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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HIMSS16: Curbing errors during EHR downtime

When downtime comes to your healthcare facility, the likelihood of EHR mistakes goes up, says Joseph H. Schneider, MD, Senior Vice President and Chief Health Information Officer with Indiana University Health.

Health IT Safety Collaborative Releases First Set of Safe Practices

PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA—The Partnership for Health IT Patient Safety, a multi-stakeholder collaborative convened by ECRI Institute, announces the release of Safe Practice Recommendations for the use of copy and paste, at HIMSS16 in Las Vegas. This is the Partnership's first release in a series of evidence-based recommendations designed to improve health IT safety.

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PCORI network pledge will help patients access EHR data

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) announced an initiative to enable individuals to access data in their EHRs and share it for research that could improve care for their conditions.

Survey: Are you ready for HIMSS16?

HIMSS16 is expected to attract more than 40,000 attendees from across the globe. Are you one of them? Take our HIMSS16 attendee survey and let us know why you're making the trip and what you hope to get out of the conference.

Cybersecurity report finds healthcare 'an industry in turmoil'

A two-year report analyzing cybersecurity in healthcare calls patient health “extremely vulnerable” and the industry itself “in turmoil.”

EHR Association updates Code of Conduct

The EHR Association has released Version 2 of the EHR Developer Code of Conduct after unanimous approval by the association’s member companies earlier this month.

Interoperability Proving Ground is first output of ONC's Tech Lab

The Interoperability Proving Ground (IPG), is the first output of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT's ONC Tech Lab approach.

Philips to introduce data recovery service

Royal Philips has announced plans to introduce a secure data recovery service, built in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), that rapidly captures and backs up an entire healthcare organization's data repository in the cloud.

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