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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.

By Kat Jercich | 12:14 pm | August 21, 2020
During a HIMSS20 Digital session, Trapollo CEO Mike Braham described some of the ways that remote care apps can support patient needs.
By Kat Jercich | 05:05 pm | August 20, 2020
White House task force coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx said the process of HHS bypassing the CDC was meant to be "solely an interim system," according to a WSJ report that HHS later denied.
By Kat Jercich | 01:44 pm | August 20, 2020
The system had already been using Synchronous Health's services to address burnout and trauma among its caregivers.
By Kat Jercich | 04:03 pm | August 19, 2020
The cloud-based platform allows hospital users to create cases from scanned whole slide images and it's cross-compatible with most other WSIs, the company says.
By Kat Jercich | 01:21 pm | August 19, 2020
The company says it will use Nucleus.io's cloud-native technology to complete its own AI-powered medical imaging platform.
By Kat Jercich | 03:17 pm | August 18, 2020
A new article in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association points to the dissemination of "under-developed and potentially biased models" in response to the novel coronavirus.
By Kat Jercich | 12:48 pm | August 18, 2020
Judge Frederic Block issued a preliminary injunction preventing the Trump administration from reversing an Obama-era expansion of antidiscrimination rules in healthcare.
By Kat Jercich | 04:52 pm | August 17, 2020
Others say the "chaos" they initially faced as a result of the shift has largely calmed.
By Kat Jercich | 01:27 pm | August 17, 2020
A JAMA Network Open study suggested that ICD-10 codes had poor sensitivity for fever, cough and dyspnea.
By Kat Jercich | 04:54 pm | August 14, 2020
Fran Ayalasomayajula, founder and president of Reach, wants to get a connected blood pressure monitor into the hands of every patient in their third trimester of pregnancy.