Article Archive for February 2020
Health Tech’s Future is Bright
Healthcare technology refers to any IT tools or software designed to boost hospital and administrative productivity. It can give new insights into medicines and treatments, or improve the overall quality of care provided. Today’s healthcare is …
Microsoft’s Standing on the Regulatory Changes
Up until this point, tech companies have stayed largely on the sidelines of the debate regarding open access to medical data. Things are changing. This interesting topic came to us from CNBC in their article, …
Mining Data with Natural Language Processing
Data extracted from Amazon Comprehend Medical, a software that mines patient health records, now has the potential to be linked to select medical ontologies. Becker’s Hospital Review brought this interesting topic to our attention in their article, …
Decreasing Clinician Burden Through Compliance
The Health and Human Services (HHS) recently released the final version of its plan to decrease clinician burden through incremental changes to push electronic health records (EHRs) toward interoperability. Healthcare DIVE brought this topic to us …
Geographical Influence on Physician Burnout
With all the talk about physician burnout, it is somewhat surprising to discover that the rates of burnout for physicians in rural and small towns is much lower than the national average and certainly lower …
EHRs Utilized to Screen for Coronavirus
Measures are being taken in some hospitals to screen for the novel coronavirus in their electronic health record (EHR) systems. This comes after continued increases in confirmed cases within the United States. This news came to us …
Falling Short of the Potential
Even after all the work and financial investment it took to install and integrate electronic health records (EHRs) into health care practices and systems, most healthcare organizations are not leveraging the full potential of their …
Digital Health 2.0
Digital innovations continue to change the world as we know it. Consumers use portable devices to access their medical information, monitor their vital signs, do their banking, make purchases, and carry out a wide range …
Health Data Access
With the daily news sharing stories of data breaches and cyber attacks, everyone is worried about their personal information being sold, stolen or otherwise abused. Health data seems to be the target of more nefarious …
Government HIT Committee Finalizes Report
The Health Information Technology Advisory Committee (HITAC) recently finalized its list of 31 issues to tackle over the next two years and they include price transparency and third-party access to health data. Modern Healthcare brought this …
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