EHR
This week's top stories include Walmart using Epic's EHR platform, large health insurers controlling the market in nearly three-quarters of the country, and Amazon debuting the Halo View wearable.
Shafiq Rab, chief digital officer and system CIO at Wellforce, describes the strategic opportunities – and the challenges – of moving the health system's entire Epic infrastructure and app ecosystem to AWS cloud.
This week's top stories include the VA flagging unreliable IT infrastructure cost estimates for its EHR modernization program, a new Alzheimer's drug that could cost Medicaid more than $2 billion, and Amazon using radar for monitoring sleep.
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The cloud is ready for healthcare, says James Millington, director of Healthcare Industry Marketing at VMware, so healthcare organizations are moving their data centers from on-premises to the cloud.
Owensboro Health CMIO Dr. David Danhauer describes how he devised a safety initiative that integrated NLP with EHR work queues – helping review and track clinical notes to ensure radiology reports are capturing incidental findings.
Justin Diehl, vice president of Epic services at CereCore, guides viewers through the challenges of operating multiple EHR systems.
You start to see real benefits when you have that embodiment of technology fully embedded in the workflow, says Dr. Afzal Chaudhry, chief medical information officer at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Jessica Sweeney-Platt, vice president of research and editorial strategy at athenahealth, says poor health IT usability can lead to burnout and shares what kinds of usability efforts are needed to fight stress.
Cerner's Hans Buitendijk, EHRA executive committee chair, and Foothold's David Bucciferro, committee vice chair, share how the association's COVID-19 Task Force is working with provider customers.
Clinical leadership, government support and financial resources are central to driving digital transformation and attaining HIMSS EMRAM Stage 7, says Dr. Aziz Ahmet Surel, coordinator chief physician at Ankara City Hospital in Turkey.