Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)

The collaboration, which will see the health systems working with deidentified data for algorithm development and validation, will focus on patient outcomes and aim toward "personalized, predictive and proactive medicine."

"While I fully appreciate substantial challenges exist," he said of the rocky Cerner Oracle rollout, which has been put on pause, "the fact is that more is working than is not."

MediRecords's FHIR will also ensure that the hospital's data warehouses will be seamlessly updated with information.

The health system realized an 18% reduction in after-hours work for physicians – and the clinician team was estimated to save more than 43 hours monthly in time spent within the EHR.

Health systems in Kansas and Colorado had made sizable bitcoin payments after ransomware attacks. That money has now been recovered by the FBI and will be returned.

By offering the AI-powered clinical documentation tool through the Microsoft Marketplace, the company hopes to broaden uptake and help alleviate clinician burnout.

The VA Office of Inspector General cites nearly 150 adverse events connected to a routing glitch, and says "insufficient mitigations" and "continued risk to patient safety" leave it with big concerns about the so-called "unknown queue."

"The industry needs to think about how EHR technology most effectively leverages data to the patient's benefit," says Amanda Hansen of AdvancedMD. "There's still work to be done."

England's plan for a "digital revolution" in health and social care has been released, including the introduction of annual digital maturity assessments across the NHS.

By connecting patients in rural Wisconsin with remote monitoring tools, the health system aims to reduce non-emergency ED visits, improve outcomes and lower costs.