Constance Sjoquist, Senior Healthcare Analyst with RazorMetrics
Large employers report that the biggest threat to self-funding medical coverage is the increasingly high cost of pharmacy claims. In their annual Health Benefits Priorities survey, MBGH found…
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology is accepting feedback on the Federal Information Processing Standards 203, 204 and 205 draft standards until November 22, according to its announcement in the Federal Register.Following the…
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Epic secures Intermountain Healthcare and UPMC as new EHR clients, with both health systems transitioning from Cerner. Intermountain plans to implement Epic’s EHR across its extensive network by the end of 2025, citing higher…
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Top Japanese manufacturer Shimadzu Corporation has come up with a prototype of a medical information system to support infectious disease management.It is claimed to be the first such system in Japan for facilitating consultations,…
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The team behind the development of Hira, New Zealand’s national health information platform, has recently shared its plan to build a connector plane that will provide application developers access to Hira APIs Based on a…
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Northern Health has started its transition from a paper-based medical record system to an integrated EMR system.After two years of preparation, its EMR system, developed with Oracle Cerner, is now being rolled out across…
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Samsung Medical Center in South Korea has become the first hospital in Asia-Pacific to be accredited for Stage 6 of the HIMSS Adoption Model for Analytics Maturity.The AMAM measures an organisation’s capabilities and advances…
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We chatted with Jim St. Clair, Customer Innovation at Interoperability Institute, to learn about the latest announcements from the Interoperability Institute, including their synthetic patient data packs designed to facilitate health interoperability and IT…
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Epic this past week gained two new big health system customers, as both Intermountain Healthcare and UPMC announced that they’ve decided to implement its electronic health records in the next few years.WHY IT MATTERSSalt…
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I was recently in a meeting of healthcare executives where the topic in question was how to best leverage technology when working with “older patients.” Compared to my physician experiences with the senior population,…
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