Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)

The California health system is projecting an annualized net income of more than $75,000 from using the technology. This could increase to more than $260,000.

Smartphones and tablets are among the mobile technologies in focus, which can be combined with telehealth video conferencing and healthcare wearables, as well as the deployment of electronic health record-based patient portals.

Findings suggest Germans are not satisfied with the progress that the health and care system in their country has made so far.

With the explosion in the amount of healthcare data being collected, one of the key challenges lie in the quality of data, as well as making the right decisions to use the appropriate data to measure specific health outcomes or predictions.

Real-world evidence drawn from unstructured clinical notes was more accurate in algorithmic prediction of coronary artery disease than structured data, a new study in JAMIA shows.

At Montefiore St. Luke’s Cornwall, prior to the CDI technology, query responses took several days to three weeks. Now, the average response time is 1.4 days. And within the hospital, there are responses within minutes.

St. Marianna University School of Medicine in Japan used a "go slow, but go steady" strategy to make small, incremental changes to overcome resistance to moving from paper to digital systems, says Director Shinji Yamamoto.

As the most recent health IT vendor to partner with a rideshare company, Cerner will embed access to Uber's non-emergency transport within the EHR workflow.

Experienced professionals in the area of nursing informatics from Singapore recently shared their lessons learnt at the Hillrom Dialogue Series.

At Boston Children’s, end-of-day reconciliation became quicker; no more cash drawers for the front-end. The entire hour and a half or more of reconciliation at the end of day was eliminated.