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Bill Siwicki

Bill Siwicki

Bill Siwicki is Managing Editor of Healthcare IT News. Bill has nearly 40 years of experience in journalism, with more than 25 years experience in healthcare IT.

By Bill Siwicki | 09:37 am | February 21, 2017
New temperature sensor is an expanded range device capable of measuring down to -200 Celsius. 
By Bill Siwicki | 09:30 am | February 21, 2017
Verato announced at HIMSS17 this week a partnership with RightPatient to together offer a cloud-based system that addresses the comprehensive challenge of patient identity – spanning every point of encounter and extending through every repository of pre-existing medical records and information, Verato said. The partnership integrates RightPatient’s biometric patient identification platform with the Verato cloud-based patient matching platform to recognize a patient automatically at the moment of encounter and link that patient to all of his or her data distributed across systems. The partnership provides enterprises a single point of convergence for the full lifecycle of patient data, according to the vendors. RightPatient’s biometric technology handles the front-end portion of the patient identity issue, which is how to accurately identify a patient and ensure retrieval of the correct medical record. RightPatient uses a biometrics and deep-learning engine that claims to eliminate errors at the point of identity capture, the vendor contended. RightPatient technology integrates with popular electronic health records systems including Epic, as well as with many patient portals, telehealth platforms and self-service applications, the vendor said. Verato’s cloud-based matching handles the back-end portion of the patient identity issue, which is the linking of all pre-existing data to the correct identity. Verato’s technology is based on a type of matching called “referential matching” that uses a universal nationwide reference database as its answer key, the vendor explained. Referential matching can link identities across systems and between enterprises, even in the presence of major data differences, time differences, errors and thin data that prevent other matching technologies from matching, Verato said.
By Bill Siwicki | 09:16 am | February 21, 2017
As part of the initial phase of the partnership, American Well partners and other providers and payers will have the opportunity to offer their services to Samsung consumers on their devices.
By Bill Siwicki | 08:33 am | February 21, 2017
The vendor’s Exa Enterprise Imaging Platform offers a diagnostic-quality zero-footprint universal viewer for DICOM and non-DICOM images.
By Bill Siwicki | 05:18 pm | February 20, 2017
The National Association for Trusted Exchange at HIMSS17 has unveiled NATE’s Blue Button Directory, which it will be demonstrating at the HIMSS17 Interoperability Showcase.
By Bill Siwicki | 05:08 pm | February 20, 2017
Omni-HealthData Insights concentrates on physician practice management, quality and patient safety, hospital patient experience and hospital performance.
By Bill Siwicki | 04:58 pm | February 20, 2017
Collaboration meant to demonstrate how natural voice assistant technology can help patients be more fully engaged in their wellness at home.
By Bill Siwicki | 03:14 pm | February 20, 2017
The population health IT vendor says streamlined enrollment into care management should improve team efficiency and initiation of care.
By Bill Siwicki | 12:23 pm | February 20, 2017
The research also found that health IT pros are trending back toward shorter work weeks.
By Bill Siwicki | 10:02 am | February 20, 2017
Trivalent Protect uses a process of file-encryption, shredding, and local or cloud storage designed to transform the properties of sensitive and regulated data to make it completely unusable to hackers.