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UCI Health Implements Provider Information Management Platform

October 18, 2019 - California-based UCI Health has implemented a healthcare provider information management platform to keep its provider community informed about patient care. UCI Health opted to go with Phynd Technologies for its platform, which provides a single, digitized, and searchable system containing providers and their subspecialties, locations, and health...

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D-H’s High-Tech Hub Provides Advanced IT for Its Telehealth Services

by Fred Donovan

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...

CHOC Combines AWS Cloud Computing with Cerner EHR for Data Science

by Fred Donovan

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...

CHI Franciscan Unveils Clinical Control Center to Unify Healthcare IT

by Fred Donovan

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...

St. Luke’s Develops AI-Powered X-Ray System to Detect Collapsed Lung

by Fred Donovan

St. Luke's University Health Network radiologist Karl Yaeger, MD, and his colleagues have developed the industry’s first x-ray system with an embedded AI algorithm to quickly detect a...

Oak Ridge Probed Health IT Infrastructure to Solve VA Problem

by Fred Donovan

Oak Ridge National Laboratory took a look at the underlying health IT infrastructure when the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) was having trouble with thousands of automatic cancellations of...

Researchers Modify Flash-based SSD to Thwart Ransomware Attacks

by Fred Donovan

Researchers from the University of Illinois have modified a flash-based solid-state drive (SSD) to fight ransomware attacks that plague healthcare organizations and other industries. When a file is...

Middlesex Health IT Team Grappled with Frustrated First Responders

by Fred Donovan

CAMBRIDGE—Middlesex Health in Middletown, CT, gets 10,000 emergency calls per year, but the first responders were getting frustrated by the expensive but unreliable ruggedized laptops they were...

Organizations Are More Comfortable Putting PHI in Healthcare Cloud

by Fred Donovan

Healthcare organizations are becoming more comfortable putting sensitive PHI in the cloud, observed Mike Jude, digital health research manager at Frost & Sullivan. “For many cloud service...

AdventHealth Team Successfully Tests Remote Robotic Surgery

by Fred Donovan

Roger Smith, PhD, and his team at Florida-based AdventHealth Nicholson Center recently conducted a successful Department of Defense (DoD)-funded trial on remote robotic surgery. Smith, who is chief...

AT&T, Nihon Kohden Expand Telemeter Wireless Networking Options

by Fred Donovan

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...

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...

Aligning Health IT with Business Goals Is Top CIO Challenge

by Fred Donovan

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...

US Government Shutdown Delays OMB Review of ONC Health IT Rule

by Fred Donovan

The US government shutdown, which is in its fourth week, is likely to further delay an ONC health IT rule being reviewed by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), observed AMIA Vice President...

New Service Could Help Hospitals with Wireless Networking Strain

by Fred Donovan

With all the connected devices in healthcare environment, wireless networking capacity has become a priority for IT teams in hospitals. One solution being proposed by the CBRS Alliance is to use...

Major Tech Firms Partner to Boost Healthcare IT Interoperability

by Fred Donovan

Major tech companies, like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft, are increasingly partnering with health IT vendors to remove barriers to healthcare IT interoperability. In a letter released recently by ITI,...

FHIR May Not Help Healthcare Orgs Achieve Semantic Interoperability

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Healthcare organizations participating in the value-based care environment are in need of strong, secure data pipelines that can help them communicate across disparate health systems to coordinate and...

Cloud-based Healthcare App Development Supports Infrastructure Growth

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

The evolution of healthcare IT still poses challenges for organizations going through digital transformations. As applications and continue to develop, organizations are looking to new methods and...

APIs Are the “Missing Piece” for Healthcare App Interoperability  

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Healthcare app interoperability is not a new challenge for healthcare organizations. Over the past several years organizations have had trouble connecting their health IT tools to their EHRs. The...

Ensuring Healthcare Networks Can Keep Key Data in the Fast Lane

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Wireless and cellular technologies are advancing, and healthcare networks need to keep up in order to support digital tools and connected medical devices. Applying network upgrades to existing systems...

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