Providence is a health system based in Renton, Washington. Announced in October, the Praia Health platform will be spinning out of Providence having secured its first customer outside of Providence, and over a dozen digital health partners joining Praia’s digital ecosystem.  Providence operates 52 hospitals and 800 clinics across seven states – Alaska, Montana, Oregon

Matthew McGuire, PharmD, manager of pharmacy supply chain and automation at University Hospitals Health System, based in Shaker Heights, Ohio, likes to put the problems encountered in the intricacies of pharmacy supply chain management like this. THE PROBLEM A routine trip to the grocery store mirrors the challenges faced in navigating through a plethora of

The American Hospital Association is taking exception at recently-updated rules from HHS Office for Civil Rights related to the use of online tracking tools by health systems and other HIPAA Covered Entities. The AHA this month told a federal court that OCR’s newest bulletin restricting covered entities and their business associates from using third-party web

Denis McDonough, secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, told the House VA Committee on Thursday that progress on the EHR Program RESET Act of 2023 – first introduced a year ago – will help address some of the challenges of the Oracle Health electronic health record rollout, and enable wider implementations in 2025.  WHY IT MATTERS While

Primary care physicians are the heart of healthcare delivery in the United States. In addition to providing many crucial health services, they are the traffic cop to all the other forms of healthcare throughout a health system. Virtual primary care, experts say, can address challenges in traditional care by filling existing care gaps and offering

It became clear across the healthcare cybersecurity landscape this week that the specter of a potential double-extortion attack by RansomHub is looming over Change Healthcare, following the February cyberattack by ALPHV. Further, a whirlwind of news on LockBit starts a complicated tale of international espionage and potential new threats to healthcare organizations from this group.

ChatGPT has been making an impact on enduring healthcare challenges. Many providers and patients are reporting the artificial intelligence helping with preventative care and preventing non-emergent emergency department visits. Imran Qureshi is chief technology officer at b.well Connected Health, a FHIR-based interoperability platform vendor. He has expertise in AI and a lot of advice to

75% of healthcare professionals expect widespread implementation of AI in three years, according to a new Berkeley Research Group study. That’s quite the positive response for a technology very new to healthcare. What’s more, 87% of provider respondents are confident in their organizations’ ability to comply with regulations surrounding AI, the study finds. Another unusually

The surge in electronic health record adoption has led to a significant increase in patient-physician inbox messages, a trend further amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic. This rise in digital communications has posed substantial challenges for health systems, prompting some to implement changes to manage the growing clinical burden. A recent study published in JAMA Network

With a $555,000 award from Massachusetts’ Technology & Innovation Ecosystem Awards Program and a private sector match, the MITRE Corporation will partner with the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School to run the Health AI Assurance Laboratory, the MassTech Collaborative announced Wednesday. WHY IT MATTERS The lab aims to contribute to emerging national standards for