Our healthcare system has struggled with data silos and clumsy, antiquated data sharing practices forever and a variety of stakeholders will need to work together to achieve anything close to an “Uber of medical records.”
It’s well documented and understood that the healthcare industry has historically been slow to adopt new technology while other business sectors have welcomed it with ease. For example, while most industries abandoned the fax machine in the 1990s, as recently as 2017, fax
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DrFirst’s Patent-Pending AI-Based Tech Solves Major Hurdles to Medication Reconciliation
- DrFirst announced a pending patent for AI technology today that breaks down the “prescription language barriers” between different EHRs – a crucial step in the process to avoid adverse drug events – solving a once intractable problem faced by hospitals. - The new U.S. patented tech uses an advanced approach for applying AI to unstructured medical information to process free text into appropriate data fields of the EHRs, infer missing prescription elements based on context, and convert free
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Addressing Healthcare’s IT Security Oversight Challenges
Data theft within the healthcare sector continues to skyrocket, led by third-party data breaches and phishing attacks. Halfway through 2019, the number of patient records breached already exceeds the 2018 number by more than 10 million. Perhaps most concerning, many of the breaches lasted weeks or months before they were discovered.
Many health executives lack direct technology experience relevant to the healthcare industry, according to a Black Book Research survey of 308 executives. In
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Medigate and Cerner Partner to Advance Medical Device Security
- Medical device security and management solution Medigate is teaming up with Cerner to make it easier for healthcare organizations to establish and maintain strong network security, manage medical device security risks, and keep operations intact.- The average hospital room has nearly 15 to 20 devices that can connect to the cloud and apps. This is exactly why device security and healthcare technology must work together to ensure the protection of the most sensitive and valuable data.Medigate,
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Amazon Comprehend Medical Adds Ontology Linking to Help Clinicians Detect Medication and Medical Conditions in Unstructured Clinical Text
- Amazon Comprehend Medical, Amazon’s HIPAA eligible natural language processing service that uses machine learning to find insights in unstructured texts, announced a new capability of linking information to medical ontologies. - The new ontology-linking feature will help clinicians to detect medication and medical conditions in unstructured clinical text. Amazon will now support ICD-10-CM and RxNorm ontologies through Comprehend Medical. Amazon Comprehend, a HIPAA eligible natural language
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Cerner Integrates Change Healthcare Solutions to Automate Acute Case Management
- Cerner integrates Change Healthcare InterQual Connect medical review and InterQual AutoReview into its EHR and acute case management solution. - Case management innovation supports medical review automation to lessen the administrative burden and increase focus on patient care.Change Healthcare today announced that Cerner Corporation, a global healthcare technology company, has integrated Change Healthcare’s InterQual Connect Medical Review Service and InterQual AutoReview into its Acute Case
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Identity and Access Management – Bridging the Efficiency and Security Gap in Healthcare
The healthcare sector is charged with preserving some of the most sensitive information of any industry. Hospitals and clinics are required to securely store data, such as social security numbers, patient medical records, insurance policy details, and credit card numbers. Although healthcare administrators are confronted with copious amounts of sensitive information, it would be incorrect to assume that the industry is a beacon of cybersecurity best practices. In fact, 13.2 million patient
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VerityStream Acquires CredentialMyDoc for $9M in Cash
- VerityStream acquires CredentialMyDoc, a Savannah, GA-based web-based, software for credentialing and provider for $9M in cash. - The acquisition of CredentialMyDoc bolsters VerityStream’s leadership position in the outpatient facility market segment.VerityStream, f/k/a Verity, a wholly owned subsidiary of HealthStream (Nasdaq: HSTM), which is focused on delivering enterprise-class solutions that are transforming credentialing, enrollment, privileging, and evaluations for healthcare
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New Year, New Codes: Best Practices for Keeping Your Chargemaster Up-To-Date
While Q4 is busy for every industry, it is especially taxing for those in the healthcare space. In addition to the quarterly update of HCPCS codes, Q4 brings the release of next year’s Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) and HCPCS codes and also sees the release of the final rules for the prospective payment systems.
On top of the work going on behind the scenes, the end of the year is a notoriously busy time for hospitals as patients make a mad dash to complete their final visits for the year.
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CommonSpirit to Deploy Notable’s AI Platform to Personalize Medical Intake Experience
- CommonSpiritHealth partners with Notable Health to personalize and automate the medical intake process for patients and providers to improve care quality and outcomes. - Notable's intelligent platform frees time for physicians and staff to spend with patients and shortens their workdays to help prevent burnout and increase satisfaction. - During appointments, CommonSpirit Health physicians will utilize the Apple Watch wearable technology with which they can dictate a summary of the
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