Amazon Web Services on Monday announced the launch of a new initiative to help organizations worldwide build IT-powered social and healthcare programs to help patients in underserved communities. WHY IT MATTERS AWS is pledging $40 million over three years…
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Gartner CIO report: IT spending expected to increase for cyber, analytics, cloud
A Gartner survey of nearly 2,000 chief information officers found that 2021 will be a race to digital innovation, with organizations seeking to keep up the momentum from COVID-19 responses. The 2021 Gartner CIO Agenda survey found that the…
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Hospital Automation: Making Data Meaningful
How do clinicians handle the overwhelming amount of patient data that’s collected during care delivery in the hospital—especially when faced with a high volume of patients? With disjointed data collected from various sources and a lack of connection between care…
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Synthetic data boosts accuracy and speed of brain tumor surgery CDS
Credit: Michigan Medicine/Synthetaic Michigan Medicine was working toward a goal: to develop a decision support tool that would improve pathologists’ ability to accurately diagnose brain tumors in the operating room, allowing them to both diagnose more quickly and more accurately….
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CareCentrix files corporate espionage lawsuit against Signify Health
The post-acute care company CareCentrix filed a complaint in U.S. district court against Marcus Lanznar and Signify Health, accusing Lanznar of corporate espionage and theft of confidential information. “CareCentrix entrusted Lanznar with its highest levels of confidential information, strategies,…
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American Medical Association releases CPT codes for coronavirus vaccines
The American Medical Association (AMA) has released unique current procedural terminology (CPT) codes for each of two new coronavirus vaccines, to enable better tracking, reporting and analysis. AMA’s CPT Editorial Panel has approved two new vaccine administration codes that are…
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HIMSS CEO: How to capitalize on an 'exponential growth' in digital innovation
As we focus this month on the topic of Leadership Fundamentals for Digital Transformation, we wanted to ask one healthcare leader – Hal Wolf, CEO of HIMSS, parent company of Healthcare IT News – for his thoughts on the fundamental…
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Patients with comorbid behavioral health conditions have longer inpatient stays
A report released this week from the Center for Health Information and Analysis found that patients with comorbid behavioral health conditions had readmission rates that were nearly twice as high as those without one. The report, which examined CHIA’s data…
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Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS FT awarded Stage 7 O-EMRAM
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS FT (GOSH) in London has been awarded Stage 7 on the O-EMRAM by HIMSS this week, making it the first hospital in England to achieve the validation. O-EMRAM, or the Outpatients Electronic Medical…
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Cerner unveils new interoperability tools, as CEO Brent Shafer says 'innovation is accelerating'
At the 35th annual Cerner Health Conference, which launched virtually on Tuesday, CEO Brent Shafer described the many ways the company has been helping providers around the world deliver high-quality healthcare more efficiently during the COVID-19 pandemic. “We created tools…
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