Today's Top 20 Health IT Articles
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Cerner's year in review: 5 biggest stories in 2020
Kansas City, Mo.-based Cerner made headlines this year amid its wearables partnership with Amazon and public stance on interoperability.
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Allscripts appoints 9 female leaders
Chicago-based Allscripts tapped nine women as executive leaders in 2020.
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Allscripts updates EHRs to help with COVID-19 vaccine administration
Allscripts streamlined its EHR software to allow providers to record and coordinate their COVID-19 vaccine administration data on a single platform.
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'We know more can be done': AMA calls on 6 social media CEOs to combat vaccine misinformation
The American Medical Association sent a letter Dec. 21 to the CEOs of six social media giants, urging them to increase efforts to dispel misinformation and disinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine on their platforms.
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Optum Ventures, Centene join $18M funding round for health data interoperability company
Diameter Health, a data optimization company focused on interoperability for healthcare organizations, on Dec. 17 closed an $18 million series B financing round.
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Why tech + empathy should be the CIO's new approach to employee health
CIOs ramped up initiatives this year to prioritize and support employees' mental health and well-being as social distancing and isolation due to the pandemic altered the traditional workplace, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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Philips makes $2.8B acquisition to strengthen cardiac business: 5 details
Philips plans to purchase a remote cardiac diagnostics and monitoring technology company for $2.8 billion.
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HHS updates HIPAA guidance for health information exchanges sharing PHI: 4 details
HHS issued new guidance on HIPAA to allow health information exchanges to share protected health information for public health purposes.
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Mass General Brigham, Tufts Medical Center COVID-19 vaccine signup systems crash from heavy traffic
Mass General Brigham administrators shut down the Boston-based health system's online signup system for COVID-19 vaccines on Dec. 16 after a massive influx of employees overwhelmed the website causing it to crash, The Boston Globe reports.
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Officials shut down fake Moderna, Regeneron websites that allegedly stole users' info for cyberattacks
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland has taken possession of two domain names claiming to be the websites of actual biotech companies Moderna and Regeneron but instead were fraudulent websites that allegedly stole users' info for phishing and malware attacks.
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HHS begins daily COVID-19 snapshot reports with new data
HHS began publishing daily data reports on the COVID-19 outbreak, including previously unpublished information about the virus' spread.
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Johns Hopkins develops COVID-19 vaccine data dashboard: 4 details
Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University created a COVID-19 vaccine data dashboard to track the administration of various vaccines across the U.S. by state.
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The Solarwinds breach — What do CIOs need to do now?
Solarwinds, a major supplier of network security and management software to governments, private industry, and industry titans like FireEye and Microsoft, was found to have been compromised.
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Mount Sinai marketing staffer's vaccination, Instagram photos spark backlash
New York City-based Mount Sinai caught flak this week after a marketing staffer posted Instagram photos of himself receiving the COVID-19 vaccine before some front-line workers, according to a Politico report.
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7 hospitals, healthcare organizations seeking marketing execs
Seven healthcare organizations that recently posted job listings seeking marketing executives are listed below.
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Reliable and accessible medical equipment data: A foundation for improving healthcare outcomes
While the frenzy to procure ventilators has subsided, and fatality rates in intensive care have decreased using basic treatments, it is still important to recognize the role of medical equipment in the pandemic response. Ventilators, infusion pumps, and patient monitors provide continue to be critical to the response. In general, imagine where healthcare systems would be without modern infusion pumps, anesthesia machines, MRI machines, x-ray systems, ultrasound machines, and patient monitors. -
UCHealth gives workers wearables to track health after COVID-19 vaccine
Some frontline workers at UCHealth were given wearable body sensors to track their health after receiving their COVID-19 vaccine, the Aurora, Colo.-based health system said Dec. 17.
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WHO, YouTube launch PSA on fighting COVID-19 fatigue this holiday season
The World Health Organization and YouTube partnered to roll out an animated PSA video encouraging people to maintain COVID-19 safety protocols throughout the holiday season.
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5 healthcare marketing execs share their digital strategy for 2021
As tumultuous 2020 comes to a close, healthcare marketers are looking forward to next year and determining the best ways to reach patients via strategic digital messaging.
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Brigham and Women's Hospital newsletter revealed 880 recipient emails
An October newsletter emailed from Boston-based Brigham and Women's Hospital inadvertently revealed the emails of its 880 recipients, the hospital said.