The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has awarded close to $2 million to two organizations in order to fund their work in improving healthcare interoperability.
The grants are being made under the Leading Edge Acceleration Projects in Health Information Technology (LEAP in Health IT) program, which is...
Wireless networking infrastructure continues to be a challenge for hospitals and health systems, a recent survey by Spok found.
Almost half of 450 healthcare professionals from U.S. hospitals and health systems cited Wi-Fi coverage as a problem area, while 39 percent cited cellular coverage as a challenge.
Of the 450 respondents, 38 percent were...
Dartmouth-Hitchcock (D-H) has set up a high-tech hub to provide advanced IT infrastructure to run its Tele-Intensive Care Unit (TeleICU) and TeleEmergency services for rural hospitals in New England.
Kevin M. Curtis, medical director of Connected Care/Center for Telehealth at D-H, told HITInfrastructure that his health system has eight telehealth...
The University of California San Francisco (UCSF) is piloting CommonHealth, an open-source, non-profit service designed to enable people to securely collect their electronic health record (EHR) data using their smartphone and share their data with health apps and approved partners.
CommonHealth will use data interoperability standards, including...
SAP unveiled this week its healthcare-focused accelerator program at SAP.iO Foundry New York with the selection of seven health IT startups.
SAP.iO will provide the startups access to SAP technology and application programming interfaces (APIs), mentorships, and opportunities to collaborate with SAP customers.
The SAP.iO Foundry New York cohort...
Hospital acquisitions help improve healthcare IT infrastructure needed for data-driven, value-based care by increasing the scale at which the combined systems operate and invest, concluded a report by Charles River Associates sponsored by the American Hospital Association (AHA).
The report provides three reasons why scale matters for...
The Center for Medical Interoperability (C4MI) has launched an industry-wide program to verify medical device interoperability.
The program, called C4MI Verified, is designed to accelerate the availability of connected medical devices and other technologies in the healthcare industry.
Devices entering the center testing lab will face a series of...
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has inked a cooperative agreement with The Sequoia Project to support nationwide healthcare interoperability.
The Sequoia Project will serve as the Recognized Coordinating Entity (RCE) to develop, update, implement, and maintain the Common Agreement and QHIN Technical...
A hacker with low skill level could gain control of connected cardiology devices made by Change Healthcare, warned an ICS-CERT advisory.
“Insecure file permissions in the default installation may allow an attacker with local system access to execute unauthorized arbitrary code,” the advisory explained.
The vulnerability affects the...
The healthcare IT network harbors the most prominent vulnerabilities in healthcare organizations, judged 232 healthcare security decision makers surveyed by Vanson Bourne on behalf of security firm Irdeto.
Half of respondents cited the IT network as the place where the most prominent vulnerabilities reside, followed by mobile devices and...
As organizations ponder complying with HHS proposed interoperability rules, they should consider moving beyond regulatory requirements to realize greater healthcare interoperability, advised a new Deloitte Insights article.
“Implementing a strategic interoperability plan can position health plans and health systems to gain insights and...
Cleveland-based University Hospitals (UH) has been awarded a $1 million grant from the Ohio Opioid Technology Challenge to develop an app that tracks a patient’s opioid use after leaving the hospital.
The app, UH Care Continues, uses algorithms to prompt the discharge planning and inpatient care coordination teams to evaluate patient pain...
Healthcare is one of the leading industries considering VMwareCloud on AWS, according to a survey of 1,156 IT and business professionals across industries by cloud managed service provider Faction.
Other leading industries include tech services, financial services, and education, the survey found.
Across industries, 29 percent of respondents plan...
The Veterans Health Administration’s (VHA) poor health information management of medical record scanning has produced a paper record backlog of 600,000 documents, or a stack of paper more than five miles high, concluded a recent audit by the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) Office of Inspector General (OIG).
To address the...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a Class 1 recall (most serious) for a faulty component of the Edwards SAPIEN 3 transcatheter heart valve system, following reports of 17 injuries and one death.
Edwards Lifesciences received reports that the delivery component of the heart valve system experienced burst balloons during implantation,...
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) teamed with chief information officers and chief medical officers from other pediatric healthcare organizations to simplify the adolescent proxy process using the MyCHOP portal and smartphone app.
Kisha Hortman Hawthorne, chief information officer at the hospital, told an August 22 panel at the...
There are four main hurdles regarding health data interoperability, Patrick Getzen, senior vice president and chief data and analytics officer at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC), told an August 21 panel at the HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology's Third Interoperability Forum being held...
Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC) is using the AWS cloud platform with its existing Cerner electronic health record (EHR) to give it the computing power to perform advanced data science research, explained William Feaster, M.D., CHOC’s chief health information officer.CHI Franciscan has partnered with GE Healthcare and Microsoft Azure to implement a clinical control center the brings together electronic health records, transfer center software, staffing software, and other healthcare IT systems.
The 1,300-bed health system operates nine facilities over a large geographic area in Washington. It sees...
Ohio State University’s (OSU) Wexner Medical Center is piloting a project to increase health data exchange between hospitals and emergency medical services, the Columbus-Dispatch reported August 19.
Wexner is working with two local fire departments, the Columbus Division of Fire and the Grandview Heights Fire Department, to give...
