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Kat Jercich

Kat Jercich

Kat Jercich is the Senior Editor at Healthcare IT News. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Advocate, and others. Previously, she was Vice President and Managing Editor at Rewire.News.

A clinician looking inside a child's mouth at a medical appointment
By Kat Jercich | 04:35 pm | April 28, 2022
A team from Boston Children's Hospital and Yonsei University used local weather information to help forecast the possibility of patients missing scheduled appointments.
A patient in bed
By Kat Jercich | 12:20 pm | April 28, 2022
KLAS researchers say that many organizations are moving toward enterprise software for safety, risk and compliance management needs.
Lights connecting among buildings
By Kat Jercich | 04:20 pm | April 27, 2022
Researchers from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT found substantial differences between solo and large-practice physicians when it came to data exchange capabilities.
Hands on a keyboard
By Kat Jercich | 12:02 pm | April 27, 2022
A statement from the company followed reports of interrupted services at facilities in Massachusetts and Florida.
President Joe Biden
By Kat Jercich | 05:06 pm | April 26, 2022
The White House announced Tuesday that it was calling on electronic health record vendors to incorporate information about antivirals directly into their interfaces.
A person in exercise clothes looks at their smartwatch
By Kat Jercich | 02:27 pm | April 26, 2022
Scientists from the National Institutes of Health's "All of Us" program found that cost and technology awareness could pose hurdles to broad adoption of digital health devices.
The Epic booth at HIMSS
By Kat Jercich | 11:09 am | April 26, 2022
Epic held the largest share of acute-care hospitals among electronic health record vendors, followed by Cerner and Meditech.
A VA sign
By Kat Jercich | 05:29 pm | April 25, 2022
Representatives from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs said the patient's prescription had not been renewed as it should have been, although the medication could still be viewed in a different area of the system.
A patient on a video medical visit
By Kat Jercich | 01:11 pm | April 25, 2022
Most respondents, however, point to the digital divide as the biggest obstacle to accessing virtual services.
Dentures held by hands in gloves
By Kat Jercich | 05:03 pm | April 22, 2022
Researchers linked patient records with the lab values of nutritional biomarkers to examine potential connections within the data.

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