Ellen Coughlan, programme manager at the Health Foundation provides insght on how they helped to create a free and openly available tool for organisations to take the first step toward realising the value of the data they collect. Powered by WPeMatico
As directed by President Trump’s Executive Order on Improving Price and Quality Transparency in American Healthcare, today the Department of Health and Human Services is announcing that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is issuing two rules that take historic steps to increase price transparency to empower patients and increase competition among all ...
Five CDS technology pros describe some comprehensive best practices for making the technology work optimally for provider organizations. Powered by WPeMatico
Just under half (49 percent) of all post-acute providers surveyed said the state of their staff’s health information technology proficiency is either “extremely poor” or “non-existent,” a new Black Book report shows. Powered by WPeMatico
Researchers sought to assess and benchmark how physicians view electronic health record usability, as defined by a standardized metric, and use that to evaluate how poor UX correlates with feelings of job frustration and burnout. Powered by WPeMatico
A novel diagnostics technology that reads gene expression patterns in the immune system to distinguish bacterial infections from viral infections and determines the severity within minutes will receive advanced development support from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The technology is being designed for use in outpatient and inpatient healthcare settings. The ...
Two healthcare cybersecurity experts who will be speaking at the upcoming HIMSS Healthcare Security Forum offer comprehensive advice on everything from breach containment to security operations centers. Powered by WPeMatico
Despite HIPAA’s right of access rule, and CMS and ONC prioritizing consumer access in their forthcoming 21st Century Cures regs, a new scorecard shows that providers have some work to do. Powered by WPeMatico
Philips’ strong patient monitoring portfolio in critical care provides continuous monitoring for every care setting – from the point-of-care, to the unit central station, to a virtualised care provider or team. Powered by WPeMatico
Indiana Health Information Exchange and Michiana Health Information Network will merge in 2020, at which point all MHIN employees will become IHIE employees, with offices in Indianapolis and South Bend. Powered by WPeMatico
