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Kat Jercich

Kat Jercich

Kat Jercich is the Senior Editor at Healthcare IT News. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Advocate, and others. Previously, she was Vice President and Managing Editor at Rewire.News.

By Kat Jercich | 10:26 am | September 01, 2020
Other major challenges include remote patient monitoring, interoperability, real-time data analytics, work-from-home resources and patient surveillance, according to a new KLAS report.
By Kat Jercich | 03:09 pm | August 31, 2020
Stakeholders stressed the importance of a patient-identification strategy in an ONC working session Monday.
By Kat Jercich | 09:24 am | August 31, 2020
A wide-ranging JAMA study showed that early adopters of direct scheduling were more often young, white and commercially insured.  
By Kat Jercich | 02:59 pm | August 28, 2020
Although AI documentation assistants will likely be integral to future primary care consultations, they'll still need to be supervised by a human. 
By Kat Jercich | 01:19 pm | August 27, 2020
In July, a Maryland federal judge issued an injunction blocking the FDA's in-person abortion requirements for the duration of the pandemic.
By Kat Jercich | 12:23 pm | August 27, 2020
The CDC this week issued controversial guidelines saying people without symptoms may not need to seek testing, even if they've been exposed to someone with the virus.
By Kat Jercich | 12:13 pm | August 26, 2020
Last year, the organizations embarked on a decade-long partnership to advance the health system's AI and ML innovations. Then the novel coronavirus began to spread.
By Kat Jercich | 02:24 pm | August 25, 2020
A case report published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association shows how algorithms can be used to augment the contact-tracing process for COVID-19 patients.
By Kat Jercich | 10:22 am | August 25, 2020
The Bluetooth-enabled case has sensors that detect when users take their daily pill, triggering customized phone alerts.

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