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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DeSalvo leaving ONC for Ebola response team

Nine months after being named national coordinator for health IT, Karen DeSalvo, MD, MPH, MSc, is moving to a new role within the Dept. Health and Human Services focusing on the Ebola crisis.

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Setting a good example

Regional health information exchanges (HIEs) have been joining forces and the federal focus on interoperability can only help the cause. Lowering other barriers also is leading to a greater rate of information exchange.

Mobile users have better EHR experiences

A survey of more than 600 physicians crossing specialties and practice size found that those using EHRs on mobile devices are better at using EHRs and get more out of them than those using desktop or laptop computers.

OIG audit finds FDA cybersecurity vulnerabilities

An Office of the Inspector General audit found cybersecurity vulnerabilities in the FDA's network that could put its data at risk.

BlueStep/BridgeGate Health Rebrands, Unveils Fully Interoperable EHR for LTPAC

SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 21, 2014-- BlueStep/BridgeGate Health, a provider of clinical and interoperable technology for healthcare, announced today it is rebranding to VorroHealth. Vorro is an Italian word that loosely translates to wish, willingness or intention. 

PointClickCare Launches Integrated Direct Messaging Enrollment at LeadingAge Annual Meeting & Expo 2014

NASHVILLE, Tenn.--PointClickCare, the leading cloud-based software platform for the senior care market, announced today that enrollment is now available for its secure Integrated Direct Messaging tool. 

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Delbanco: OpenNotes is ‘contagious’

BOSTON—Since OpenNotes first was implemented in Boston, rural Pennsylvania and Seattle in 2010, the number of patients with access to their notes has swelled from 19,000 to nearly 4.5 million as more organizations join the movement, according to speakers at the 2014 AMDIS Fall Symposium.

Nurses' dissatisfaction with EHRs at 'all-time high'

About 92 percent of nurses are dissatisfied with EHR systems, according to the Black Book EHR Loyalty survey, which polled nearly 14,000 registered nurses from 40 states.

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