Several overlapping federal requirements – including the need for annual projects to maintain information blocking compliance and an aggressive time frame for decision support certification – represent big challenges for health IT developers, say leaders from the HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association. WHY IT MATTERS With a spate of regulations driving health IT product development
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services just released data on its Acute Hospital Care at Home initiative, which thus far has admitted 11,159 patients suffering from respiratory infections, heart failure and severe sepsis. While the program has proven successful in reducing hospital visits, the level of manpower it requires is costly and likely unsustainable
Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in Linkou District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan has recently been revalidated for Stage 7 of the HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model. It was also validated for Stage 6 of the HIMSS Infrastructure Adoption Model. The EMRAM measures an organisation’s adoption and maturity of their EMR capabilities while the INFRAM assesses their
Real-time insight into population health trends at the community level could be advanced by access to detailed and timely emergency medical response data, which is underutilized, said experts at HIMSS24 in Orlando this past week. That’s often due to challenges with data quality and a lack of interoperability with state health information exchanges and other
One of the big questions today in healthcare is how hospitals and health systems are going to make best use of the power of artificial intelligence across the enterprise. In just a short time, AI has arguably become the most powerful technology to ever impact healthcare. It brings with it many benefits and many challenges.
NVIDIA Healthcare this week announced the availability of 25 new cloud-agnostic microservices to help healthcare developers make use of generative AI in their applications, anywhere and across a wide-variety of specific use cases. WHY IT MATTERS The new healthcare microservices include optimized AI models and workflows with application programming interfaces, designed to serve as building
Prisma Health is the largest healthcare provider organization in South Carolina. It had encountered a problem while trying to gather patient biometrics and manage their clinical needs: fragmentation. THE PROBLEM The logistical challenge of distributing remote patient monitoring equipment to patients across the initial focus of approximately 50 physicians’ offices proved overwhelming with the organization’s
As healthcare providers worldwide grapple with worsening healthcare staff shortages and rising service demand, low-code technologies have proven indispensable in bridging these twin challenges while promoting positive outcomes for both patients and clinicians. Take the case of Mount Alvernia Hospital, a 300-bed private not-for-profit medical institution in Singapore. From the usual three months, it is now putting
As the fallout from the Change Healthcare ransomware attack heads into a second month, UnitedHealth Group said Monday that it’s paid $2 billion so far in financial advances for struggling providers and is testing medical claims software to resume payments. Meanwhile, federal leaders – including the White House, lawmakers and HHS, are discussing potential cybersecurity
Robert Slepin has a very interesting job, as emeritus CIO advisor at electronic health record giant Epic. There are only a dozen or so of these contractors, who are available on demand to Epic provider clients that need strategic advice or interim executive assistance from someone who’s deeply experienced with planning, implementing and maintaining Epic