Epic Developing an EHR AI Assistant, but is At Least 2 Years Out
In a recent online seminar at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), Judy Faulkner, Founder of Epic, was the guest of honor with moderator Dara Mize, MD, assistant professor of Biomedical...
View ArticleWhat Can Epic Do to Help? – @EpicEMRParody Twitter Account Gone
As most of you know, as part of Fun Friday I’d regularly feature the @EpicEMRParody and the various parody tweets they’d send. Not too surprising, but the account is now gone. I haven’t heard the...
View ArticleSharing On Epic’s Care Everywhere Data Exchange Shoots Through The Roof As...
For quite some time, critics have rightly complained about the difficulty providers have faced exchanging data stored in Epic EHRs. That’s been the case despite Epic offering a proprietary...
View ArticleThe Rise of the Stupid EHR
Back in the late 90s, I read an article in a trade magazine and the piece made such an impact on me that the ideas articulated have stayed with me to this day. The article, “The Rise of the Stupid...
View ArticleMost Read Healthcare IT Today Articles in 2020
One of my favorite things to do as we move on to a new year is to look back at the past year. Needless to say, 2020 has been a crazy year that will never be forgotten here at Healthcare IT Today....
View ArticleAre We At the End of the Healthcare Interoperability Tunnel?
In a recent message I got from EHNAC, they had this great image at the start of their email: Then, they had this line below it which really caught my attention: Interoperability has been an important...
View ArticleUVA Health Deploys AI Tool To Predict COVID-19 Complications
The University of Virginia Health System has rolled out an AI-based predictive analytics tool that monitors COVID-19 patients continuously and predicts whether they are likely to take a turn for the...
View ArticleTechnology Partners Come Together To Make COVID-19 Vaccination Records Shareable
A group of large healthcare technology vendors has come together to make information on COVID-19 vaccinations more readily available. The Vaccination Credential Initiative, which is developing a...
View ArticleFDA Approves Use of AI Tool Predicting Adverse Events In ICU
The FDA has agreed to a special authorization allowing a vendor to deploy its AI tool designed to predict adverse events in hospital ICUs. The agency issued an Emergency Use Authorization for an ICU...
View ArticleSocial Media and Health IT Twitter Roundup
It’s been a while since I’ve done a Twitter roundup, so I figured why not do one today. Plus, there’s been some interesting announcements from social media companies that could impact healthcare that...
View ArticleEpic Developing an EHR AI Assistant, but is At Least 2 Years Out
In a recent online seminar at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), Judy Faulkner, Founder of Epic, was the guest of honor with moderator Dara Mize, MD, assistant professor of Biomedical...
View ArticleWhat Can Epic Do to Help? – @EpicEMRParody Twitter Account Gone
As most of you know, as part of Fun Friday I’d regularly feature the @EpicEMRParody and the various parody tweets they’d send. Not too surprising, but the account is now gone. I haven’t heard the...
View Article10x Success Rate. 2x Enrollment. Inside Duke’s Smoking Cessation Program.
Smoking cessation programs are challenging. Not just because getting people to quit is hard, but also because it is difficult to get people to enroll in programs in the first place. The Duke Smoking...
View ArticleGoogle Exploring Tool Designed to Help Patients Use Their Health Records
In recent times, Google has been working on a tool designed to help clinicians filter complicated patient information more quickly and view it in context. Now it’s thinking about doing the same thing...
View ArticleWho’s Responsible? Epic or EHR Configuration
There’s a classic software problem that many who use an EHR don’t understand. This was highlighted in a recent tweet by Dr. Graham Walker: While Epic is certainly responsible for a lot of issues with...
View ArticleCerner Agrees To Share Patient Medical Records With Life Insurance Industry...
Cerner has struck a deal in which it will let a life insurance industry data vendor access patient records. Under the terms of the deal, risk management and digital services vendor MIB will be able to...
View ArticleEpic, Anthem Strike Deal To Support Health Information Exchange
Health plan management company Anthem has struck a deal with Epic rolling out data sharing technology to health systems and providers who use the EHR vendor’s technology. Under the terms of the deal,...
View ArticleReturn to the Office – #HITsm Chat Topic
We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 6/4 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by John Lynn (@techguy) from @hcitoday on the...
View ArticleEpic Requires Employees to Return to the Office by July 19 and Epic UGM Will...
News recently broke that Epic will be requiring their employees to return to the office starting July 19th. After Epic’s failed return to the office situation in August 2020, I think we all realized...
View ArticleIs Cerner an Acquisition Target for Microsoft and Google?
Thanks for my friend Shereese Maynard for pointing out this article that suggests Cerner might be an acquisition target soon. The article makes the salacious statement that “Cerner is a wounded...
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