What You Need to Know: Medicomp Systems cancels its participation in the HIMSS 2020 conference due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak posing an unacceptable health risk for its staff. Medicomp Systems, a Washington, D.C.-based provider of clinician-driven, point-of-care solutions that fix EHRs, announced today that the company is canceling its participation in the 2020 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition, March 9–13, 2020 in Orlando to protect the health and safety of
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Philips Launches Emergency Care Informatics Suite to Power Real-Time Feedback Between Emergency Responders & Doctors
What You Need to Know: - Philips launches its new pre-hospital informatics solution for emergency responders in the U.S. market and will debut it at HIMSS 2020 next week. - Emergency medical service personnel are facing rising demands in their roles while also encountering challenging and diverse cases that require better technology to meet patient needs. - By providing real-time, bidirectional feedback between emergency responders on the scene and doctors in the hospital awaiting the
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Report: Digital Health Tools Fail to Keep Up with Patients’ Expectations
- New research report from the Center for Connected Medicine (CCM) finds that health system apps and other digital health tools for patients are not providing the best consumer patient experience. - CCM partnered with HIMSS Media to conduct a survey of 136 qualified professionals at U.S. hospitals and health systems in September 2019. - The report reveals that fewer than 1 in 3 respondents believe their organization is providing a best-in-class digital experience for patients. The result
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Looking to Keep Data Analytics in Healthcare Affordable? The Answer is the Cloud
It’s clear that 2020 Healthcare will be the year of big market disruptions. With data-rich players such as Amazon and Google entering into the healthcare market space, many traditional health care systems are reviewing their own strategic plans with an eye towards staying relevant. According to a recent analytics survey by HIMSS, 32% of respondents said that population health is a top focus moving forward, and nearly 60% are eager to make improvements in care. Most
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HIMSS Names The 6 Most Influential Women in Health IT
HIMSS names Iris P. Frye, Kim Garriott, Dr. Lucienne Ide, Eva Karp, RN-BC, Dr. Geeta Nayyar, and Tressa Springmann as the most influential women in health IT. This week, HIMSS announced its Most Influential Women in Health IT, an annual recognition celebrating women striving to harness the power of information technology to drive healthcare transformation. The award winners will be honored at HIMSS20 in Orlando next month and will join other innovators, leaders, and entrepreneurs at the
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CHIME and HIMSS Names Intermountan CIO Marc Probst CIO of the Year
- CHIME and HIMSS jointly name Intermountain VP and CIO Marc Probst the 2019 John E. Gall Jr. CIO of the Year. - The award is given annually to a CIO who has shown significant leadership and commitment to the healthcare industry during his or her career. College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and HIMSS jointly named Intermountain CIO and VP Marc Probst the 2019 John E. Gall Jr. CIO of the Year. The award is given annually to a CIO who has shown significant
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Definitive Healthcare Analytics Firm PatientFinder to Expand Data Insights
- Definitive Healthcare acquires software analytics firm for life sciences PatientFinder to expand contextual data and insights within a business’s end-to-end commercialization effort.- With this acquisition, Definitive Healthcare will add an enormous new set of data fields through an acquisition that will dramatically change the views and analytics possible for patient care.Definitive Healthcare, a provider of data, insights, and analytics on the healthcare provider market has acquired
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Top 60 Health IT/Digital Health Mergers & Acquisitions in 2019
- From Google's acquisition of Fitbit to Philips acquisition of Carestream Health's health IT business, here is a look at some of the biggest health IT/digital health mergers & acquisitions in 2019 by each quarter. Q1 M&A Activity Johnson & Johnson Acquires Auris Health for $3.4B to Expand Digital Surgery Portfolio Johnson & Johnson acquiresAuris Health, a developer of robotic technologies for $3.4 billion in cash. Auris Health is a privately-held developer of
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Despite Deployment Challenges, Healthcare Cloud Adoption Is On The Rise
- Cloud adoption in healthcare is accelerating amid deployment challenges, according to the results of a recent survey conducted by HIMSS Media in collaboration in Perficient and Red Hat. - The blinded HIMSS Technology Outlook Survey: The Outlook for Cloud finds healthcare organizations are already deploying or planning to deploy a significant share of their healthcare information technology (HIT) workload to the cloud.Cloud adoption continues to accelerate in healthcare, a fact reflected in the
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UK Children’s Hospital Becomes MEDITECH’s First NHS Customer
- Alder Hey Children’s Hospital signs with MEDITECH to harness next-generation Expanse electronic patient record (EPR) platform to advance its Digital Future Strategy. - Alder Hey is the first MEDITECH NHS customer in the UK to leverage the web-based Expanse technology for enhanced patient care and productivity.Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Europe has signed an agreement with MEDITECH to implement their web-based MEDITECH Expanse electronic patient record (EPR) for enhanced patient care and
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