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The New York health system said an employee, who has been fired, inappropriately accessed electronic health records and viewed clinical information, including test results and diagnoses.

Healthcare IT News asked chief information officers from around the country about which technologies have proved most instrumental in the vaccines' early days – and what improvements might be helpful moving forward.

The nurse practitioner will serve as "the Nation's Doctor" pending the Senate confirmation of Dr. Vivek H. Murthy.

This follows the ambition for all social care providers to have access to a digital social care record that can interoperate with a local Shared Care Record by 2024. 

Compliance is a serious, enforceable matter – and must be properly addressed in the context of the workplace challenges and changes that have emerged amid the pandemic. 

Physicians point to long work hours and bureaucratic tasks as contributing to exhaustion and job-related stress, a new survey shows. "An EHR that actually works right" would help, said one.

The clinically integrated network uses the technology to help primary care physicians, nurse coordinators and care managers close quality gaps.

Providers at the Western Ohio-based health system work with staff at more than 70 schools to keep kids healthy and avoid ER visits using virtual care.

It helped eliminate delays for mission-critical applications, improve clinician experience, optimize IT human resources, make disk expansion process 10X faster and reduce time spent managing storage by 75%.

The company had donated to the 2020 campaigns of a dozen federal legislators who went on to object to the presidential election results.