Driving clinical and operational improvements and enhancing EMRs functionality will be the focus of health IT investments in 2015, according to the results of a new healthcare leadership survey released today by Royal Philips. These investments are focused on direct patient care and supporting collaboration across the care continuum, resulting in financial improvements – another key initiative behind HIT spend.
As hospitals and IDNs adjust priorities to address the shift from volume to
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Archives for 2015
Nuance, MEDITECH, IMO Partner to Automate Patient Problem Lists
Nuance has announced a collaboration with Intelligent Medical Objects(IMO) and MEDITECH to take rich clinical narratives from physician notes, extract key facts as structured data and automatically populate patient problem lists and allergy lists using physician-friendly terminologies to preserve clinical intent of physician documentation in the EHR.
This unique approach enables healthcare providers to translate unstructured narrative text into clinically-accurate, discrete data in the EHR
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Nudge App Helps Consumers Make Sense of Wearables Data
Leading health tech company, Nudge, today announced a new service that bridges the gap between consumers using wearables and fitness trackers, and health professionals. Nudge+Coach is a big leap in the health space, providing consumers with a way to connect directly to a vetted network of health coaches directly from the Nudge app.
By partnering with a Nudge coach, consumers gain access to a virtual accountability partner that can help make sense of wearables and fitness tracking data, and
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Women’s Health Leader Dismayed by Proposed Changes to Meaningful Use Criteria
Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families issues statement in response to the recently proposed modification to meaningful use for 2015 to 2017, released by CMS on Friday.
“The proposed modification to meaningful use for 2015 to 2017, released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on Friday, is a startling and unwelcome departure from the administration’s commitment to health care transformation that produces higher value, more patient-
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HIMSS Infographic: Top Priorities for Healthcare IT Leadership
The 26th Annual HIMSS Leadership Survey reflects the experiences and opinions of information technology (IT) professionals in U.S. healthcare provider organizations regarding the use of IT in their organizations. This study covers a wide array of topics crucial to healthcare IT leadership including IT priorities, issues driving and challenging technology adoption, impact on patient engagement, and the level of support that IT has from the Executive team and Board of Directors. Because the
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HIMSS Infographic: The Evolving Role of Informatics Nurses
HIMSS released the results of the 2015 Impact of the Informatics Nurses Survey – a survey of nearly 600 participants including C-suite executives, clinical analysts and informatics nurses. The survey examined the growing technology-driven healthcare ecosystem and the role nursing informatics – a specialty that integrates knowledge, data and wisdom – is playing in this evolving environment. The results indicated that the role of informatics nurses has expanded greatly and is having immense impact
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Practice Fusion to Launch EHR-Based Clinical Trial Network
Cloud-based EHR provider, Practice Fusion is partnering with EHR clinical trail provider, ePatientFinder to launch one of the nation’s largest EHR-based clinical trial networks. This partnership will enable physicians using Practice Fusion’s EHR to learn about the newest clinical trials and which of their patients may be eligible to participate.
With over 50 million patient encounters a year, Practice Fusion’s partnership with ePatientFinder will help launch one of the nation’s largest
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HIMSS15 Day 2 Summary and Highlights
26th Annual HIMSS Leadership Survey Reveals Top Priorities for Healthcare Leaders
HIMSS released the results of the 26th Annual HIMSS Leadership Survey. The survey of more than 300 participants, examined key trending issues impacting the business of healthcare including patient considerations, security concerns, insurance models and policy mandates. This survey revealed that 72 percent of respondents report that consumer and patient considerations, such as patient engagement,
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Report: Hospitals That Use Tablets/Mobile Devices Are More Efficient
74 percent of hospitals that use tablets or other mobile devices to collect information from patients are more efficient than those that don't, according to a new report by Ricoh. The report reveals more than half (54 percent) say patients are less anxious during hospital visits when healthcare providers use tablets or other mobile devices to perform data collection.
These are among the findings of an online survey conducted by Harris Poll of more than 2,000 adults in the United States
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IBM to Acquire Explorys & Phytel To Fuel Watson Health Unit
Today IBM announced plans to acquire Explorys, a healthcare intelligence cloud company that has built one of the largest clinical data sets in the world and Phytel, a leading provider of integrated population health management software. The acquisition of both companies strengthens IBM's leadership position in healthcare analytics and cloud computing, and will help bolster its ability to extract and share deep insights to improve wellness and benefit patients.
Explorys and Phytel will now
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