Northwell Health this week announced a new seven-year agreement with Philips designed to standardize patient monitoring technology across its 21 hospitals and 850 outpatient facilities.WHY IT MATTERS
By taking an enterprise-wide approach to its IT…
Commonwealth Pain and Spine, a provider organization that serves Indiana and Kentucky, was undergoing rapid growth, but its electronic health record system was not keeping up with needs.THE PROBLEM
The system staff were using at…
Online alcohol recovery programs Monument and Tempest shared users’ personal information with third-party advertisers for several years, according to a data breach notification filed last week with California’s attorney general. In the notice, first reported…
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The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) is promoting the use of prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) and health information exchange (HIE) tools to address the opioid epidemic in the…
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A recent report in the Annals of Family Medicine reveals that healthcare providers take into consideration social determinants of health (SDOH) data in around 35% of healthcare decision-making. The report emphasizes the importance of…
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What You Should Know:– Intermountain Health announced it is expanding the use of Kyruus’ ProviderMatch® platform to power a new digital patient experience initiative.– This expansion builds on an existing relationship with Kyruus via legacy SCL Health…
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The following is a guest article by Nic McMahon, CEO at United Language Group
Communication and connection are crucial in healthcare settings. To better connect with their community and ensure equitable access, healthcare organizations are…
What You Should Know:Patientory Inc., the creator of a blockchain-based, HIPAA-compliant, private medical data ecosystem, announced today that it has launched two solutions–Patientory Consumer Decentralized Application-designed to help patients more efficiently and securely store…
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We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Vice President, Compliance and Program Development position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT…
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Total Specific Solutions (TSS) has acquired Irish Medical Systems (Holdings) Ltd, better known in the Irish and UK market as IMS Maxims, in what is its first acquisition in Ireland and sixth in the UK…
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