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Telehealth
By Bill Siwicki | 12:13 pm | December 04, 2018
Telemedicine consults have grown 73 percent annually over the last five years at the Kansas City children's hospital.
Interoperability
By Mike Miliard | 10:21 am | December 04, 2018
The concept is simpler than many realize, but the implementation can be complex and challenging. Health systems should think deliberately about new proofs-of-concept, but get on board soon.
Strategic Planning
By Diana Manos | 10:03 am | December 04, 2018
The time has finally come for hospitals to keep pace with other industries patient experience-wise, analyst firm says.
08:42 am | December 04, 2018
A global investigation has found that unsafe medical devices have caused 1.
Patient Engagement
By Dillan Yogendra | 07:13 am | December 04, 2018
Since opening its doors to the first patients in September this year, the New Children’s Hospital in Helsinki, Finland is using a unique combination of art and play, recognised as key elements for a “healing environment", and the latest technologies available to support the children that it provides services for and their parents.
Data Warehousing
By HIMSS Media | 04:48 pm | December 03, 2018
For December we’ll dive deep to separate what’s really happening today from the marketing speak.
Electronic Health Records
By Bill Siwicki | 04:02 pm | December 03, 2018
Some doctors at Massachusetts General Physicians Organization have saved more than two hours per clinical session with virtual scribe technology.
SPONSORED Analytics
By Intel | Intel | 10:27 am | December 03, 2018
As the potential of edge computing becomes more widely recognized, healthcare organizations will be expected  to take advantage of it, ready or not.
Strategic Planning
By Tom Sullivan | 09:59 am | December 03, 2018
Here’s a look at what hospitals need to move forward, and the top priorities and biggest obstacles they face today.
Workflow
By Leontina Postelnicu | 09:38 am | December 03, 2018
NHSmail national outage caused by “software issue” The national NHS email service managed by Accenture suffered a "severity 1" outage midday on 1 December, caused by a “software issue in the supplier’s internal infrastructure”, which meant that NHS staff were unable to access their accounts.