Providence, a 52-hospital health system based in Renton, Washington, views digital innovation as an important vehicle to overcoming industrywide challenges and transforming care delivery for the betterment of the communities it serves.Many of the…
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Cloud-based technology has enabled one healthcare provider’s swift transition to a new cancer treatment guideline.The private Sydney Adventist Hospital (the San) in Sydney’s north is an early adopter of the NSW Cancer Institute’s guideline…
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The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and the Sequoia Project on Monday announced the launch of Common Agreement Version 2.0, an update to the document most recently released this past November.ONC…
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Nurses report increased stress levels, and they have said a major contributor to burnout is unproductive charting – a burden that the KLAS Arch Collaborative says hospitals and health systems are able to help…
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Today, most remote patient monitoring services are billed under four Current Procedural Terminology codes. These codes can be split into two categories to help understand their uses. There are two RPM device monitoring codes…
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The ongoing impact of the February 21 Change Healthcare cyberattack and subsequent system outage threatens the sustainability of physician practices across the country, possibly resulting in closures, which could destabilize patient care in some…
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Digitalisation in healthcare holds the promise of optimising processes and expanding access to care. In some European countries such as Slovenia, Croatia, Estonia, Poland and Hungary, patients can access national portals that contain their prescriptions,…
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Private healthcare group IHH Healthcare has moved several on-premise database systems of its hospitals across Malaysia and Singapore to the cloud.IHH Singapore’s core application workloads, including the electronic medical record (EMR), enterprise data warehouse,…
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The shift toward value-based reimbursement demands that hospitals and health systems take a more thoughtful approach to population health management. That requires the development of robust analytics strategies to track care quality and help…
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The U.S. is considered one of the most dangerous high-income countries in the world in which to give birth. Meanwhile, there’s a shortage of OB-GYNs, leaving more than 2.2 million women of childbearing age…
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