eClinicalWorks Announces $25 Million Investment in Patient Engagement
eClinicalWorks, a Westborough, Mass.-based EHR vendor, has announced it's launching a patient engagement-focused initiative on the back of a $25 million investment in the area over the next 12 months....
View ArticleTop 10 Tech Trends: Keeping Pace with Innovations
New technology innovations have clearly captured the imaginations of clinicians and patients alike, and provider organizations will see big demands on bandwidth, which will put pressure on provider...
View ArticleTop 10 Tech Trends: Pushing the Patient into the Picture
In 2012, Leonard Kish, a health IT strategist, made a bold proclamation about a new “blockbuster drug of the century.” The drug Kish was referring to can’t be found in stores or in a scientific...
View ArticleSurvey: Three-Fourths of Providers Believe Mobility is Positively Affecting...
Healthcare providers are making progress in adopting health IT tools within their practices, as mobility continues to impact the day-to-day delivery of patient care and healthcare practice management,...
View ArticleSurvey: Doctors Think Virtual Assistants will Soon Drastically Change...
Eighty percent of U.S. doctors who responded to a recent survey from Burlington, Mass.-based Nuance Communications believe that within five years, virtual assistants will drastically change how they...
View ArticleThe Road to Technology-Enabled Quality Care
Two nurse leaders from Oakland, Calif.-based integrated healthcare provider Kaiser Permanente revealed real-world lessons learned for transforming care to improve quality, safety and efficiency in the...
View ArticleA Platform for Healthcare Self-Service
In a HIMSS seminar, Miami Children’s Hospital CIO Edward Martinez describes automating patient engagement processes to create a holistic experience from pre-visit to follow-up, with a new emphasis on...
View ArticleThe Convergence of mHealth and Accountable Care
G. Daniel Martich, M.D., chief medical information officer at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), says one of the ways to accountable care is through the device in your pocket. In this...
View ArticleHIMSS Keynoter Dr. Eric Topol: On the Democratization of Medicine
"Show Me the Data!" says the author of "The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How The Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care."
View ArticleA Breath of Fresh Air at HIMSS
At events like HIMSS, Mac McMillan, co-founder and CEO of the consulting firm CynergisTek, and chair of the HIMSS Privacy & Security Policy Task Force, can truly be a breath of fresh air. While a...
View ArticleGovernment Agencies Join Forces to Develop Apps From Text Message Database
As part of the Department of Health and Human Service (HHS) digital services strategy, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), the Office of the National Coordinator for Health...
View ArticleHHS Announces Winner of Mobile App Challenge
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently recognized the developers of an app that aims to help individuals manage their family’s health through customized prevention information for...
View ArticleHealth IT Leaders: Networks Will Have to Improve for Wireless Technologies
According to a new study from HIMSS Analytics, the analytics arm of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), healthcare leaders are increasingly concerned on how to adapt to...
View ArticlemHealth Apps: An Attempt to Simplify Data Capturing and Analysis
In part three of a four-part interview series with mobile health (mHealth) app developers, Healthcare Informatics Associate Editor Gabriel Perna speaks with Stephen Hau, CEO of Shareable Ink, a...
View ArticlePark Nicollet’s Pioneer ACO Initiative
At a morning breakout session of the HCI Executive Summit, Sam VanNorman, director of business intelligence, and Curtis A. Boehm, M.D., chief medical information officer, gave their perspectives on...
View ArticlemHealth Apps: Real-Time Patient Information for Transitions-of-Care
In this interview with Healthcare Informatics Associate Editor Gabriel Perna, Matthew Mombrea, CTO and co-founder of Cypress North, creator of Smart Sign Out, talks about how the app came to life and...
View ArticleHealth eVillages: Going the Extra Mile with Disaster Recovery
As health systems continue to prepare for disaster, one program, through the use of mobile technology, has gone leaps and bounds to make sure that patients who are still recovering are getting the...
View ArticleVerizon, Swinfen, and University of Virginia Join Forces for Global...
The Verizon Foundation, Swinfen Charitable Trust and the University of Virginia Health System have announced the expansion of an innovative telemedicine program into rural communities in India and the...
View ArticleMoving towards Transformational TeleHealth at Intermountain Healthcare
Wesley Valdes, D.O., telehealth services director at Intermountain Healthcare, sees the future of telehealth; and what he sees is that it’s all about determining what the process-related obstacles are...
View ArticleKaiser Permanente Launches Open API to Unleash Power of Digital Health
Kaiser Permanente has announced the launch of its first application programming interface program, Interchange by Kaiser Permanente. The secure program enables easy collaboration between Kaiser...
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