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Veterans and guests at Orlando VA Medical Center were getting lost, and many were late for appointments. A new wayfinding technology application is changing all that.

The companies plan to create new cloud-based applications focused on patient engagement, pop health, customer relationship management, claims processing and more.

Although the current study uses only 400 3-D faces, University of Western Australia researchers want to develop a technology that is cheap, easily accessible and reliable.

The hospital can count itself among just four health systems in the world that have reached Stage 7 on the HIMSS Analytics Adoption Model for Analytics Maturity.

The University of Rochester Medical Center uses analytics with natural language processing to support the organization’s Backstop tracking program at six of its hospitals. It has seen a 29% increase in the recommended examination completion rate.

VHA medical facilities have a cumulative medical document backlog equivalent to more than five miles of stacked paper, with nearly 600,000 electronic files dating back to 2016.

Waitematā District Health Board (DHB) in New Zealand has developed a Digital Academy to train its clinical IT leaders of the future.

Learn where your health system’s gaps exist in the effort to modernize IT.

“Another case of data breach déjà vu,” said one of four security experts who chime in.

The independent physician association in collaboration with community providers and EMS services has seen a 44% drop in 911 calls, 47% reduction in EMS transport, 36% reduction in ED visits, 42% reduction in hospital admissions and 31% decrease in observation stays.