Tag: Clinical decision support

March 23, 2017

Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle is expanding an existing relationship with patient engagement software vendor Emmi Solutions, planning to use more of its services to gain more reporting capabilities. Virginia Mason is adding Emmi’s patient reported outcomes surveys to […]

March 7, 2017

Cancer Treatment Centers of America is collaborating with three healthcare IT vendors to implement a customized solution that enables clinical decision support for cancer treatment that’s provided within clinicians’ workflow, enabled by the electronic health records system. The national provider […]

December 14, 2016

Legislation recently passed in Congress that President Obama is expected to sign into law is designed to better support providers working in remote and underserved regions and expand the use of telemedicine. But a major goal of the Expanding Capacity […]

October 31, 2016

Newton Medical Center in New Jersey went live in early August with an “early warning system” that helps clinicians quickly identify patients who may be in decline, as well as patients getting better. Early results at 148-bed Newton, which is […]

October 17, 2016

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has released a draft document focused on the requirements for clinical evaluation of software-as-a-medical devices (SaMD). It aims to “harmonize” U.S. policy with the guidance prepared by the International Medical Device Regulators Forum (IMDRF). […]

September 20, 2016

Harvard Medical School has launched a free, publicly accessible digital repository of medical evidence to help clinicians practice evidence-based medicine in accordance with legislation that goes into effect in 2018. The Protecting Access to Medicare Act, signed into law in […]