At the end of last month, President Trump dismissed VA Secretary David Shulkin, MD, following weeks of speculation that he would do just that. In Shulkin’s place, Trump nominated his personal White House physician, Rear Admiral Ronny Jackson, a physician who’s never managed a large healthcare organization.Shulkin’s dismissal left unsigned the contract with Cerner to replace the VA’s venerable VistA healthcare IT platform. It’s not that the Cerner deal is really threatened without Shulkin—VA
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GE Healthcare IT Sell-Off: The First Cut Is The Deepest?
Editor's Note: Steve Holloway is a Director at Signify Research, an independent supplier of market intelligence and consultancy to the global healthcare technology industry. Steve has 8 years of experience in healthcare technology market intelligence, having served as Senior Analyst at InMedica (part of IMS Research) and Associate Director for IHS Inc.’s Healthcare Technology practice. Steve’s areas of expertise include Healthcare IT and Medical Imaging. As news broke of the first GE Healthcare
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Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare – Do the Benefits Outweigh the Challenges?
Editor's Note: Jeffrey Hoffmeister is the VP, medical director at iCAD, Jeffrey has participated in developing mammographic AI solutions for 25 years. He has provided clinical insight to engineering and marketing teams, and managed the design and implementation of clinical studies for FDA approval of mammographic AI products, from iCAD’s first mammography CAD product, SecondLook, in 2002 to iCAD’s most recent digital breast tomosynthesis AI solution, PowerLook Tomo Detection. As healthcare
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How do Clinical Wearables Impact Patient Care and Quality of Life?
Editor's Note: Behsad Zomorodi is the Founder and CEO of phamax: a Swiss pharmaceutical consultancy that is passionate about simplifying healthcare market access complexities. Behsad has over two decades of industry and consulting experience in the healthcare sector. At phamax, Behsad heads long-term strategic planning, business development, and investor relations.Health technology and clinical wearables are hot topics in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries. They are creating waves of
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Is Your Health Data More Safe or Vulnerable in the Cloud?
Editor’s Note: Richard Sullivan is the chief operations officer for Medsphere Systems Corporation, the solution provider for the OpenVista electronic health record.The illusion of control is tempting, even intoxicating. It’s also a common characteristic that almost all humans manifest to one degree or another as we work to satisfy competence motives, the need for security, survival instincts.Because proximity often feels like control, it might also get in the way of secure healthcare IT.“Files
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How Big Data Enhances the Patient Experience
Editor's Note: Dave Bennett is the EVP of product and strategy for Orion Health, focused on new models of medicine. Prior to joining Orion Health, Bennett founded Cyclone Commerce in 1996, which was acquired by Axway in 2006.Because the data capacity for flash drives and secure digital memory card storage increased immensely over the past two decades, mobile phones have gone from simple handsets used for text messaging, phone calls, and the occasional game of Snake, to sophisticated devices that
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Post-HIMSS18: Where are the Interoperable Killer Apps in Healthcare?
In his HIMSS keynote address, Alphabet’s former executive chairman and now current technical advisor Eric Schmidt warned attendees that the “future of healthcare lies in the need for killer apps.” But he also cautioned that the transition to a better digitally connected health future isn't just one killer app, but a system of apps working together in the cloud. He also advocated transforming the massive amount of data held in EHRs into information and knowledge.Schmidt is correct in his
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Why Networks Are Essential for Real-Time Healthcare
Editor's Note: Gary Holland is the Director of Verticals Marketing, IP/Optical Networks, at Nokia where he is responsible for marketing Nokia's IP and Optical Networks (ION) portfolio to enterprise, industries, government, and public sector verticals, both directly and through Global Alliance partners.Healthcare systems around the world have embraced the vision of highly connected, digitally enhanced, patient-driven care. But today those systems are handling more data than ever before, which is
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7 Things Healthcare Organizations Need to Know About GDPR
Editor's Note: Reg Harnish is the CEO of GreyCastle Security, a leading cybersecurity services provider dedicated exclusively to cybersecurity and the practical management of cybersecurity risks.Since the arrival of HIPAA more 20 years ago, healthcare organizations and professionals have become painfully aware of the price for not safeguarding private medical information.In fact, more than 171,000 privacy rule complaints have been recorded since 2003, resulting in millions upon millions of
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Revenue Cycle: Why Patient Segmentation Is Key to Mitigating Financial Risk
Editor’s Note: Co-written by Erica Franko, Senior Vice President of Advisory services and Kelley Blair, SVP & GM, Mid-America at nThrive, a revenue cycle management company focused on aiding healthcare providers with Patient-to-Payment℠ solutions.With technology continuing to advance, making healthcare internet platforms easier to navigate, patients are becoming savvy consumers who increasingly are shopping for the healthcare they want to receive. Emerging trends, such as higher insurance
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