What You Should Know:
- Jefferson Healthcare deploys LifeLink’s new AI-powered COVID-19 chatbot - a “digital front door” for Jefferson Health patients seeking info or treatment for the virus.
- Deployed in just days, the conversational COVID-19 chatbot has unlimited capacity to pre-screen, share best protocols and even schedule priority appointments across the Jefferson Health Network
Jefferson Health, a leading academic health system in Pennsylvania and New Jersey has deployed
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Cerner EHR To Power London’s 4,000-Bed Temporary Hospital for COVID-19 Patients
What You Should Know:
- The National Health Service (NHS) in England has selected Cerner to provide Cerner Millenium electronic health records (EHR) platform for a 4,000-bed temporary hospital at its 100-acre center ExCel London.
- The Millennium EHR platform will help healthcare professionals at this temporary facility access and record relevant information for COVID-19 patients in a scalable, reliable and accessible place.
- Cerner technology is already in place at Barts Health NHS
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TransformativeMed Offers Free EHR-Integrated COVID-19 Tracking and Workflow Solution to Seattle-Based Hospitals
What You Should Know:
- TransformativeMed offers free COVID-19 tracking and workflow solution to Seattle-based hospitals and medical centers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- The application works with electronic health records to track patient medical tests; helps with coronavirus patient workflows.
- COVID-19/CORES is already being used at UW Medicine, which includes the University of Washington Medical Center and Harborview Medical Center.
TransformativeMed, which transforms
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COVID-19: MEDITECH Offers Expanse Ambulatory Expanse Customers It’s Scheduled Virtual Visits Functionality Free of Charge
What You Should Know:
MEDITECH offers Expanse Ambulatory and Patient Portal
users complimentary deployment of our Scheduled Virtual Visits functionality
for a six-month period.
This solution, deployed through MEDITECH’s rapid response
team, can assist customers in battling the spread of the COVID-19, reducing
unnecessary risk to others and identifying the patients in need of care.
In an effort to help combat the COVID-19 pandemic, MEDITECH announced it will offer all
customers
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Hospital Execs Believe Their EMRs Will Fail to Meet Their Future Needs, Report Finds
What You Need to Know:
- New Sage Growth Partners report reveals more than a quarter (27 percent) of respondents believe their EMR will fail to meet their future needs. COOs are the most pessimistic (67 percent) followed by CEOs (37 percent), and CFOs (34 percent).
- Hospital Technology Forecast 2020 market survey report reveals hospital leaders’ top health IT investment priorities, challenges, and opportunities.
- 35 percent of hospital executives say if they could go back in time,
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Xealth Joins Epic App Orchard for EHR-Driven Digital Health Engagement
What You Need to Know:
- Xealth announces it has joined the Epic App Orchard Marketplace to drive digital health engagement for health systems using Epic EHR by optimizing the ordering, delivery, and monitoring of your digital health apps, content, products, and services across the enterprise.
- Through the secure Xealth platform, clinicians can find and order the right digital health tools and programs for patients direct from the EHR workflow, send these digital health orders to the
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MedBridge Partners with Redox to Expand Its Network of EMR Integrations
- MedBridge partners with healthcare integration platform Redox that will allow MedBridge users to quickly create and assign Home Exercise Programs, and more easily document within their EMR, without interrupting their workflow.
- MedBridge EMR integrated clients have already achieved savings of over $4,500 per clinician per year, by reducing five minutes of documentation time per patient.
MedBridge, the industry-leading continuing education and patient engagement solution that enables
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Can EHRs Stand Up Marketplaces for Innovation?
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) continues to advocate for improved data exchange, with the interoperability and information blocking rules being the latest federal push.
One of the ONC’s goals with its latest guidance is to establish an ecosystem of innovation, with electronic health records (EHRs) serving as the foundation -- i.e., the platform enabling application development and user access.
But when it comes developing an EHR-based marketplace for
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HHS Issues Strategies & Recommendations to Mitigate EHR-Related Clinician Burden
- HHS issues new report outlining the key sources of EHR-related burden, as well as strategies and recommendations to achieve burden reduction goals for healthcare providers.
- The HHS report reflects additional input from the more than 200 comments submitted in response to the draft strategy and recommendations.
As part of the
ongoing efforts to strengthen the relationship between patients and their
doctors, the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS) issued
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After Advent Health, Atrium Health to Replace Cerner with Epic EHR
- Charlotte-based health system Atrium Health announces it will replace Cerner electronic health system (EHR) with Epic EHR.
- The announcement marks the second health system to depart Cerner this month after AdventHealth announced it will replace Cerner and switch to Epic’s enterprise EHR and revenue cycle management system.
Atrium Health, one
of the nation’s most highly integrated not-for-profit healthcare systems based
in Charlotte, N.C. will replace their Cerner EHR system with its
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