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St. Marianna University School of Medicine in Japan used a "go slow, but go steady" strategy to make small, incremental changes to overcome resistance to moving from paper to digital systems, says Director Shinji Yamamoto.

As the most recent health IT vendor to partner with a rideshare company, Cerner will embed access to Uber's non-emergency transport within the EHR workflow.

Dr. Adrian Zai, director of research at Partners HealthCare, says providers need to align resources and optimize technology around workflows, not the other way around.

Deep Dive: Overwork has become an epidemic among physicians and nurses. Fixing the problem demands new strategies to restore joy to medicine.

A consortium-led project aims to take the concept of robotic colleagues for healthcare professionals to the next level, helping to address the emerging elderly care crisis in Europe created by staff shortages and an ageing population.

Its care innovations have helped nurses spend 3,000 more hours at the bedside – leading to a 58% improvement in care efficiency and a 19% reduction in HAIs.

The ACI platform, which the companies say can ease administrative burden by streamlining documentation, has been rolled out to some customers in beta and is planned to launch in early 2020 across several specialties.

Many health systems are living with feet in both worlds, but diverse incentives will eventually force a reckoning, says Health Catalyst's Holly Rimmasch.