Tag: Clinical

September 6, 2017

Health Catalyst on Tuesday launched its Data Operating System, a new platform aimed at taking its analytics, clinical decision support and outcomes improvement to transform the role that enterprise data warehouse products can play in healthcare. “The traditional view of […]

July 26, 2017

Hospitals are planning to ramp up the use of robots in the next one to three years — and the momentum will include clinical applications as well as automating simple tasks. “Robots can deliver value by automating manual and laborious […]

June 27, 2017

It was fascinating to hear two healthcare industry leaders present on the topic of personalized medicine on June 15, at the Health IT Summit in Boston, sponsored by Healthcare Informatics. John Halamka, M.D., the CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical […]

April 25, 2017

Like all healthcare CIOs, Joel Vengco, chief information officer at Springfield, Massachusetts-based Baystate Health, has no shortage of pressing projects competing for his attention. Whether it’s working to drive operational efficiencies across the $2.5 billion health system, improving the usability […]

March 15, 2017

Precision medicine holds the key to better health. And as the industry moves more toward value-based care, its evidence-based principles can help providers ease into the transition. “It’s a big step to go from trial-and-error medicine to evidence-based medicine,” said […]

March 8, 2017

A study of hospital emergency departments has found that hospitals can significantly improve both the quality of care and operational efficiency when their physicians access a patient’s medical records in the health information exchange (HIE). Specifically, the study—based on the […]

February 28, 2017

AT&T and Zywie Inc. announced at HIMSS17 that AT&T will provide wireless connectivity for ZywiePro, Zywie’s cardiac remote monitoring system. The device will run on AT&T Control Center. AT&T and Zywie are looking to offer highly secure, accessible monitoring for […]

January 26, 2017

Although electronic health records (EHRs) are supposed to expose duplicate testing and thus reduce costs, new research has found that physicians with EHR access ordered more tests than their non-EHR counterparts. The research, recently published in the American Journal of […]

December 29, 2016

On Dec. 27, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a final guidance addressing the cyber vulnerabilities in medical devices, outlining how manufacturers should maintain security of internet-connected devices such as pacemakers and insulin pumps. With the guidelines, the FDA […]

December 2, 2016

In an editorial this summer published in Personalized Medicine, authors from The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research and J. William Langston, M.D., chief scientific officer and founder of The Parkinson’s Institute, outlined a strategy to advance precision medicine […]

November 29, 2016

Falling demand for blood is creating financial challenges and fueling uncertainty for organizations depended on to maintain the nation’s blood supply, according to a new study sponsored by the federal government. Changes in clinical practice and medical technology have lessened […]

November 14, 2016

IBM Watson Health and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have launched a five-year $50 million research project to delve into cancer drug resistance. Researchers will study thousands of drug-resistant tumors and draw on Watson’s computational and machine learning […]

November 10, 2016

The advent of telemedicine has introduced an unprecedented degree of convenience and immediacy, data sharing and communications among care teams and resource availability for value-based, patient-centered care. But ensuring uniformly high-quality telehealth requires providers, technology vendors and ethicists to address […]

November 9, 2016

It was fascinating to be at the CHIME16 CIO Fall Forum in Phoenix last week, where approximately 850 attendees, of which some 460 CIOs/College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) members roamed the conference halls of the JW Marriott Phoenix […]

November 8, 2016

Medicare is spending about $500 million a year on genetic blood tests that offer little or no clinical benefit and may be unnecessary, according to a study in the Journal of Hospital Medicine. The report, by a University of Michigan […]

September 29, 2016

MIT healthcare economist Joseph Doyle spends his time measuring the returns on healthcare spending and outcomes with the goals of identifying value and waste in the $3 trillion U.S. healthcare system along with helping to create a higher-quality, more cost-effective […]

September 22, 2016

So far in 2016, third-party data breaches have impacted 4.5 million patients, indicating that third-party business associates pose an alarming risk to patient data, according to a new report from Protenus and DataBreaches.net. Breaches involving business associates or vendors accounted […]

August 25, 2016

Stroke is a leading cause of disability and death in the United States, affecting more than 795,000 Americans every year. But what if doctors were better able to predict who is likely to have a stroke, providing greater opportunity for […]

June 30, 2016

A new study on electronic health records (EHRs) from a multi-university team, including Cleveland State University (CSU), has highlighted several gaps and challenges associated with the use of such systems. The implementation of EHRs was meant to better standardize care, […]

June 8, 2016

A recent data brief from the Office for the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), based on information from the 2015 edition of the American Hospital Association’s (AHA) annual survey IT supplement, reveals that year over year, not that much […]