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By Kat Jercich | 10:38 am | December 04, 2020
The agency aims to issue a unified industry-wide specification for representing addresses by the end of 2021.
By Mike Miliard | 10:44 am | December 03, 2020
The New York health system has made AI and automation central to its mission, embedding algorithms into a wide array of workflows to target dozens of improvement initiatives.
By Kat Jercich | 11:47 am | December 02, 2020
TechCrunch reports that the EHR and practice management vendor left sensitive patient information unencrypted and vulnerable to exposure on a Microsoft Azure-hosted server.
By Bill Siwicki | 12:22 pm | December 01, 2020
The Cerner technology has helped decrease patient transfers to other locations and reduce average transfer time. It also helps track COVID-19 metrics for individual facilities across the health system.
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By Sapphire HMS | HIMSS TV | 06:52 pm | November 30, 2020
SapphireHMS CIO Omar Shraim explains the importance of digital transformation and how SapphireHMS endeavors to improve patient care.
By Dean Koh | 10:01 pm | November 29, 2020
The revalidation was done over three days, along with the successful EMRAM Stage 6 revalidation of the co-located Jurong Community Hospital.  
By Mike Miliard | 05:50 pm | November 25, 2020
Building off its Hospital Without Walls initiative, it's offering new flexibilities around telehealth and remote patient monitoring as the country enters "a new level of crisis response," said CMS Administrator Seema Verma.
By HIMSS TV | 07:31 am | November 25, 2020
David Berridge, deputy chief medical officer at The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, says the path forward requires a universal standard for more automation and better monitoring of product quality.
By Kat Jercich | 02:00 pm | November 24, 2020
Remote patient monitoring ecosystems should not be treated in the same way as traditional endpoints, say cybersecurity experts.
By HIMSS TV | 08:39 am | November 24, 2020
Abdulaziz Alkhlaif, CIO of Dr. Abdul Rahman Al-Mishari Hospital, discusses data transformation, artificial intelligence and the next generation of patient portals in Saudi Arabia.