Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 6, 2018

BlackBerry Limited announced on 30 November 2018 it has become a HIMSS Analytics Certified Consultant to help address the digital infrastructure needs of healthcare organizations around the world.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 16, 2019

In November 2018, Mary Ang and her team won $45,000 in the Department of Health & Human Service’s Easy EHR Issue Reporting Challenge. Then she disappeared…until last week. Almost exactly a year after her Challenge win, Ang debuted a refined, production-ready version of her prize-winning application at the 2019 IHI Forum.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Back in 2018 one of the hottest technologies in the exhibit hall was Virtual + Augmented Reality. Yes, there were more attendees this year vs 2022, but it was not the size of the crowd that stood out, it was the energy. As I walked the aisles, I could see more smiling faces and more deal-making. This was a very encouraging sign for 2024.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 29, 2020

Practice Fusion is now owned by Allscripts, which acquired it in 2018. Practice Fusion, a San Francisco-based EHR vendor with a controversy-rich history, has agreed to pay $145 million to settle allegations that it engaged in a kickback scheme designed to increase opioid prescriptions and issues with their meaningful use EHR certification.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 26, 2019

The use of telehealth services climbed dramatically over the four years between 2014 and 2018, according to new research based on healthcare claims data. To get a look at telehealth’s impact on healthcare overall, FAIR Health analyzed more than 29 billion healthcare claim records.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 11, 2020

To conduct the study, researchers analyzed 8,657 observations using the National Quality Forum Health IT Safety Measure, a CPOE and EHR safety test administered by the Leapfrog Group between 2009 and 2018. The tool uses […].

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Electronic medical records Last year, the Brazilian government launched a project to modernize patient records for more than 42,000 public health clinics across the country by the end of 2018. iClinic, a SaaS EMR platform, is one of the top Brazilian startups that has made a big impact on modernizing healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 7, 2019

According to John Moore of Chilmark Research, who attended Epic’s 2018 UGM conference, […]. In recent times, Epic has expanded its vision from being merely an EHR vendor to offering access to a gigantic patient health dataset culled from a broad range of providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

A new report by a security vendor says that it has seen a big increase in the volume of threats against healthcare organizations during the first three quarters of this year. The report, by Malwarebytes, says that it saw a 60% increase of threats at healthcare organizations when comparing all of 2018 with just the […].

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Healthcare Cybersecurity EMR EHR Healthcare IT 52

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2024

Another study in 2018 suggested something more personal. Some patients avoid portals because they fear losing the human touch in their healthcare. In 2022, a study highlighted a stark difference: only 60% of Black and 57% of Hispanic patients used these portals, compared to 70% of white patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2023

One annual survey found that 53% of physicians say they are burnt out, and in 2018, that figure was 42%. Prioritizing Usability Physician burnout has been on the rise, and it’s not showing signs of slowing. Of those who report burnout, 25% cite the computerization of practice and EHRs as a top contributor.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

For the last few years, a growing number of healthcare organizations have been integrating information on social determinants of health into their population health management efforts. In fact, survey results published in early 2018 concluded that 80% of the organizations they surveyed had begun to track and use SDOH data.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Amplify also participated […].

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HIStalk Weekender

JULY 12, 2019

Twenty years from now if someone as industrious as Vince Ciotti wants to write the next history of EMR/HIS, all they will have to do is take Vince’s PowerPoints and put in the new vendor names. I hate too say it, but after 40+ years in the healthcare IT world, information technology can’t reform healthcare. Frank Poggio ).

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