What You Should Know:
– EHR leader Epic announced the expansion of its Application Program Interfaces (APIs) for healthcare app developers.
– These APIs, available at no cost, will enable developers to access a more comprehensive…
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An outage to the EMIS IT system caused “chaos” for GPs in England when access was cut off to appointment booking systems and patient records at the busiest time of the week.
EMIS is the…
Introduction
Prior authorization is a widely implemented process in healthcare, intended to ensure that treatments, tests, and medications are necessary and cost-effective. However, many experts, including Peter Ax, CEO of UpScriptHealth, argue that prior authorization…
Concerns have been raised that the government’s NHS digital and data plans could exacerbate health inequalities for older adults who do not have access to technology.
In October 2024, the Department of Health and Social…
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust has extended the rollout of the InterSystems TrakCare health information system to digitise streamline intensive care unit (ICU) admissions processes.
The trust went live with the admissions and…
New York-based health IT company Altera Digital Health says its Microsoft Azure-built Paragon Denali electronic health record is now generally available for health systems.WHY IT MATTERSThe new electronic health record, available as software-as-a-service, brings…
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Billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk this past week took to his X social media platform to request that users of his Grok artificial intelligence chatbot upload their medical images and generate a diagnosis.”Try submitting…
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What You Should Know:
– Real Time Medical Systems (RTMS) is defending a preliminary injunction that prevents PointClickCare (PCC) from blocking RTMS’s access to patient electronic health records (EHRs).
– PCC, which owns the EHR platform,…
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At the HLTH conference in Las Vegas, MedCity News Editor-in-Chief Arundhati Parmar, Senior Reporter Katie Adams and Reporter Marissa Plescia interviewed executives who offered their insights on the shifting healthcare landscape in order to…
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At the HLTH conference in Las Vegas, MedCity News Editor-in-Chief Arundhati Parmar and Reporter Marissa Plescia interviewed executives who offered their insights on the shifting healthcare landscape. Their technologies span a variety of applications…
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