Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)

Dr. Gauri Puri, chief business officer for healthcare at WNS, a global business process management company, offers a deep dive that can lead IT leaders at hospitals and health systems on the road to digital success.

How Azalea Health's telehealth and EHR tools integrate with partners' remote patient monitoring and chronic care management products to treat patients living in rural care deserts, shows Khue Tran, chief strategy officer.

As part of its annual renegotiation of the agency's EHR modernization efforts, three senators are asking the Veterans Affairs to add more opportunities to hold the vendor responsible for the quality and safety of its deployments.

Meanwhile, staff at the health system say they don't have patient orders and can't page doctors. As it works to restore clinical systems, Ascension says it's working with law enforcement and sharing threat intelligence to help prevent similar attacks.

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.

Also, Mater has added more specialties to its eConsultant service.

So says Dr. Vinay Vaidya, CMIO at Phoenix Children's, who shows how he and his team successfully changed the documentation perceptions of the hospital's clinicians – ultimately improving patient outcomes.

Nurse groups are focused on fixing what they say are untenable nurse-to-patient ratios. As legislation mandating staff ratios looms, AI and virtual care may offer a way forward.

The goal is to tackle documentation burden, giving clinicians more time with their patients and decreasing burnout, says the health system's chief clinical officer.

The two-million-square-foot Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Arthur M. Blank Hospital has been built from the ground up with leading-edge technology, everything from artificial intelligence to RTLS to robotics.