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Cleveland Clinic, Epic Use Remote Patient Monitoring for COVID-19

May 1, 2020 - Cleveland Clinic and Epic recently launched a remote monitoring tool to allow clinicians to quickly respond to COVID-19 patients.  The initiative will manage care in a quick and efficient manner while keeping both patients and frontline workers safe. The tool is connected to patient medical records and is available through Epic’s MyChart...


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Apple, Google Leverage Bluetooth for COVID-19 Contact Tracing

by Samantha McGrail

Google and Apple recently announced a joint effort to enable the use of Bluetooth technology to help governments and health agencies bolster COVID-19 contact tracing. Across the world, governments and...

Epic’s App Orchard Adds Clinical Decision Support App for Cancer

by Fred Donovan

Epic is adding a clinical decision support application for cancer treatment to its App Orchard marketplace for third-party apps. The new application, Flatiron Assist, provides support to oncologists...

AHIMA Warns About Privacy Risks in ONC Information Blocking Rule

by Fred Donovan

The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) along with six other healthcare organizations are warning that the proposed the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information...

ONC Ponies Up Close to $2M for Healthcare Interoperability Work

by Fred Donovan

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...

SAP Launches Accelerator Program with 7 Health IT Startups

by Fred Donovan

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...

UH Gets $1M Grant for App to Track Discharged Patients’ Opioid Use

by Fred Donovan

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...

Reports of Healthcare IT Infrastructure Vulnerabilities Surge 341%

by Fred Donovan

Reports of vulnerabilities in healthcare IT infrastructure increased 341 percent between 2017 and 2018, according to a recent study by Bugcrowd. The study, the State of Healthcare Cybersecurity 2019,...

CMS Unveils API-based Program to Expand Clinician Access to Health Data

by Fred Donovan

CMS unveiled on July 30 a new pilot program called Data at the Point of Care (DPC), which is based on an industry-standard API designed to give clinicians easier access to a patient’s health...

Kettering to Deploy Health IT System for Faster EMS, Hospital Links

by Fred Donovan

Kettering Health Network is implementing a new healthcare IT system designed to speed exchange of patient information between emergency medical service (EMS) personnel and hospitals. Kettering is...

MassChallenge Cohort Includes Cloud-based Platform for Clinicians

by Fred Donovan

MassChallenge, the Boston-based startup accelerator, has selected seven digital health startups for the first cohort of its Houston-based accelerator program, including a startup developing a...

VA Health IT Programs Receive Federal IT Innovation Awards

by Fred Donovan

Nine health IT programs implemented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) were recognized during the FedHealthIT Innovation Awards held June 12 in Washington, DC. The nine VA health...

ONC: Hospitals Provide Health Data Access, But Many Don’t Use It

by Fred Donovan

Nearly all hospitals provided patients with the ability to electronically view and download their health information in 2017, but fewer than one-quarter of their patients activated access to their...

Google Cloud-Based Healthcare API Is Now in Beta Version

by Fred Donovan

Google’s cloud-based healthcare API, designed to improve health data interoperability, is now in beta. Google said its cloud-based healthcare API offers a managed solution for storing and...

ACR Offers Free Healthcare Artificial Intelligence Platform

by Fred Donovan

The American College of Radiology (ACR) is providing a free healthcare artificial intelligence (AI) software platform to its members to encourage them to build, share, adapt, and validate AI...

ONC Proposed Rule ‘Turning Point’ for Healthcare Interoperability

by Fred Donovan

The ONC proposed rule supporting the use of the Health Level Seven’s (HL7) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standards for healthcare application programming interfaces (APIs) is...

ONC Proposes Certification Criteria for Developers of Healthcare APIs

by Fred Donovan

ONC is laying out certification criteria for app developers in developing standardized healthcare APIs to allow individuals to securely access structured and unstructured electronic health information...

Healthcare Interoperability Will Be Focus of HIMSS19 Confab

by Fred Donovan

In less than two weeks, more than 45,000 healthcare IT professionals, clinicians, executives, vendors, journalists, and others will descend on Orlando, Florida, for the 2019 HIMSS Annual Conference and...

US Gov’t Report Says Health IT Infrastructure Impedes Competition

by Fred Donovan

Health IT infrastructure often facilitates anticompetitive practices in healthcare, such as blocking clinical information exchange between providers or not supporting regional information sharing,...

Digital Transformation Promotes HIT Infrastructure Automation Adoption

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Advancing HIT infrastructure technology calls for organizations to use tools to help IT staff with mundane repetitive tasks so they can spend more time innovating and planning for the future. This...