A collaboration between clinic-management specialists Savience Limited and healthcare IT solution firm HSL Telehealth has created a new secure virtual clinic service. By integrating the virtual clinic module from Savience’s Clarity system with HSL’s shared conferencing and collaboration network, the service allows clinicians to organise a remote outpatient’s consultation by…
Tech heavyweights, others call on HHS to release info blocking rules
More than two dozen of healthcare organizations and technology companies sent an open letter this past week to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Office of Management and Budget, urging them to quickly finalize rules allowing application programming interface access to patient records. The letter, signed…
Depression in physicians linked to medical errors, study shows
Physician depression has implications for the quality of care delivered by them and they are highly likely to report medical errors, according to a report based on an analysis of 11 studies involving more than 21,500 physicians. WHY IT MATTERS The University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor study,…
Alcidion launches Australia’s first mobile EMR app
Melbourne-based healthcare software solutions provider today launched Miya MEMRe, a mobile Electronic Medical Record (EMR), which provides clinicians’ access to caseloads, critical issues and comprehensive patient records on the go. The app is the first locally developed solution of its type to offer full access to EMR data, and the…
Cerner teams up with Uber to help patients get to appointments
Cerner and Uber are collaborating to help get patients to and from their doctor’s appointments – addressing a major social determinant of health that hinders the cost-effective management of chronic conditions. WHY IT MATTERS The Uber Health app will soon be available for integration into Cerner’s electronic health record, enabling…
CMS unveils new rules aimed at clinician burden, patient experience
As part of its Patients Over Paperwork initiative, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services unveiled its Omnibus Burden Reduction Final Rule on Thursday, aimed at combating clinician burnout. It also finalized a new rule on discharge planning, aimed at patients preparing to move from hospitals into post-acute care settings,…
ONC names Sequoia Project as TEFCA coordinator
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has awarded a new cooperative agreement to the Sequoia Project to run a major component of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, or TEFCA. WHY IT MATTERS As the recognized coordinating entity for TEFCA, Sequoia Project is charged with developing,…
NHSX, NHS England publish list of accredited EPR suppliers
In a flurry of announcements regarding the health service this week, including a £250m national AI lab, NHSX and NHS England have released a list of accredited electronic patient record (EPR) suppliers to ensure those purchasing get the “best value for money” when looking at new solutions. The vendors were assessed by experts…
Jon White departs ONC, Steve Posnack to take over as Deputy National Coordinator
Deputy National Coordinator for Health IT Dr. Jon White is leaving the agency next month for a position at the Veterans Administration Salt Lake City Health Care System, where he’ll be Associate Chief of Staff of Research. WHY IT MATTERS White has been at ONC for five years. Steve Posnack,…
How to gauge the value of precision medicine programs
Every health system understands the potential of precision medicine, but not all of them are quite ready to take the plunge into the complex and expensive project of actually starting a precision medicine initiative. At HIMSS19 on Monday, Dr. James Weese, vice president of Aurora Cancer Care at Milwaukee-based Advocate…
Bipartisan Policy Center seeks better integration of clinical, behavioral health data in EHRs
A new report this month from the Bipartisan Policy Center explores the reasons for – and remedies to – the fact that mental and behavioral health data are so poorly integrated with clinical information in electronic health records. WHY IT MATTERS Some 45 million Americans have some form of mental…