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By Benjamin Harris | 01:45 pm | April 17, 2019
New research shows that the ways hospitals tap into EHR information varies from vendor to vendor.
By HIMSS TV | 02:40 pm | April 16, 2019
Defense Healthcare Management Systems' Stacy Cummings and the DHA's Major General Lee Payne and Pat Flanders discuss the giant change management problem and infrastructure needs for an enterprise EHR implementation.   
By Dean Koh | 04:00 am | April 16, 2019
China’s National Health Commission (NHC) officially launched a capacity building platform designed for community-level healthcare services, according to a report by Xinhua News on April 15.  At the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China held in October 2017, a report summarised that community-level healthcare services should be improved and the work of general practitioners strengthened. In 2018, the NHC launched a capacity building and training program for community level talents and was preparing to establish a capacity building platform combining online and offline efforts.  “Talent team building is the key component to enhancing community level healthcare services”, said Wang Hesheng, NHC deputy director. In February this year, Fang Laiying, a member of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and vice-president of the Chinese Hospital Association, said that despite the rapid development of China’s health industry at the grass-roots level, the scarcest resource in the medical industry currently in China are medical talents catering to the needs at the grass-roots level, not professors. Fang added that cultivating a grass-root talent team has been a top priority in the reform of the medical health industry.
By Armin Scheuer | 06:07 am | April 12, 2019
The Health Innovation Hub will be the Ministry's bridge to the "digital scene," said health minister Jens Spahn.
By Tom Sullivan | 12:22 pm | April 11, 2019
Infosec is a patient safety issue and it’s critical that customers trust you. But many health systems have been investing too little for years. It’s time for that to change.
By Mike Miliard | 04:05 pm | April 10, 2019
AMIA CEO Doug Fridsma says healthcare should simplify its approach to data exchange: keeping a laser focus on worthwhile use cases, sharing first and standardizing later, while also taking some cues from the basic APIs that power the World Wide Web.
By Nathan Eddy | 10:36 am | April 10, 2019
The scheme preyed upon hundreds of thousands of elderly and disabled patients, DOJ says. 
By Tom Sullivan | 04:02 pm | April 09, 2019
The EHR vendor is also undergoing operational improvement initiatives, officials say.
By HIMSS TV | 12:16 pm | April 09, 2019
HIMSS Vice President Tom Leary details how policy changes are advancing interoperability and offers insight into information blocking, innovation and potential changes to HIPAA.