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The Mayo Clinic is set to establish its first healthcare facility in the United Kingdom, via a collaboration with Oxford University Clinic. The new clinic, set to open later this month, will deploy Cerner Millennium as its foundational electronic health record platform. WHY IT MATTERS The provider, designed to bring leading-edge technology to its preventative […]
The American Hospital Association (AHA) has launched its second annual innovation challenge to find sustainable scalable IT solutions for eliminating the social determinants that bring a community’s health down. WHY IT MATTERS The challenge, as defined by AHA, is to focus on using technology “to influence positive cultural change and improve health outcomes, while increasing […]
A recent survey of leading institutions revealed that one of the top five reasons healthcare providers (HCPs) have struggled to expand home-based monitoring as part of their population health management programs is an inability to provide technology service and support at scale. IT departments are being asked to take on roles that stretch them beyond […]
KLAS released its latest report on population health management vendors this time focusing on how well vendors did when it comes to partnering and guidance helping healthcare providers make the transition to value-based care. WHY IT MATTERS Hospitals will not achieve population health success with just technology and, KLAS noted, getting to value-based reimbursement will […]
Social determinants of health – access to housing, food, education, transportation, employment and more – are key to wellness, because they're often the barriers that interfere with unmet physical and mental health needs. "If someone is having any challenges around social determinants of health and are battling any physical or mental health need, their priority […]
The American Medical Informatics Association has voiced its support for the draft Federal Data Strategy, noting that if properly deployed it could improve information sharing and analytics for healthcare research and more. The government's data strategy proposal seeks to define principles and practices for how government agencies use and manage data. It aims to create […]
Early detection is key in preventing severe problems associated with lung cancer. In fact, when using low-dose computed tomography imaging, more than 80 percent of lung cancers have a chance to be cured when detected at an early stage, according to Chesapeake Regional Healthcare, an American College of Radiology Designated Lung Cancer Screening Center. Virginia-based […]
Digital data has become the lifeblood of healthcare, touching every facet of the delivery system and informing – sometimes transforming – the way clinical decisions are made and operational strategies are developed and deployed. And, as anyone who is a healthcare decision-maker knows all too well, there's more data than ever before – structured, unstructured, […]
Cerner is partnering with Lumeris, a health plan and managed services vendor, with a decade-long agreement, including an ownership stake where the companies will help health systems tackle inefficiencies to prepare for value-based reimbursement. An early centerpiece of the new partnership is a jointly-developed new technology, Maestro Advantage, aimed at value-based payment arrangements like Medicare […]
While the use of telemedicine systems has been expanding in recent years, especially as more payers, including the government, have begun reimbursing for telehealth services in some instances, the industry is on the verge of more widespread virtual care. But what will that ultimately look like? The next generation of tools will feature enhancements ranging […]