Healthcare interoperability is growing in importance as the amount of heath data proliferates and the free flow of data between patients, providers, and payers becomes essential for better healthcare.
This was one take away for Forrester analysts who attended the recent Healthcare Information and Management System Society’s (HIMSS)...
Healthcare data analytics is having the biggest impact on the effectiveness and efficiency of clinical workflows, according to an annual survey of 185 healthcare leaders by HealthCare Executive Group and Change Healthcare.
Around 30 percent of respondents to the Ninth Annual Industry Pulse Survey said that healthcare data analytics...
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) is investing in a cloud-based healthcare operating system (hcOS) to improve healthcare interoperability and break down data silos.
The downloadable operating system is designed to make it easy for app developers to build software solutions that access clinical data and clinical...
Eight HHS operating divisions were tested for web application and network security and found wanting, according to a recently released OIG report.
The HHS divisions came up short in configuration management, access control, data input controls, and software patching.
To identify the vulnerabilities, OIG contracted with Defense Point Security to...
Scripps Health has turned to unified communications provider Avaya to bring its diverse systems into a comprehensive health IT integration platform.
Scripps Health chose the Avaya IX Attendant Solution for Healthcare to give its personnel the ability to manage, locate, and communicate with staff and departments, patient rooms, and codes from a...
The AT&T Foundry has teamed with Nihon Kohden to retrofit Nihon’s LifeScope G3 telemeter worn by hospital patients to monitor their vital signs so that the device can toggle between Wi-Fi and cellular wireless networking connectivity.
This toggle capability contained in a “travel pack” enables patients to walk around...
In the Trump administration’s FY 2020 budget request, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is proposing to cut ONC’s budget by 28 percent, despite its heavy workload in implementing health IT interoperability and other provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act (Cures Act).
In a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM)...
The HL7 standards, key for healthcare interoperability, could open up healthcare infrastructure to cyberattacks, warned researchers at the University of California (UC) system.
The HL7 standards provide a widely used framework for the exchange, integration, sharing, and retrieval of electronic health information.
“These standards...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a three-year, nearly $1 million grant to University of Massachusetts and Elizabethtown College researchers to develop a secure health IT infrastructure for translational research.
The researchers will use software-defined infrastructure (SDI), blockchain, secure domain system, and other advanced...
Dutch health technology behemoth Philips has agreed to buy U.S.-based Carestream Health’s medical imaging IT unit for an undisclosed consideration.
Carestream’s unit provides medical imaging IT solutions to multisite hospitals, radiology services providers, imaging centers, and specialty clinics.
“This acquisition will enhance...
Healthcare organizations in the early phase of EHR adoption are focused primarily on health IT infrastructure, such as interoperability and data security, according to a roundtable of 31 high-level healthcare executives.
The roundtable was sponsored by LexisNexis Risk Solutions in collaboration with the College of Healthcare Information Management...
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 a “turning point” for healthcare interoperability, judged Intermountain Healthcare Chief Medical Informatics Officer (CMIO) Stan...
Failure would likely result from a hasty EHR integration effort, warned Kevin Tabb, president and CEO of Beth Israel (BI) Lahey Health, which was recently formed from the merger of Beth Israel Deaconess and Lahey Health.
The merged organization has a “multitude” of different EHR systems. There is a homegrown system at the Longwood...
Gustave Roussy Insitut, a Paris-based cancer center, has formed a partnership with Embleema, a New York-based healthcare blockchain network, to develop blockchain health data sharing applications for oncology clinical research and development.
The partnership will enable the integration of health data and consolidation onto a data...
Hospitals are at high risk for cyberattacks, judged Moody’s Investors Service in a new report.
Other sectors that are at high risk for cyberattacks include banks, securities firms, and financial market infrastructures. Together, these four sectors have $11.7 trillion in rated debt outstanding, according to Moody’s.
The four...
Aligning health IT with business goals was identified as a top challenge for healthcare and life sciences CIOs, according to the 2019 CIO Survey Report by Grant Thornton and the Technology Business Management Council.
Other top healthcare CIO challenges included conflicting priorities among stakeholders, lack of time for strategic thinking,...
Texas is looking to deploy the Patient Unified Lookup System for Emergencies (PULSE) platform, which was developed by the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health IT to provide secure health data exchange during an emergency.
During Feb. 20 testimony before the Texas House Public Health Committee, George Gooch, CEO of the public-private...
Researchers at University of California San Francisco (UCSF) have developed a proof-of-concept method for using blockchain to safeguard data integrity of clinical trials.
Blockchain creates an audit trail that makes it easy to detect tampering with results, such as making the treatment look more effective than it is or diminishing the...
Rep. Will Hurd (R-TX) said the $10 billion price tag and the 10-year timeline for implementation of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ EHR modernization program are “outrageous,” during a Feb. 26 hearing of the House Appropriations Committee’s Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies...
The Illinois Medical District and IGNITE CITIES, a tech consulting firm specializing in smart cities, have launched the first smart medical district in the United States designed to improve patient care through upgrading IT infrastructure and transportation.
The smart medical district is located in Chicago’s West Side, where more than 40...
