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Keena Healthcare Technology and Altera Digital Health expand strategic partnership

Digital Health Global

Altera to offer Keena’s full line of workflow optimization and data integration solutions to TouchWorks® EHR clients NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Keena Healthcare Technology , a healthcare optimization organization, and Altera Digital Health , a global health IT leader, announce today that they have engaged in a reseller agreement.

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Five Digital Health Imperatives for Patient Safety

The Digital Health Corner

In fact, low health literacy is related to higher mortality rates. In a post I wrote here in 2012, I discussed some of the implications of low health literacy. RFID and other advanced digital technologies have been developed to help in this regard. Improving the electronic medical record (EHR).

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Digital health is ready for its second act. Will it deliver on its promise to empower patients and providers?

Redox

Almost everyone agrees that digital health is a benefit to their organization and to their patients. Yet systems, culture, history, beliefs, and habits make it difficult to figure out how to actually make the adaptations needed for better digital health. Laying the foundation for Health IT.

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Intelerad Acquires Life Image, Establishing the Clear Medical Image Exchange Market Leader and Path to a Global Open Image Exchange Network

Healthcare IT Today

By combining two of the largest image sharing networks and ensuring open access between networks, Intelerad takes a critical step in advancing access to digital health information. “As providers and 58,000 global clinics.

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VA seeing substantial growth in telehealth, key patient engagement tools

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

VA was an early adopter of digital health tools and remains a leader within US health care in leveraging technology to enhance patient engagement. million veterans interacting with the site, including their personal health data, every month. In FY19, there were more than 20.6 million Rx refill requests.

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Weekender 7/6/18

HIStalk Weekender

UK-based private equity firm Hg will buy Orion Health’s Rhapsody healthcare integration technology business and 25 percent of its population health unit. Tennessee prescribers ordered 104 million tablets of OxyContin from 2008 to 2017, the majority of them for high doses. Readers Write: EHRs Have Not Reduced Paper Usage Yet.

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Weekender 9/28/18

HIStalk Weekender

VA Secretary Robert Wilkie tells the Senate VA Committee that he and representatives at the DoD are working to create a “single point of authority” for their respective EHR projects with Cerner. Weekly News Recap. Best Reader Comments. You’re pointing out a failure of medicine to follow evidence. Lafsky, MD ). Woodstock Generation ).

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