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Major health tech bodies have collaborated on a global campaign to showcase the talents of 100 of the UK’s most innovative and impactful digital health innovators. The First 100 list features UK companies with a proven track record of benefiting the lives of healthcare professionals and patients in the NHS and private health sector. They include companies […]
The UK Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB) has recently launched the Standards Partnership Scheme, a targeted programme to recognise and support vendors across the UK. It will specifically focus on vendors that are implementing professionally endorsed record standards to improve and integrate care through interoperability. The venture is supported by NHS and social care system […]
As we near the end of a demanding and tumultuous 2020, and on behalf of all Cerner associates, I want to express appreciation for Cerner’s clients and all the frontline health workers around the world who have sacrificed so much in the fight against COVID-19. In a year defined by what will likely be the […]
Amazon Web Services announced on Tuesday the launch of HealthLake, a cloud storage and analysis service available to healthcare and life sciences organizations. According to the company, the service allows organizations to store, tag, index, standardize, query and apply machine learning to analyze data in the cloud, as well as automatically structuring information into […]
Children have specific and unique medical needs – and software supporting their care should be tailored to help address those needs. So the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has published a new informational resource aimed at shaping the specifications of technology products intended for pediatric use. “There are critical functionalities, data elements, […]
Arcadia, which specializes in technologies focused on population health management and value-based care, announced Thursday that it has acquired selected assets of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative. WHY IT MATTERS The acquisition includes technology assets and some customer accounts of MAeHC, a nonprofit services firm that helps healthcare providers with technology and analytics to manage the […]
At Woman’s Hospital in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, clinicians were moving in many directions, balancing multiple alarms with competing priorities. THE PROBLEM The provider organization had built a new facility and at the time its call center was using a product that no longer met the organization’s needs. That vendor was not interested in going in […]
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has closed off access to its Blue Button 2.0 production environment after a third-party app developer alerted the agency to a bug in its code base that could lead to exposure of some patients’ protected health information. WHY IT MATTERS In a blog post that details the root […]
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has proposed new rules that will have a profound effect on how healthcare providers share patient data. The Office for the National Coordinator of Health IT and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are each reviewing industry comments on their proposed rules. HHS clearly intends to […]
Interoperability in health IT is tricky, to say the least. It requires complex technologies, robust standards and solid strategies. The government and the industry are working on interoperability solutions. On the industry front, healthcare organizations are focused on using technology to improve interoperability of existing services and capabilities, according to a new Proskauer survey of […]