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Dr. Medell Briggs-Malonson Chief of health equity, diversity and inclusion UCLA Health Briggs-Malonson, who also serves as an associate professor of emergency medicine at UCLA's medical school, has overseen and [...]

Mount Sinai Health System Mount Sinai Health System is a New York-based organization that includes eight hospitals and more than 400 ambulatory practice locations. Leaders have: -- Partnered with diagnostic [...]

Laura Wilt Senior vice president and chief digital officer Sutter Health Wilt joined the 22-hospital, Sacramento, California-headquartered Sutter Health in 2023 to oversee development of a unified digital strategy for [...]

Byline: Brock E.W. Turner Electronic health record company Epic is amping up efforts to expand its customer base beyond health systems with a focus on payers, telehealth and life science [...]

Byline: Mari Devereaux Clinicians at some health systems are turning to artificial intelligence-driven tools to predict and avert negative patient outcomes, though stakeholders say caution is still warranted. Provider organizations [...]

Byline: BROCK E.W. TURNER Suchi Saria, founder and CEO of Bayesian Health From your perspective as leader of Bayesian Health, an AI-based clinical decision-support platform for health systems, what challenges [...]

MIDWEST Minnetonka, Minneapolis-headquartered UnitedHealth Group said at its annual investor conference that it projects 2024 revenue to hit $400 billion, a 9.1% increase over 2023's anticipated revenue, after accounting for [...]

Byline: MARY ELLEN PODMOLIK It's the time of year when thousands of newly minted college graduates are looking ahead to what's next. In healthcare, that could mean starting a first [...]

Byline: Jessica Kim Cohen Epic Systems is adding tools that connect patients to clinical trials and bring together doctors treating patients with similar rare conditions through its Cosmos life sciences [...]

Byline: Jessica Kim Cohen Most patients can access medical data through their patient portal. But while patient portals provide a convenient way to view data, they could be more useful [...]

Byline: Megan Caruso More hospitals either switched electronic health record vendors voluntarily or switched due to a merger or acquisition in 2020 than in previous years. All in all, 239 [...]

Byline: Alex Kacik When Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, the storm wiped out many of Louisiana hospitals' paper patient records. That compelled Dr. Karen DeSalvo, who was at Tulane University [...]

Starting in December 2022, electronic health record vendors and other software companies will be forced to make application programming interfaces that meet specific standards available to customers if they want [...]

Origins Health information exchanges started in the early 1990s, as hospitals established community health information networks to share patient medical records among providers. In these early years, the large data [...]

Byline: Jessica Kim Cohen St. Louis-based Ascension is expanding a pilot of an electronic health record tool from Google, a next step in the controversial partnership it struck with the [...]

Byline: Jessica Kim Cohen HHS' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology is preparing an industrywide standard for documenting patient addresses. Project US@ will launch early next year. [...]

Byline: Jessica Kim Cohen A leader of the Veterans Affairs Department last week confirmed to lawmakers that the agency is on track to bring its first site live on a [...]

MIDWEST Lurie Children's fires worker for viewing 4,800 records without reason An employee who improperly viewed thousands of patient records no longer works at Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, the [...]

While COVID-19 has spurred progress in innovation at health systems, it's also diverted time, energy and resources from projects unrelated to the pandemic. Here are examples of projects that health [...]

Byline: Dustin Walsh Beaumont Health reported a data breach that compromised the personal and health information of roughly 112,000 former or current patients. It's the second data breach that Michigan's [...]

Byline: Maria Castellucci HHS late last week issued its long-awaited strategy for reducing the regulatory and administrative burden that health information technology poses to clinicians. The strategy, published by the [...]

Byline: Jessica Kim Cohen AdventHealth, a faith-based health system with 50 hospital campuses, plans to implement an integrated electronic health record and revenue cycle management system from Epic Systems Corp. [...]

Although the healthcare industry has made significant progress toward paying for value, those arrangements aren't moving the needle on cost and quality, a new report shows. Quorum Health could be [...]

Byline: Jessica Kim Cohen Veterans Affairs Department leaders last month tried to reassure lawmakers that they are on track to bring the first site live on a new electronic health [...]

The article focuses on a data security incident reported by for-profit health system HCA Healthcare in July 2023 which may have compromised personal information of millions of patients. Topics include the exposed data shared online by an unauthorized party such patient names, locations, contact information, birth dates, gender and appointment dates, the impact of the incident on operations and business of HCA, and the immediate containment measure taken by the company to address the problem.

The article reports on the increasing number of states that opted to use Medicaid programs to fund community health workers. It cites the aim of the U.s. Vongress to grow the community health workforce through the American Rescue Plan which allocated funds to support state Medicaid agencies, community groups, providers or other organizations and regional governments. The use of public funds to support workers' services was also made possible by the Affordable Care Act.

Hospitals have been slow to recognize clinicians' growing concern over patients' prejudice against their race, gender, sexual orientation, culture or religion. More drugs are in short supply for longer periods [...]

Byline: Jessica Kim Cohen When reviewing a patient's history, a physician might be faced with pages upon pages of previously added clinical notes. By some estimates, the typical patient note [...]

Byline: Jessica Kim Cohen 'Just to make sure I'm not missing anything, it sounds like your child has been having worsening cold symptoms and fever for the past three days. [...]

Allscripts Healthcare Solutions reached a tentative settlement with the U.S. Justice Department to resolve investigations of an electronic health record vendor it bought last year. Practice Fusion, which Allscripts acquired [...]

It will cost the Veterans Affairs Department at least $4.89 billion to maintain its current electronic health record system during its Cerner transition, department officials told lawmakers last week. The [...]

Byline: Jessica Kim Cohen The Defense and Veterans Affairs Departments plan to create a joint office that will have decisionmaking authority for their co-developed health record system. After months of [...]

Byline: Jessica Kim Cohen Tech giants Apple and Microsoft Corp. came out in support of a proposed rule aimed at making it easier for patients to carry their medical records [...]

Byline: Shelby Livingston Inova Health System's quest to rid itself of wasteful care started small with posters and handouts scattered about the exam and waiting rooms of its primary-care clinics [...]

Byline: Matthew Weinstock JUNE 3: It's deadline day to file comments with the CMS and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology on their proposed rules promoting [...]

Byline: Jessica Kim Cohen Health systems spent millions on digital innovation in 2018, according to Modern Healthcare's most recent Power Panel survey of top CEOs. More than a third of [...]

WEST Kaiser to launch social care network Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente will soon launch a new care network that connects the system's more than 12 million members to community services [...]

Providers, health plans and their business associates reported 44 data breaches to the federal government in April. That's the highest number reported in a single month since HHS' Office for [...]

Gather nurses' insight to create questions for patients about barriers to discharge. Integrate the questions into the electronic health record so nurses can view them during patient encounters. Mention discharge [...]

Byline: Jessica Kim Cohen Hospital leaders were generally supportive of key information technology provisions included in the proposed update to the inpatient prospective payment system. The CMS suggested keeping the [...]

Byline: Jessica Kim Cohen University Health System--a 617-bed health system based in San Antonio--recently kicked off a systemwide electronic health record installation, scrapping its current Allscripts EHR in favor of [...]

Byline: Jessica Kim Cohen HHS extended the comment period for two proposed interoperability rules. The CMS and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology released their long-awaited [...]

Byline: Jessica Kim Cohen In yet another sign that consumer technology companies are making a big play to disrupt healthcare, Amazon is now allowing select healthcare groups--including hospitals and health [...]

Train nurses to administer baths using the antiseptic chlorhexidine for patients with catheters and lumbar drains. Add a section to the electronic health record that allows nurses to note when [...]

Byline: Megan Caruso While demand for implementing electronic health record systems within hospitals and health systems remains consistent, health IT consulting firms are discovering new challenges as some providers revisit [...]

Byline: Jessica Kim Cohen In the drive for adoption of electronic health records, the post-acute sector has been overlooked. That's slowly changing as the CMS begins to shift its attention [...]

-- A whistleblower lawsuit accused Community Health Systems of submitting hundreds of millions of dollars in false claims to HHS for federal incentive payments for meaningfully using electronic health records. [...]

NORTHEAST Beth Israel Deaconess teams with Amazon to boost efficiency Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston is working with Amazon's cloud computing arm AWS to study whether artificial intelligence [...]

Byline: Maria Castellucci WITH AS MANY AS 120 patients per day at its ED, emergency physicians at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center keep pretty busy. That frantic pace makes it [...]