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'More technology is not better': Where CommonSpirit's CIO is focused next
Daniel Barchi, senior executive vice president and CIO of Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health, sees digital technology transforming healthcare. But not necessarily through more applications and IT spend.
Mass General Brigham to integrate triage AI across system
Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham has partnered with Annalise.ai to develop and deploy AI-enabled diagnostic products.
HHS warns of remote patient monitoring scam
HHS is warning Americans to be on the lookout for a remote patient monitoring scam.
A new treatment for 'widow-maker' heart attacks
Researchers at the NCH Rooney Heart Institute in Naples, Fla., are leaning on a new therapeutic treatment for “widow-maker” heart attacks: supersaturated oxygen therapy.
Which primary care providers use EHRs the least?
Primary care providers who practice at community health centers spend less time in EHRs than counterparts who work elsewhere, a study in JAMA Network Open found.
Hospitals turn toward 'digital twins'
Health systems in Pennsylvania and New Jersey have turned to electronic models, or “digital twins,” that allow clinicians to test the treatment on patients before enacting them at the bedside.
States with the most rural hospital closures
Since 2005, 104 rural hospitals have closed and more than 600 additional rural hospitals — 30% of all rural hospitals in the U.S. — are at risk of closing in the near future, according to the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform.
Cerner in the last 30 days
Oracle Cerner, the nation’s second-largest EHR company by acute hospital share, had a busy past month signing hospitals and working on government contracts. Here are nine times Becker’s reported on the vendor in the last 30 days.
UK reports 1st human case of new swine flu strain
Health officials in the U.K. have confirmed the country’s first human case of a new swine flu variant typically found in pigs.
California hospital resumes ambulance traffic 8 days after cyberattack
Tri-City Medical Center in Oceanside, Calif., has reinstated its EHR platform and resumed ambulance admissions after being hit by a cyberattack Nov. 9 that forced its systems offline, KPBS reported Nov. 27.
