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Experts from Pew and Accenture discuss the challenges of patient matching, and describe how biometrics technologies can help.

NAACOS and others want CMS to hold harmless providers participating in alternative payment models from performance-related penalties for 2020.

The Seattle-based health system, long focused on keeping competitive with consumer tech, is using its platforms to help manage "the biggest disruptor we've had," says its chief digital officer.

Financial pressures, limited resources, and changing regulations contribute to bottom-line risk and the alarming result is often rural hospital failure and closure. In this new series from Dr. Robert Budman, we explore what’s behind this and, more importantly, what rural and critical access hospitals can do to keep the doors open.

St. Stephen's Hospital, based in Hervey Bay, Queensland, one of the first HIMSS Stage 7 hospitals in Australia, used bar coding, CPOE and change-management strategies to boost its patient safety.

The Houston ENT & Allergy Clinic also increased its referral conversion by 35%, which translated to an additional $500,000 in annual revenue.

Data-integrity challenges and repetition are posing big problems for electronic health records, with adverse financial and clinical costs, a new Black Book report shows.

The UK government has released a statement in conjunction with many key players in the telecoms industry to announce their elevated support during the COVID-19 crisis. 

The two tech giants' unprecedented partnership looks to engage as many users in disease tracing and prevention efforts as possible while tearing down the data silos of their respective smartphone platforms.  

In the third installment of our Your Stories feature, some Healthcare IT News readers describe their own thoughts and experiences of the coronavirus pandemic. We encourage you to continue sharing your own.