In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic in mid-March, Dr. Mamdouh Riad, a solo practitioner in Hyannis, Massachusetts, began to take notice that he would not be able to see patients in the office as usual and had many patients…
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Getting to accurate electronic clinical quality measures can be a challenge
Electronic clinical quality measures were created years ago as part of the federal EHR Incentive Programs, or meaningful use. At the time, eCQMs held the promise of automatically extracting the discrete data elements required to capture a specific measures of…
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HITN APAC eBook: Dealing with the COVID-19 outbreak through digital health in APAC
With the pandemic having originated in the APAC region, the upcoming HITN APAC eBook titled, “Dealing with the COVID-19 outbreak through digital health in APAC”, begins with how various governments approached the containment of the COVID-19 outbreak through a combination…
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Cerner, AWS partner to make COVID-19 data available to researchers
Healthcare technology company Cerner and Amazon Web Services are teaming up to offer researchers fight the COVID-19 pandemic access to de-identified patient data. WHY IT MATTERS Stored on Cerner’s HealtheDataLab platform, which is hosted on AWS, the de-identified patient data…
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HIMSS CEO: Cancelling conference was 'heartbreaking,' but HIMSS20 Digital is set for growth
This past week, just days before it was scheduled to begin – with a sitting president, for the first time ever, addressing its opening session – HIMSS announced the cancellation of its 2020 Global Health Conference & Exhibition. In the…
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How integration of SDOH data is helping improve opioid response, pop health
As hospitals and health systems have become more aware of the key value of social determinants of health, the questions have shifted somewhat. Now, many providers and public health agencies are focused on more nuts and bolts questions: related to…
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