- CHIME and Digital Health Canada launches an international chapter in Canada that will be operated by Canada’s Health Informatics Executive Forum (CHIEF). - CHIEF brings together more than 150 CIOs and senior healthcare leaders from healthcare delivery, government, and private sector organizations across Canada.The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and Digital Health Canada announced today that they have launched an international chapter in Canada at the CHIME Fall
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ECRI Institute: Top 4 Biggest Risks in Ambulatory Care to Watch
- ECRI Institute report reveals diagnostic testing and medication events are the most frequent safety risks patients face in ambulatory care.- Analysis of more than 4,300 adverse events reveals bifurcated healthcare system challenging outcomes.Diagnostic testing and medication events are the most frequent safety risks patients face in ambulatory care, according to new research from ECRI Institute, the nation’s leading independent, non-profit patient safety organization. ECRI Institute’s Deep
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AVIA Lands $22M to Expand Healthcare Innovation Network to New Markets
- AVIA raises $22M to expand its leading healthcare innovation network to expand its service offerings and reach new markets. - Specifically, AVIA will tap into the new funds to grow its offerings in areas including consumerism, population health, and risk management, and to reach new markets such as pediatric hospitals and payers.- Members of the AVIA Innovator Network access unique insights, participate in collaborative strategic initiatives, and engage in consulting services to increase speed
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Mount Sinai Launches Diversity Innovation Hub to Tackle Racism, Bias, and Gender Equity in Medicine
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai launches first of its kind Diversity and Inclusion Hub spearheaded by the Mount Sinai’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion.- Groundbreaking program to engage the local Harlem community and critical neighborhood stakeholders through innovation to tackle racism, bias, and gender equity in medicine and healthcare.The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai – an international leader in medical and scientific training, biomedical research, and patient care –
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SwipseSense Combines EHR Data With RTLS Data to Deliver Operational Insights
- Redox announced a partnership with SwipeSense to help eliminate waste and improve patient outcomes in healthcare delivery networks.- The partnership ensures that SwipeSense’s growing portfolio of applications is fully interoperable with any EHR system, while greatly reducing the time and effort required to integrate into a hospital’s existing suite of tools.- With Redox, SwipeSense will be automatically notified of all relevant patient admission, discharge, and transfer events, enhancing their
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Microsoft, Nuance Partner to Develop Ambient Clinical Intelligence to Combat Clinician Burnout
- Nuance and Microsoft have joined forces to accelerate the delivery of ambient clinical intelligence (ACI) technologies that will power the exam room of the future where clinical documentation writes itself.
- Strategic partnership's focus is to reduce clinician burnout by enabling doctors to focus on patients, while AI focuses on administrative tasks.
Today, Microsoft and Nuance Communications announced a
strategic partnership to accelerate the
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The Health IT Staffing Shortage Is a Problem Morphing Into a Crisis
Staffing shortages have plagued the healthcare industry for years, and this year hospital IT departments are feeling more pain than ever. The shortfall in physicians and nurses understandably gets the most press attention, but two phenomenons are pushing scarcity of specialized IT workers into the stratosphere: computer and IT jobs across all industries are projected to grow 12% from 2018 to 2028, and healthcare is projected to add 3.5 million jobs during the period, about one-third of all new
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AdvaMed Launches Center for Digital Health to Advance Data-Driven Healthcare
- AdvaMed launches Center for Digital Health, an advocacy platform to drive data-driven healthcare- The Center for Digital Health includes a wide range of medical and digital technology companies that are leveraging health care data and technology innovation to enable new insights, support health and wellness, improve patient interventions and outcomes and enhance the quality and efficiency of healthcare delivery.The Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed) today announced the launch of
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ECG Management Consultants Joins Siemens Healthineers As Stand-Alone Unit
- ECG Management Consultants joins Siemens Healthineers and will operate as a stand-alone unit as part of the global Enterprise Services business of Siemens Healthineers.
- ECG, as a separate consulting business, will continue to focus on strategic, financial, operational, and information technology services and operate independently of the medical technology business of Siemens Healthineers.
- As part of the agreement, Siemens Healthineers will acquire a majority stake in ECG
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National Health IT Week: Embracing Non-Clinical Data Insights for Improved Patient Care
There’s a crispness in the air that marks fall’s arrival. But autumn’s appearance isn’t the only thing on calendars across the U.S. this week: September 23-27 marks National Health IT Week. The 2019 theme focuses on supporting healthy communities, and what better way to support communities than to learn more about the people in them?
Decision-makers who analyze healthcare data have a habit of focusing on numbers, pouring over pages of claims and diagnostic codes. Yet disease diagnoses are often
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