tackle the opioid crisis in new ways.
It’s almost too easy to dismiss the idea of blockchain in healthcare. The first major application of blockchain -- Bitcoin – does feel kind of sketchy (all the currency that went “missing”) and the ...
By October 18, Hurricane Michael, the strongest U.S. storm in terms of maximum sustained wind speed since Hurricane Andrew in 1992, left 35 people dead and displaced over 300,000 people in Florida, ...
During an interview on the PBS News Hour, CVS CEO Larry Merlo drew an interesting distinction when speaking about the future of healthcare. Fresh from the merger with Aetna, Merlo said people ...
The cardiologist walked in to the hospital room and handed me an envelope. “My notes and his test results are in there,” he said. “Don’t lose that – it’s gold.” Gold? Sure. But that envelope was ...
Given the statistics from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that 11.5 million people misused prescription opioids, contributing to 40% of all U.S. opioid overdose deaths in 2016, it seems ...
With this week’s news that healthcare interoperability is getting a boost from the support of six major tech companies, it’s tempting to think that is where the breakthroughs are going to happen. ...
Imagine that a surgeon is holding a duplicated organ in hand when illustrating specific pathologies to the patient before a scheduled operation. Thanks to the 3D printing technology, a true-to-life ...
All the talk about interoperability in healthcare misses the point, according to Rick Halton, vice president of Lumeon, a European automated care pathway platform provider that moved in to the US ...
EHR data can help healthcare providers identify which patients in a hospital were most likely to be prescribed opioids after discharge, according to researchers at the University of Colorado ...
Over the past month, HIMSS 2018 exhibitors have proposed nearly 150 story ideas to me, so I decided to informally track the topics associated with these product pitches. Although it didn't surprise ...
The American Academy of Family Physicians has recommended steps to relieve the burden of health IT regulations on physicians. In a letter to CMS administrator Seema Verma and ONC national ...
I am floored by how many players made significant moves in recent weeks to become new healthcare technology companies or further anchor their existing position in the industry. Consider these ...
I browsed through two vastly different reports on artificial intelligence (AI) this week, leading me to again wonder if there is substance on the matter or just a lot of hot air blowing around. My ...
In an effort to help consumers make informed health decisions, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) renewed its commitment to digital health technology in its 2018 strategic policy roadmap. The ...
I've been reporting and writing for SearchHealthIT for about three years and the day has come for me to say goodbye. Looking back on these past three years, I can't help but laugh at, as well as be ...
Consumer technology giants such as Apple, Google, Microsoft and more are accelerating their efforts to remake the healthcare technology industry by developing new tools geared towards consumers, ...