Wireless networking infrastructure continues to be a challenge for hospitals and health systems, a recent survey by Spok found.
Almost half of 450 healthcare professionals from U.S. hospitals and...
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...
Hospital acquisitions help improve healthcare IT infrastructure needed for data-driven, value-based care by increasing the scale at which the combined systems operate and invest, concluded a...
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...
Lack of healthcare interoperability is making it difficult for health systems to use healthcare apps, tap into unstructured data, and reduce the cost of care, according to a survey of 100 IT and...
The state of Illinois is investing $420 million in broadband infrastructure to bring telehealth, education, and economic development to rural areas, Governor JB Pritzker announced August 15.
The...
The FDA is providing funding to the Critical Path Institute (C-Path) and the Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD) for a centralized and standardized health IT infrastructure to support rare disease...
Healthcare blockchain could save the industry up to $100 billion per year in costs related to IT, operations, support functions, personnel, and health data breaches by 2025, estimated a report by BIS...
Arizona Care Network (ACN) decided to deploy healthcare blockchain technology to alleviate administrative burdens associated with processing transactions in a secure manner, explained Jami Berger,...
Government Accountability Office (GAO) auditors were unable to determine the reliability of cost estimates for health IT infrastructure, data hosting, and system sustainment for the Department of...
HHS’s Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has awarded close to $42 million in funding for health IT infrastructure improvements at federally funded health centers throughout the...
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...
Sutter Health failed to put in backup health IT infrastructure prior to a massive network outage in May 2018, despite being warned about the risk, charged Stuart James, former chief information service...
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) needs to build healthcare IT infrastructure that can utilize increasingly large amounts of health data on veterans, observed Gil Alterovitz, who was recently...
Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are developing a blockchain-based information system for medical image sharing using IBM Hyperledger.
The blockchain technology will enable a data...
Close to two-thirds of hospitals and health systems said they plan to increase investment in health IT capabilities to enhance their payer collaboration and support increasing levels of...
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...
Arizona Care Network (ACN) patients with type 2 diabetes will be able to use a healthcare blockchain network to manage their diabetes and optimize care with their physicians and families.
The Diabetes...
The health IT infrastructure needs to be fully mapped and tested to ensure it can support the new electronic health record (EHR) system the Department of Defense (DoD) is implementing, testified Jon...
While not scheduled for full implementation until 2023, the Department of Defense's (DoD) new Cerner electronic health record, MHS GENESIS, is already improving the sharing of medical images...