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White House officials testified this past week that they have seen a “discernible decrease” in U.S.-targeted cyber attacks linked to Russia. As reported by The Hill, Chris Inglis, the country’s first national cyber director, told the House Homeland Security Committee that it was too soon to tell why the number of incidents had lessened. […]
The U.S. Government Accountability Office issued a report this week making recommendations for the ongoing Department of Veterans Affairs’ IT modernization program. As noted in the GAO report, the VA has been attempting to replace its aging financial and acquisitions systems with an integrated system for years. The latest deployment, in November 2020, followed […]
London North West Healthcare trust and the Hillingdon Hospitals FT have signed a ten year, £40 million deal to implement the Cerner EPR. This is in line with the North West London Integrated Care System’s draft commissioning strategy which states that the four acutes are “working towards one acute group model”. To facilitate greater interoperability, […]
Google is reportedly making inroads toward creating a patient health record tool. According to STAT’s Erin Brodwin, the company is recruiting patients to weigh in on how they want to access their own medical record data – potentially to help shape user-facing software. “Google is running a user feedback program to test features […]
Cerner and Epic each announced this past week that they’ve hit milestones in their efforts to assist with COVID-19 vaccinations. On Friday, Cerner announced that 175 clients across 11 countries had installed its Mass Vaccination solution. Epic, meanwhile, said on Thursday that it was supporting 100 community-based vaccination locations across the country, with […]
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT this week launched its new Synthetic Health Data Challenge – offering researchers a chance to explore new avenues of medical research. WHY IT MATTERS The new challenge is part of ONC’s Synthetic Health Data Generation to Accelerate Patient-Centered Outcomes Research project. Participants are invited to develop […]
At few times in recent memory has the resolve of hospitals and health systems across the U.S. – and the wherewithal of the information systems and digital data that keep them running – been put to the test quite like it was in 2020. An all-hands-on-deck push from heroic physicians and nurses to save the […]
Nurses, the backbone of healthcare, typically have to deal with serious levels of burnout – the COVID-19 pandemic has made the problem that much worse: 61% of nurses have emotional and physical fatigue, according to a new survey of 226 nurses titled “Leading in Times of Crisis” by Inspire Nurse Leaders, a nursing education organization. […]
Leeds and York partnership NHS FT has gone live with a new Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system during the COVID-19 pandemic. They will be using cloud-based CareDirector from Advanced, formerly known as CareWorks which was acquired by Advanced in November 2019. The care provider has over 3,000 staff serving Leeds and York as well as the […]
The majority of Abu Dhabi’s hospitals are now digitally connected, it has been announced. This comes just over a year on from the implementation of the UAE’s first Health Information Exchange (HIE) platform, Malaffi, where more than 60% of hospitals in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) capital are now part of the platform. Translating into […]