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Dr. Daniel J. Nigrin, senior vice president and CIO at Boston Children’s Hospital, will take over in January.
The Federally Qualified Health Center didn’t let COVID-19 stand in the way of a successful EHR implementation. Here’s a step-by-step look at how they did it.
Data from a real-time location system, covering nearly 4.3 million square feet, offers the ability to see patients and staff who may have come into proximity with an infected person.
The workforce is embracing technology to improve patient outcomes in areas such as barcode medicine and sepsis, says Dr. Afzal Chaudhry, CMIO at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundations Trust in the UK.
Although "technology can be a great equalizer," it can also be used to further inequities, said panelists at HLTH VRTL 2020.
Rather than trying to replace in-person care, telehealth in the future will complement and enhance it, said Amwell's Roy Schoenberg, during a conversation with Google Cloud's Aashima Gupta.
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Nuance has developed tools that reduce the burden of clinical documentation and thus clinician burnout, says Frederik Brabant, the company's VP of International Healthcare Operations.
Amwell told Healthcare It News that it believes the claims lack merit and that it intends to "defend against them vigorously."
Jason Gorevic and Glen Tullman see the deal as a way to offer a longitudinal relationship between clinicians and patients, bringing doctors, digital tools and data science together for better health.
