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Also: CommonSpirit reports increased earnings in the year after a major ransomware disruption and widespread data breach.
To gain insights into population health risks from aggregated data across multiple systems, the Electronic Health Record Association asks CMS to ensure risk standards are well defined under IPPS before expanding domain capture requirements.
The IT developer says its latest update gives specialty providers, including women's health practices and urgent care centers, the ability to configure electronic health records to their specific needs, reducing administrative burdens.
While all facilities are reportedly open and providing care, disruptions continue, with some provider sites unable to fill prescriptions, certain procedures rescheduled and delays in diagnostic imaging and testing.
Researchers compare machine learning models to traditional alerts for critically ill adults, while a new real-world GLP-1 data trove incorporates unstructured data. Also, RapidAI earns another FDA clearance for rapid stroke imaging.
As part of its annual renegotiation of the agency's EHR modernization efforts, three senators are asking the Veterans Affairs to add more opportunities to hold the vendor responsible for the quality and safety of its deployments.
Meanwhile, staff at the health system say they don't have patient orders and can't page doctors. As it works to restore clinical systems, Ascension says it's working with law enforcement and sharing threat intelligence to help prevent similar attacks.
Nursing and IT
For nurse practitioners and physician assistants in states with restrictive practice rules, it matches them with other clinicians, automates licensing compliance and provides EHR-agnostic chart sharing and a HIPAA-compliant chat.
Project Heal will track health misinformation trends and generate adaptable counter-messaging for public health agencies to use in their efforts to address false claims.
Also: OM1 now offers a platform that translates population patterns for clinical decision-making at the provider level.