National Health IT Week kicks off next week, and we can’t think of a better way to look forward to it than by catching up on all the latest health IT news – and all the ways to find it. In honor of the 10th anniversary of National Health IT Week Oct. 5-9, we’re announcing our […]
While the ICD-10 implementation deadline has changed a few times, the ICD-10 code itself is set - and quite specific. If you go to the hospital because of, say, a sea lion bite, a fall into a prison swimming pool or a nasty library injury, you're covered in coding terms, as there's a code for […]
Though many health system stakeholders agree that understanding healthcare analytics can help organizations improve quality of care and reduce costs, they are still defining their enterprise-level big data analytics strategies and investments, according to a new Deloitte survey. The 2015 U.S. Hospital and Health System Analytics Survey, which targeted health systems with revenue of $500 million […]
A year ago this month, Apple launched (after a few setbacks) its much anticipated HealthKit, a software development platform for building apps that collect and share personal health and fitness information across other apps via wearable or mobile devices, like an iPhone or Apple Watch. So far, it seems hospital IT groups have been putting the […]
Epic Systems' users, employees and consultants tuned in for the classic television-themed Epic Users Group Meeting (UGM) 2015 at Epic headquarters in Verona, Wis., Aug. 31 - Sept. 3, and ever-cognizant to the event's intentionally over-the-top theme, Epic UGM Tweeters had a lot to say about what they saw, heard, ate, learned - and witnessed CEO […]
Today Salesforce introduced Health Cloud, its first industry product built specifically for healthcare. Salesforce Health Cloud is a cloud-based patient relationship management solution that enables providers to gain a complete view of the patient with integrated data from electronic medical records (EMRs), wearables and more; make smarter care decisions; engage with patients across their caregiver […]
A few weeks ago, we released our eBook on the Top 50 Health IT Influencers on Twitter, a list of top-notch individuals talking about health IT on the regular. To comprise our list, we used a tool from SEO Moz called Followerwonk, which ranks an individual’s Social Authority, placing importance on how often a person is receiving […]
The Oct. 1 ICD-10 deadline is less than two months away, which means hospitals should be in the homestretch for implementing ICD-10 codes. With that in mind, the American Hospital Association (AHA) released a checklist this week that hospitals should follow to ensure a successful transition. The AHA is encouraging hospital leaders to share the […]
For community hospitals looking to upgrade or migrate to new EMR solutions, Epic Systems tops the list in mind share, says the Community Hospital Quick EHR Report 2015 from Peer60. And, according to the report, nearly 20% of community hospitals are actively looking to change their EHR vendor. While Epic leads mind share at 43%, […]
A few weeks ago, we introduced you to our list of the Top 50 Healthcare IT Influencers on Twitter, a compilation of the sharpest, most in-the-know healthcare IT experts Tweeting about the industry. These 50 individuals are hospital CIOs, health IT consultants, physicians, technology experts and healthcare professionals, authors, journalists and bloggers who will teach you about health IT community […]
From portable pacemakers to 3-D printers that are revolutionizing a variety of surgeries, medical innovations from the partnership of doctors and electrical engineers have long impacted the health care industry. They're working together on mechatronics engineering (mechanics + electronics = mechatronics), a rapidly developing field of science and technology that combines precision engineering, electronic control […]
So-called software glitches often take the blame when a major technology failure occurs. That was the case last Wednesday as the New York Stock Exchange halted trading for nearly four hours because of an “internal technical issue.” The shutdown came on the heels of “network connectivity issues” that grounded United Airlines flights earlier in the […]