- Illinois procurement board recommends voiding UI Health EHR contract with EpicThe board couldn’t rule out conflict of interest in the $62 million contract signed between Epic and the academic medical center to overhaul its legacy EHR and billing systems. ... read more
- UnityPoint Health System hit with cyberattack affecting 16,000 patientsHospital is advising patients to monitor their explanation of benefits statements to keep an eye suspicious-looking activity. ... read more
- How one community hospital earned HIMSS EMRAM Stage 7Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital shares lessons learned on the strategies it set and the challenges overcame to hit the highest level of IT adoption. ... read more
- Nearly a year since WannaCry and all 200 National Health Service trusts failed cybersecurity assessmentsSome NHS units failed because the Cyber Essentials Plus sets a high bar, while others simply have not patched their systems appropriately, the U.K. Commons Public Accounts committee found. ... read more
- Comcast partners with Independence Health to create digital health companyCompanies say the cross-sector partnership will create open source platform that it hopes other tech companies will use to innovate. ... read more
- Black Book: Epic, Cerner, Meditech take top scores in new EHR survey but Amazon and Google pose threat to marketPatients are increasingly seeking tech-savvy healthcare providers but the majority are not budgeting for tools that improve engagement or communication with consumers in 2018, opening the doors for major disruption. ... read more
- Can Lean methodology help improve EHR documentation?Mayo Clinic researchers write in an AHIMA report that the process technique could improve electronic health record efficiency and overall satisfaction by users. ... read more
- TriHealth hospitals pay $10 million to adopt IBM Watson Health enterprise imagingThe two-hospital system hopes the investment will help it update its PACS and improve the workflow, data, efficiency and quality of its imaging initiatives. ... read more
- How a single source of truth database is helping one health system drive analytics successHealth Quest concluded it needed one database to help inform its approach to various clinical, financial and operational initiatives. ... read more
- DEA partners with states to share prescription data in opioid fightThe latest federal move in the fight to combat opioid abuse will have states sharing PDMP data with the DEA, and the agency sharing its database of 80 million annual drug transactions. ... read more
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