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Prioritizing Cybersecurity in Healthcare as a Measure of Patient Safety

HealthTech Magazine - (Thursday July 10, 2025)
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Healthcare Cybersecurity Is Also a Clinical Concern
When a ransomware attack hampers a hospital’s electronic health records, the ripple effects are immediate and potentially life-threatening with diagnostic delays, canceled procedures and disrupted prescriptions. Every second…

How machine learning on real world clinical data improves adverse event recording for endoscopy

npj Digital Medicine - (Thursday July 10, 2025)
AI/ Frequent Updates/ npj Digital Medicine

Endoscopic interventions are essential for diagnosing and treating gastrointestinal conditions. Accurate and comprehensive documentation is crucial for enhancing patient safety and optimizing clinical outcomes; however, adverse events remain underreported. This study evaluates a machine…

Benchmarking vision-language models for diagnostics in emergency and critical care settings

npj Digital Medicine - (Thursday July 10, 2025)
Frequent Updates/ npj Digital Medicine

The applicability of vision-language models (VLMs) for acute care in emergency and intensive care units remains underexplored. Using a multimodal dataset of diagnostic questions involving medical images and clinical context, we benchmarked several small…

HHS Reverses 1998 PRWORA Interpretation: Tightens “Federal Public Benefit” Access for Illegal Aliens

HIT Consultant - (Thursday July 10, 2025)
Frequent Updates/ HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: 

– The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced a significant policy shift aimed at restoring compliance with federal law and ensuring that taxpayer-funded program benefits, originally intended…

EPtalk by Dr. Jayne 7/10/25

HIStalk - (Thursday July 10, 2025)
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I finally had time to dig into the recent paper about the “accumulation of cognitive debt” that happens when using AI assistants.
As a proud member of Generation X, I first experienced those…

Hospital M&A Activity Rises in Q2 2025, While Financial Performance Remains Stable Despite Challenges

HIT Consultant - (Thursday July 10, 2025)
Frequent Updates/ HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: 

– Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) for hospitals and health systems saw an uptick in the second quarter of 2025, rising to eight transactions from the previous quarter’s five, according to Kaufman…

Access Healthcare and Smarter Technologies Applying AI to Revenue Cycle Management

Healthcare IT Today - (Thursday July 10, 2025)
Healthcare IT Today/ Videos

Access Healthcare, now part of Smarter Technologies, makes revenue cycle management (RCM) more accurate and cheaper by breaking the process into modules and automating each one using AI.  To learn more about how they're…

Healthcare 911 Compliance and Safety Solutions

DistilINFO Hospital IT - (Thursday July 10, 2025)
Daily Reads/ DistilINFO Hospital IT

Table of Contents

The Critical Need for Modern Emergency Response
Why Administrative Lines Fail in Emergencies
Understanding E911 Compliance Requirements
Healthcare’s Complex Emergency Response Challenges
Real-World Emergency Scenarios and Risks
Comprehensive E911 Solutions for Healthcare
Proven Benefits and Implementation Results
Taking Action:…

Oracle Cloud Saves Hospitals Millions Annually

DistilINFO Hospital IT - (Thursday July 10, 2025)
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Table of Contents

Oracle Cloud Implementation Overview
Financial Impact and Cost Savings
Technology Transformation Strategy

Supply Chain Management Revolution
Financial System Modernization
Human Capital Management Upgrade

Operational Benefits and Efficiency Gains
Patient Care Improvements
Implementation Challenges and Solutions
Future Outlook and Expansion Plans

Oracle Cloud…

Epic EHR Cloud Migration Success Stories

DistilINFO Hospital IT - (Thursday July 10, 2025)
Daily Reads/ DistilINFO Hospital IT

Table of Contents

Introduction to Healthcare Cloud Migration
Tufts Medicine: Pioneering Epic EHR Cloud Migration
Baptist Memorial: Large-Scale Cloud Transformation
Key Benefits of EHR Cloud Migration
Implementation Timeline and Process
Cost Optimization and Performance Gains
Future of Healthcare Cloud Computing
Conclusion

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Introduction…


I am an experienced healthcare executive with over 15 years of deep clinical and informatics expertise in the design, development, implementation and support of complex healthcare solutions. Beginning my career as a cardiologist, I understand the needs of clinicians and the nature of their work.