Jack McCarthy

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Primary care doctors now lose more than an hour a day to sorting through approximately 77 electronic health record notifications, researchers at Baylor University found.

New resources focus on available technologies, emerging professional roles and leadership to help health information management professionals more effectively work with both clinicians and patients.

The federal government is pursuing a fistful of bold visions to transform healthcare including the Precision Medicine Initiative and the National Cancer Moonshot, and for those to succeed patients are going to need the ability to access and share health data in new ways, according to three federal officials.

Cyberattackers targeted Apple users over the weekend with the first known ransomware written specifically for Apple software, according to security firm Palo Alto Networks.

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Healthcare organizations are recognizing that clinical decision support technology that integrates with electronic health records can be utilized to improve quality of care and better utilize staff and resources.

The development of standards through the lab will help ONC further develop interoperability standards, official says.

While early-adopting healthcare organizations are seeing strategic value by leveraging predictive analytics to inform their plans and programs, most providers are only in the initial phases of implementation.

Hackensack University Medical Center is tapping new technologies to achieve more effective medication adherence, according to Hackensack UMC’s director of pharmacy Nilesh Desai.