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The informatics group polled clinicians about the "pervasive challenge" of excessive administrative work, and found that 75% of respondents think too much documentation is detracting from care quality.

Rural hospitals bear the brunt of relentless ransomware attacks and face the greatest risk for patients with no nearby alternatives for lifesaving care. Government, Congress and industry must act, a new report says.

Banner Health, one of the largest U.S. nonprofit healthcare systems, is among the top employers in the U.S., with more than 50,000 employees operating in 28 hospitals. To improve its recruitment process, Banner partnered with Mastek to build a Provider Pre-employment Made Easier (PPME) app, an online job board, a candidate portal and a stakeholder portal using the Salesforce platform.

Getting to the unique root cause for each patient has enabled the healthcare organization to reduce hospitalizations, improve medication adherence, reduce healthcare costs, reduce medications and help patients lose weight.

Her experiences as a practicing pediatrician helped spur the development of the Kahun clinical decision support tool, says cofounder and CEO Dr. Michal Tzuchman Katz, who describes the "map" that uses AI to recommend next best actions.  

Gold Coast Health is helping keep patients with chronic diseases out of its busy ED.

Fink is an advisor and resource to the CVS Health Board of Directors and to senior management.

Cyberattackers have been shifting to strategies where legitimate tools commonly installed on desktops and servers are abused for malicious purposes. To fight back, knowledge is power.

Diana van Stijn, cofounder and chief medical officer at Lapsi Health, says that, while clinicians are natural innovators, they should be taught the business side of healthcare in medical school so they can understand healthcare IT market needs.

Efforts are being made to find ways to notify clinicians about possible medication errors without overloading them. First Databank director of product management Anna Dover and NCH Healthcare System CMIO Dr. David Linz explain.