The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s just-announced United States Core Data for Interoperability Standard, version 4, includes new data elements that advance the Biden-Harris administration’s priorities of advancing equity, diversity and…
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By Jill McKeon
July 13, 2023 – The Biden-Harris Administration issued its National Cybersecurity Strategy Implementation Plan (NCSIP), which provides a detailed roadmap to achieving the National Cybersecurity Strategy. The Administration published the National Cybersecurity Strategy…
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By Mark Melchionna
July 11, 2023 – In an effort to build better semantic interoperability of health information, the Sequoia Project and the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) have created Data Usability Taking Root, an…
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By Hannah Nelson
June 29, 2023 – Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has published a Health Level Seven International (HL7) Fast…
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Advantus Health Partners forms a new 10-year, $2.9B strategic partnership with Medline to establish agility and scale, supply chain resiliency and enhanced clinical integration with the nurses and physicians who use Medline’s product. This…
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Advantus Health Partners forms a new 10-year, $2.9B strategic partnership with Medline to establish agility and scale, supply chain resiliency and enhanced clinical integration with the nurses and physicians who use Medline’s product. This…
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By Sarai Rodriguez
June 28, 2023 – Hamilton Memorial Hospital District (HMHD) has been awarded nearly $900,000 through the USDA’s Emergency Rural Health Care grant, significantly contributing to the costs of its Epic EHR implementation.
“For years,…
Epic and Nuance have partnered to expand the use of Nuance’s DAX Express technology among Epic customers. By integrating DAX Express into Epic workflows, the aim is to alleviate clinician burnout by reducing documentation…
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1. Treat Telehealth Like Any Enterprise IT SystemAs telehealth services and remote health monitoring grow, IT teams must treat each edge devices, including wearables and implanted devices, and their supporting infrastructure as they would…
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Despite over 96% of hospitals having an electronic health record (EHR), a recent study showed alarming levels of dissatisfaction among physicians with their current EHR systems and an increased interest in wanting to change…
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