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The American Medical Association (AMA) announced today nine organizations selected as recipients of the 2023 Electronic Health Record Use Research Grant Program. This year’s grant recipients will divide $589k to fund research examining patterns of EHR use to inform solutions that prevent clinician burnout and turnover, enhance high-quality patient care, and improve workflows, teamwork, and resource allocation at the practice level.
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University Hospitals Taps Nuance to Improve Patient Engagement
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Nuance Communications announced that Cleveland-based University Hospitals has chosen Nuance Patient Engagement Solutions to improve patient experiences by providing streamlined, secure, around-the-clock support to patients. The future of healthcare depends on the unified communication between patients and providers. Nuance's platform integrates directly into University Hospital’s existing infrastructure and extends the capabilities of the EHR to accelerate the
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5 Strategies for Providers to Overcome ePHI Security Challenges
The latest report from the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) reveals a concerning trend: HIPAA violations and data breaches are drastically increasing.
According to the report, HIPAA violations surged by 39% between 2017 and 2021 and the number of large healthcare data breaches (those affecting 500 or more records) rose by 58%. More than 5,000 incidents were reported, compromising more than 382 million healthcare records and surpassing the population of the United States by 1.2 times. Small
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Healthcare Leaders Unclear on True Causes of Worker Burnout
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There is a noteworthy disconnect between healthcare leaders and workers in identifying the primary cause of burnout, according to a new comprehensive survey by Holon Solutions. The latest report offers a compelling look staff burnout and dives into the pressing issues faced by healthcare leaders and workers. The report reveals that while healthcare leaders presume that insufficient time with patients is the primary stressor, workers pinpoint admin work as
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Pathology: Mindpeak, Proscia Partner To Improve Cancer Diagnosis
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Mindpeak, a leading provider of artificial intelligence (AI) for pathology, and Proscia®, a leading provider of digital and computational pathology solutions, have announced a partnership to broaden access to improved diagnosis for cancer patients.Through the collaboration, the companies lay the foundation for delivering tightly integrated AI-powered workflows that enable pathologists to provide more efficient, informed, and reproducible clinical
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GDIT Awarded $39M New Mexico Medicaid Enterprise Benefit Management Services Contract
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General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), a business unit of General Dynamics, announced today that it was awarded a $39M Medicaid Enterprise Benefit Management Services contract by the state of New Mexico to support its Human Services Department (HSD). The new contract has a four-year base period with four option years.Under the Benefit Management Services contract, the GDIT team will implement a key module of this New Mexico’s Medicaid Management
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Global Healthcare ERP Market to Reach $9.6B by 2031
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The global healthcare ERP market is expected to reach $9.6 billion by 2031, expanding at a CAGR of 6.5% between 2021 and 2031, according to a recent report by Transparency Market Research Inc.The report reveals the rise in remote patient monitoring and telehealth after the COVID-19 peak driving significant opportunities for stakeholders in the global healthcare ERP industry.
Rising Global Demand for Healthcare ERP
Healthcare enterprise resource planning (ERP)
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Why Health Tech Firms Must Hire Chief Medical Officers
The health tech industry is driven by innovation and is constantly in a state of change. Yet it’s clear that post-pandemic investors and consumers are a lot less comfortable with decision-making that is purely made by technology gurus without senior medical expertise in the room.
From the outside looking in, it might seem obvious to have a medical officer on your leadership team, but research shows this is often not the case. According to CB Insights’ most recent ‘Digital Health 150’, it was
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Roundups: 18 Recent Strategic Digital Health Partnerships
care.ai, an advanced Smart Care Facility Platform partners with Samsung to bring the highest quality graphics and display to care settings, elevating the patient experience by transforming hospitals, nursing homes and care facilities with smarter, more responsive care environments. care.ai can deliver an elevated experience for both clinicians and patients by offering health systems integrated solutions combining care.ai's Smart Care Facility Platform with Samsung's healthcare-grade displays.
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Top 4 Clinical Data Ingestion Challenges for Provider Execs
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Redox, a provider of healthcare interoperability – recently partnered with Sage Growth Partners to survey executives and technology decision-makers from over 100 large academic medical centers and multi-hospital health systems.The survey uncovered strategic cloud investment priorities for large healthcare organizations, including current and future use cases and desired business outcomes for cloud technology, as well as roadblocks to realizing those outcomes at scale.
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