The Austin Blockchain Collective is teaming with Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin to develop healthcare blockchain applications for better patient outcomes.
The two...
The Department of Veterans Affairs has repeatedly tried and failed to fix IT system problems with its Family Caregiver Program, according to a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO)...
Health insurance legacy IT infrastructure was designed for transactions centered around claims, not for a consumer-engaged environment, observed Beth O’Rorke, chief information officer and...
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...
James Byrne, acting deputy secretary at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), told a Senate panel that the aging health IT infrastructure at VA facilities might complicate implementation of his...
Ochsner LSU Health Monroe in northeast Louisiana has launched a telehealth ICU (teleICU) program that uses two-way audiovisual communications technology to connect its ICU patients with medical...
Savannah, GA-based St. Joseph's/Candler is rolling out a patient navigation system to help patients and visitors find their way around its new 83,600 square-foot Pooler medical campus.
The Pooler...
Data tracking has become increasingly important with the explosion of information in the healthcare environment.
The benefits of tracking data are synchronizing large data sets generated by...
Lawmakers blasted Department of Defense (DoD) officials over delays in the deployment and integration of its new electronic health record (EHR) system, during a May 1 hearing of the House...
AdventHealth Gordon and AdventHealth Murray in northern Georgia have partnered with Chattanooga, TN-based Erlanger Health System to provide telestroke services to their patients.
The new partnership...
Health IT interoperability obstacles continue to plague federal government efforts to share health data about Native American veterans, concluded a recent Government Accountability Office...
HHS has issued three documents for public comment that are designed to support network-to-network health data exchange nationwide.
The three documents are second drafts of the Trusted Exchange...
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...
The American Medical Association (AMA) and student-run biotech incubator Sling Health are expanding their joint efforts to include physicians in health IT innovation to improve clinical workflows...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has not implemented four high-priority health IT recommendations by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), according to a recent report by the...
The U.S. Air Force (USAF) is updating the health IT infrastructure at its military treatment facilities to prepare for MHS GENESIS EHR system implementation because of problems with a pilot deployment...
Vendors are developing and selling proprietary IT products and services that do not interoperate, creating a significant healthcare interoperability problem, testified LifePoint Health Chief Medical...
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 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...
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...