Tag: Hospitals and clinics

January 4, 2019

Harrison Memorial Hospital is working to get its data in order as it pursues plans to become a regional medical center. The 61-bed facility in Cynthiana, Ky., is pursuing these ambitious plans by upgrading its legacy Meditech electronic health record […]

December 21, 2018

The Penn Brain Tumor Center is using telemedicine technology to enable its expert physicians to give virtual second opinions to brain tumor patients. Under the new program, a Penn neurosurgeon will coordinate with a patient’s local doctor to evaluate the […]

December 20, 2018

New data show that although hospitals are using electronic methods to exchange summary of care records, they are still using paper. A majority of hospitals last year used more than one electronic method to routinely send (78 percent) and receive […]

December 12, 2018

The Department of Veterans Affairs is enlisting partners in an effort expand telehealth services to the nation’s veterans. The agency has announced several industry partnerships in a program to enhance its connected care program, offering growing support for the use […]

December 11, 2018

The use of telemedicine in emergency departments operated by rural critical access hospitals is not only saving healthcare costs for these facilities but is helping them to recruit and retain physicians. That’s the finding of a new study from the […]

November 1, 2018

A Mayo Clinic telemedicine initiative in Jacksonville, Fla., is helping to speed stroke care during patient transport to the hospital by leveraging mobile videoconferencing technology. The system from telehealth services vendor InTouch Health of Santa Barbara, Calif., enables neurologists to […]

October 26, 2018

The vast majority of acute care hospitals has upgraded or plan to upgrade to the 2015 Edition Health IT Certification Criteria. The Office of the National Coordinator for HIT has released results of an analysis of 2017 data from the […]

October 24, 2018

A technique that uses real-time imaging combined with augmented reality to remove early stage lung tumors and other lesions has taken another step closer to broader use. Navigation Sciences, a Brookline, Mass.-based company, is licensing rights to develop for commercialization […]

September 14, 2018

With Hurricane Florence making landfall, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar has waived sanctions and penalties under certain provisions of the HIPAA Privacy Rule. While the HIPAA Privacy Rule is not suspended during a public health or other emergency, […]

August 17, 2018

The Department of Health and Human Services has awarded $125 million in quality improvement grants throughout the country. The agency says the funds will be used to upgrade the health information technology at 1,352 health centers in all 50 states, […]

August 13, 2018

The United Network for Organ Sharing is working with software vendors Cerner and Statline to automate manual processes surrounding organ donations. The initiative aims to improve the process for notifying hospitals about potential organ donors, with the hopes of reducing […]

July 12, 2018

Cass Regional Medical Center in Harrisonville, Mo., is continuing to recover from a ransomware attack that was discovered at 11 a.m. on July 9 and affected email and internet services, as well as its electronic health records system. Data in […]

June 7, 2018

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai has sent a draft order to FCC colleagues increasing the annual funding cap by $171 million for the Rural Health Care Program, which provides telecommunications and broadband services to rural communities supporting telemedicine. Pai’s […]

May 23, 2018

Allied Physicians of Michiana, a 50-provider multispecialty practice in South Bend, Ind., suffered a ransomware attack on May 17 that was caused by a SamSam malware variant. Records from an unknown number of patients were temporarily affected by the incident. […]

May 11, 2018

Children’s National Health System, a pediatric academic health system, is working with patient engagement vendor GetWellNetwork to develop a mobile app for families facing a new diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder for a loved one. “Our families have told us […]

May 9, 2018

Adding photoacoustic imaging to some robotic surgery procedures may reduce the number of injuries that inadvertently occur, according to a recent study in the Journal of Medical Imaging. The research specifically looked at hysterectomies and potential damage to the ureter […]

April 11, 2018

Hackers have launched at least eight separate cyberattacks on healthcare and government organizations so far this year using SamSam ransomware, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. The 2018 attacks include incidents involving two Indiana-based hospitals and one […]

April 2, 2018

Apple has launched an enhancement to its Health app that enables patients at participating U.S. hospitals and clinics to get access to their medical records from multiple providers on their iPhones. Previously, 12 major providers—including Cedars-Sinai, Johns Hopkins Medicine and […]

March 22, 2018

The Mayo Clinic is using imaging on a regular basis, creating point-of-care 3D anatomical models to aid physicians so frequently that 3D printing has become a regular component of patient treatment. Point-of-care manufacturing is a technology that enables the process […]

March 5, 2018

Nearly all hospital patients can view information from their electronic health record online, according to new data released by the American Hospital Association. The AHA Annual Survey Information Technology Supplement for community hospitals collected between November 2016 and April 2017 […]