Today's Top 20 Health IT Stories
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Odds of patient complications increase by 29% when physicians don't follow EHR alerts, study suggests
Providers who adhere to clinical decision support alerts embedded in EHRs report better clinical outcomes for their patients than those who don't, according to a study published in the American Journal of Managed Care. - 8/16/18 -
Most medical device cybersecurity issues attributed to user authentication, report finds
The most common cybersecurity vulnerability among medical devices relates to user authentication, which is often the first line of defense against a hacker, according to a MedCrypt report. - 8/16/18 -
Deloitte: 7 challenges to 'Internet of Medical Things' adoption
The Internet of Medical Things market is expected to be worth $158.1 billion by 2022, but a few key challenges are standing in the way of its continued growth, according to a Deloitte report. - 8/16/18 -
SwedishAmerican hospital in Illinois goes live on Epic after 3 years of prepwork
Rockford, Ill.-based SwedishAmerican implemented an Epic EHR July 1. - 8/16/18 -
Epic to host 1st conference for providers who don't use its EHR; Google's sister company DeepMind develops AI for eye care & more — 11 health IT key notes
Here are 11 recent news updates on health IT companies: - 8/16/18 -
All of US News' top 20 hospitals use Epic
U.S. News & World Report released its Best Hospitals rankings for 2018-19 on Aug. 14, and Becker's Hospital Review looked into which EHRs the top 20 institutions are using — across the board, the answer was Epic. - 8/16/18 -
Public hospitals: Redefining the standard of care through imaging innovation
There is a popular perception that patients at public hospitals tend to receive lower quality care than those at privately owned healthcare organizations. - 8/16/18 -
Harvard Data Science Initiative hits 1 year: Here's its next steps
The Harvard Data Science Initiative is celebrating its first-year successes and planning its next steps. - 8/16/18 -
What types of PHI are office-based physicians sharing? CDC report finds out
The CDC released its first national estimates of how office-based physicians are electronically sharing patient health information with other providers Aug. 15. - 8/16/18 -
Best Buy expands work in senior healthcare with $800M GreatCall acquisition
Best Buy signed a definitive agreement to purchase GreatCall, a provider of connected health and personal emergency response services targeting the senior population, for $800 million in cash Aug. 15. - 8/16/18 -
GeBBS makes Inc. 5000 ten years straight
In a recent press release, GeBBS Healthcare Solutions, a leading technology-enabled provider of revenue cycle management (RCM) solutions, announced that it has been named to the Inc. 5000’s 2018 List of the Fastest-Growing Private Companies in the country. - 8/15/18 -
Hire faster and smarter with open networks
I recently read a piece on this site that laid out the hiring plans of several healthcare facilities, and how they’re working to find solutions to the ongoing issue of finding new talent while retaining their existing workforce. - 8/15/18 -
With the arrival of hurricane season, hospitals must ensure for real-time data availability even in the wake of a natural disaster
Today’s hospitals and health systems are benefitting from an explosion of information technology to improve patient care, run their facilities and keep costs contained. - 8/15/18 -
Diamonds in the rough: Unstructured clinical data buries valuable information for population health management and analytics
The promise of precision medicine and population health analytics to revolutionize healthcare is clear. - 8/15/18 -
Michigan interoperability collaboration, 4medica partner to launch patient matching solution
The Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services implemented 4medica's master patient index technology that aims to ensure incoming data is matched to the correct patient record. - 8/15/18 -
Health communication-focused startup Klara raises $11.5M
Klara, a health technology startup focused on communication, raised $11.5 million in series A financing round, according to Tech Crunch. - 8/15/18 -
Google's sister company DeepMind develops AI to triage eye care patients
Alphabet's artificial intelligence arm DeepMind published results of the first phase of its research partnership with Moorfields Eye Hospital in London in Nature Medicine Aug. 13. - 8/15/18 -
NIH awards consortium $6.5M to create predictive models for precision medicine
The National Institutes of Health awarded a consortium of universities $6.5 million to establish a technology resource center, dubbed the Center for Reproducible Biomedical Modeling. - 8/15/18 -
Amazon, 23andMe among 500+ entities registered to use CMS' Blue Button 2.0 API
More than 500 groups have registered to build apps using Blue Button 2.0, an open application programming interface tool developed by CMS, a senior White House official told Politico's Morning eHealth newsletter. - 8/15/18 -
To address the physician shortage, Japan plans 10 'AI hospitals' — Here's what they will look like
The Japanese government thinks it found a way to curb the physician shortage, Nikkei Asian Review reports. - 8/15/18