New Zealand’s new program, providing round-the-clock access to primary healthcare services, has gone live.The 24/7 online general practice service, first announced in March and piloted in May, seeks to help relieve the overcrowding in emergency…
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WakeMed Health & Hospitals, a health system based in Raleigh, North Carolina, faced a significant challenge regarding its electronic health record. Dollars and quality points matter deeply to health systems, and the EHR is…
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Josh Clark, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s vice president of quality and safety operating systems, oversees design and implementation of the IHI Care Operating System, a system of technology-enabled workflows that connects clinical care,…
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Healthcare workers in the United States continue to experience high levels of job-related stress and burnout, particularly among nurses in the frontlines of healthcare delivery. Burnout is an occupational phenomenon that results from chronic…
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Northwell Health is broadening its use of a suite of safety and security technologies designed to keep its employees and patients safe network-wide. WHY IT MATTERSWorking with Motorola Solutions, the New York health system is…
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Over the past two decades, nearly 200 rural hospitals have closed in the U.S., with an additional 700 at risk of closing soon. And with big cuts to Medicaid on the agenda in Congress,…
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Altera launches new patient toolsThis week, Altera Digital Health launched a new patient engagement platform that fully integrates with the existing Sunrise EHR for mid-size hospitals and health systems.
Called CarePath, the technology can help…
Telemedicine is a tool that can work wonders for all kinds of general and specialty care. And care for children with special needs and their families is no different.Dr. Patricia Hayes is chief medical…
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Artificial intelligence is at work everywhere across healthcare these days, from small-bore pilot projects to big implementations designed to nudge enterprise-wide improvements. But as hospitals and health systems pursue AI initiatives in earnest, many…
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The reality of a threat landscape emboldened by artificial intelligence means more cyber adversaries can push their malicious code, breaking through an organization’s endpoint detection and response systems, whether they take jailbroken or uncensored…
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