Mike Miliard
Its new survey of inpatient purchasing finds Epic as the only vendor to increase its net market share in 2023 – gaining 153 new hospital clients and now covering more than half of acute care multispecialty beds nationwide.
Sarah Hatchett, who had been serving as interim chief information officer since August 2023, will take on the role full time.
As cyberattacks increase in scope and intensity, the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange is asking the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and other federal agencies to do more to help health systems maintain operational continuity.
New LEAP in Health IT money from ONC is meant to find and fund innovative new approaches to evaluating EHR data quality for machine learning models and driving IT adoption by behavioral health providers.
Trained using more than 100,000 echocardiograms from atrial fibrillation cases, the algorithm has shown its ability to predict which patients could develop irregular heart rhythms within 90 days.
In a letter to the Office for Civil Rights, the Medical Group Management Association asked HHS to ensure its provider members will be held blameless and that UnitedHealth and Change Healthcare will take on the administrative work of alerting customers.
The goal is to help ensure patient safety in telemedicine, and to help healthcare organizations standardize approaches to virtual care with an eye toward quality improvement and patient outcomes that are "consistent with traditional settings."
The aim is to help electronic health record clients migrate to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, reducing cyber risk while boosting performance, the company says.
The release of CA v2.0, updated to require support for API exchange using the HL7 spec, allows TEFCA to "keep pace with the advanced, secure data services approaches" employed by the larger tech industry, says National Coordinator Micky Tripathi.
As health systems prioritize population health management, disparate factors such as patient engagement, social determinants of health and AI-enabled decision support all have roles to play, says Brian Dixon, research scientist at Regenstrief Institute.