A full 85 percent of organizations who have retired legacy IT systems and opted for health data archiving report positive financial impacts, according to KLAS Research.
As a result, the data-archiving vendor market is expanding as new vendors enter the market, and existing vendors broaden their expertise and offerings.
In a new report, KLAS...
CAMBRIDGE—Healthcare blockchain currently has three good use cases — physician credentialing, data integrity, and data sharing consent — observed Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) CIO John Halamka in a keynote address at the MIT Sloan Healthcare and Bioinnovations Conference held here Feb. 22.
“Every year we have...
CAMBRIDGE—The biggest question when it come to digital health technology is not getting “new, cool stuff” into the hospital, but how can it fit seamlessly into the existing clinical workflow, observed Jaydeo Kinikar, head of marketing and business development at Philips Connected Care Sensing.
Kinikar told a panel here Friday at...
The Department of Defense (DoD) is restructuring its medical treatment facilities (MTFs), including transferring MTF administration and management from the military departments to the Defense Health Agency (DHA), according to a new GAO report.
The changes are required by section 702 of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year...
Upgrading health IT infrastructure was cited as among the top challenges facing healthcare executives in 2019.
On behalf of SAP, Porter Research polled 100 healthcare CEOs, CFOs, and CIOs from acute care hospitals and integrated delivery networks with more than 300 beds about the top challenges facing health systems this year.
Asked to...
Through its Connected Care model, Intel is using its purchasing power to accelerate health IT interoperability to benefit employees, their families, and the communities where they live and work.
Intel offers its Connected Care health plans in five areas where it has a large employee population: Rio Rancho, New Mexico; Hillsboro, Oregon; Chandler,...
More than three-quarters of IT and tech leaders judged their healthcare interoperability efforts as excellent or good, but fewer than half of clinicians had the same opinion.
Around one-third of respondents to a survey conducted by HIMSS media for Hyland Healthcare reported the highest level of healthcare interoperability, with two or more systems...
The precision medical imaging market is forecast by Frost & Sullivan to grow from $120 million in 2017 to over $8 billion by 2027.
Technology advances such as clinical decision support software, sensors, 3D printing, deep learning, and artificial intelligence (AI) will be applied to medical imaging, predicted Frost &...
Timed to coincide with the release of a new report by the Healthcare Leadership Council (HLC) and Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC), a broad-based panel of public and private sector representatives at HIMSS on Thursday tackled the thorny issue of healthcare interoperability.
The panel was moderated by Tom Daschle, BPC cofounder and former Senate...
The healthcare industry is increasingly adopting hybrid cloud models, according to a survey of more than 2,300 IT decision makers by VansonBourne on behalf of cloud provider Nutanix.
Hybrid cloud deployment by healthcare providers is expected to jump from 19 percent penetration to 37 percent in two years, respondents forecast.
While 88...
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 (EHI) using smartphones and other mobile devices.
In a wide-ranging notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) released Feb. 11, ONC has laid out a series...
Close to two-thirds of healthcare business leaders and investors said digital health is a strategic priority for them, with 63 percent planning to invest more in the future.
A full 83 percent of 441 respondents to a global survey by law firm Simmons & Simmons said that collaborations, such as consortiums and corporate joint ventures, are...
Aging healthcare IT infrastructure at VA facilities requires more investment in preparation for deployment of new VA EHR platform, VA General Counsel and Acting Deputy Secretary James Byrne told a Senate panel on Tuesday.
After reviewing the final Current State of Review in preparation for deployment of the Cerner EHR platform, the VA determined...
Many virtual care solution do not integrate with electronic health records (EHR), according to a survey of healthcare organizations by virtual care software provider Zipnosis.
In fact, close to half of respondents admitted that their virtual care software did not integrate with their EHRs. Only 21.4 percent saw that as a challenge to their...
Digital health innovators will need to start delivering tangible results, not just hype, for consumers this year, judged the HIMSS 2019 Healthcare Trends Report.
The report predicted that digital health innovations that will start having more real-world applications include artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, virtual...
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 Exhibition. Healthcare interoperability will be on the minds of many attendees.
There will be over 1,300 vendors in attendance and more than 300...
Poor input-output (I/O) performance could have a negative effect on healthcare big data analytics, warned Condusiv Technologies CEO James D’Arezzo.
SQL databases in particular are a factor in poor I/O performance. SQL databases generate the most storage I/O traffic.
Nearly one-third of the IT pros responsible for I/O performance said...
Healthcare’s increasing dependence on interconnected health IT infrastructure, such as electronic health records and connected medical devices, could put sensitive patient data at risk, warned HHS in its quadrennial National Health Security Strategy released this month.
As healthcare delivery systems become more connected, they also become...
Policies and standards should be developed to ensure artificial intelligence is safely incorporated into clinical decision support (CDS) systems, recommended a white paper from the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy.
The white paper grew out of a panel of experts that the center convened to examine AI-enabled CDS software and the current policy...
The Healthcare IT segment accounted for about one-half of the healthcare and pharmaceutical IT industry’s aggregate volume of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) last year, according to a new report by Berkery Noyes Investment Bankers.
Strategic acquirers, i.e., those in the same industry, accounted for 75 percent of Healthcare IT...
