If we want to deliver an effective, connected health and care system we must get the basics right – and that means adopting standards consistently. By Lorraine Foley from the Professional Record Standards BodyIt is…
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What You Should Know:
– As chronic disease rates rise across the U.S., researchers are exploring how electronic health records (EHRs) can be used to improve public health surveillance and intervention efforts. While 90% of…
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Lurie Children’s Hospital revolutionized care with a patient portal, solving challenges of limited access points. Ravi Patel led this innovative shift, streamlining care through a digital front door strategy—phased implementation of integrated digital tools,…
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The following is a guest article by Boris Dzhingarov.
In today’s technologically advanced world, the healthcare system is also undergoing a rapid digital transformation, especially in regard to data storage and protection. Hospital records contain…
Healthcare organizations are one of the biggest targets of cyber attacks. A survey we conducted found that more than half of healthcare IT leaders report that their organization has faced a cybersecurity incident in…
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The Biden Administration has proposed significant updates to Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 rule. The rule, Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability in Programs or Activities Receiving Federal Financial Assistance, updates…
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What You Should Know: – Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India’s largest information technology services company, has been ordered to pay $140M in punitive damages to Epic Systems Corporation in a long-running legal dispute over…
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When the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) released its proposed rule that would remove some of the Covid-19 telehealth flexibilities for the prescribing of controlled substances, it caused an uproar from telehealth companies and advocates….
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Understanding how artificial intelligence (AI) fits into the future of a healthcare organization is a challenge at a level that most leaders have never faced and are not prepared for. Both clinicians and administrators…
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If newly proposed regulations are finalized in New York, hospitals in the state will soon have to beef up their cybersecurity measures.
This week, New York Governor Kathy Hochul released a proposed set of cybersecurity…
