Health IT

Healthcare information (HIT) systems are designed to connect all the elements together for patient data, reports, medical imaging, billing, electronic medical record (EMR), hospital information system (HIS), PACS, cardiology information systems (CVIS), enterprise image systems, artificial intelligence (AI) applications, analytics, patient monitors, remote monitoring systems, inventory management, the hospital internet of things (IOT), cloud or onsite archive/storage, and cybersecurity.

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Boston's Tufts Medical Center awards Jonathan Bush for visionary leadership

Tufts Medical Center will award the Ellen M. Zane Award for Visionary Leadership to athenahealth Chairman and CEO Jonathan Bush.

Probst: Healthcare ready to transition to 'something better'

The U.S. healthcare system is “in a good position to transition to something better” than Meaningful Use, according to Marc Probst, CIO of Intermountain Healthcare.

HITPC finalizes 4 key recommendations for HIT comparison tool

The co-chairs of the Certified Technology Comparison Task Force presented their recommendations for a national health IT comparison tool during the Jan. 20 Health IT Joint Committees meeting.

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Just say ‘no’ to QWERTY: 5 tips for using safer passwords

If you think some of your passwords might be too weak, here are a few tips to help beef them up a bit.

athenahealth partners with medical center for inpatient EHR

athenahealth and University of Toledo Medical Center are partnering to develop the vendor's EHR for deployment in the hospital, which will be the largest acute care hospital to use athenahealth's EHR, according to a Fortune report.

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Report covers threats to cybersecurity infrastructure

Valuable data, outdated technology and the human element all play significant roles in the security of the healthcare industry, according to the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology's Hacking Healthcare IT In 2016 report.

Ambulatory EHR market to grow by 30% within five years

The U.S. ambulatory EHR market is expected to grow by 30 percent over the next five years, according to analysis from Frost & Sullivan.

25K patients affected by stolen laptop

A laptop computer stolen from an employee of a Montana provider has put the personal information of some 25,000 patients at risk.

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