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This healthcare IT mega-corporation was started as a limited liability parody – a good natured attempt to shed satirical light on the underlying reasons for the ridiculously low adoption of electronic health records, personal health records, e-prescribing systems and other HCIT solutions.

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The Department of Veterans Affairs has reportedly signed an interagency agreement with the Office of Personnel Management to oversee staff reductions in force of up to 80,000 staff members.

Working with hellocare.ai, the health system's Florida campus will co-develop ambient clinical intelligence to improve inpatient care and reduce clinician workloads. 

The health systems' MyCare Anywhere app fuses the Epic EHR, MyChart, telemedicine, expert health content, self-guided health journeys and more. MetroHealth has done 27,000 virtual visits with thousands of referrals in the first year.

The new telesurgery service in Central Queensland will also accelerate the training and upskilling of surgical residents and trainees. 

After SimpleHelp disclosed a security vulnerability in its remote monitoring and management tool earlier this year, threat actors are gaining access to U.S. networks and exploiting the flaw to steal data before shutting down operational systems.

Informatics leaders also have to be closely invested in their organization's goals, says Dr. Robert W. Warren, who offers advice drawn from a long career on bridging clinical and technological roles, making tough decisions and being a team leader.

The combined deployment of an enterprise-wide electronic health record with business and clinical analytics helped a health system deliver better patient care, among other benefits.

Small providers struggle for survival, and security risks only exacerbate the challenge. But by sharing technologies and making use of resources like virtual CISOs, some hospitals are staying ahead of their biggest closure risks.