Category: Health IT

Teladoc, Microsoft to bring generative AI to telehealth

Teladoc is partnering with Microsoft to integrate its artificial intelligence services, which can automate clinical documentation, on the company’s telehealth platform. 

Why oncology is ripe for digital innovation

In every aspect of our lives, whether it is online banking or shopping, we rely on technology to make things better, more convenient, and more efficient. Yet in health care, and particularly cancer care, that is not the case. Oncology has been revoluti…

What’s going on at the VA? 48 Oracle Cerner implementation updates from this year

In 2018, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs tapped Cerner to overhaul its EHR system. Recently, a series of slowdowns, legislative spats and open letters have again turned attention to the VA’s EHR overhaul process.

Why digital health startups still need banking partners like SVB and First Republic

The recent failures of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and First Republic Bank understandably spurred concern among industry and regulatory leaders about the health of the overall banking industry. Certainly, investigating the reasons leading to their collap…

Why Epic is opposing new interoperability, transparency rules

Epic, the nation’s largest EHR vendor, opposed some proposed changes by ONC that the agency says will improve interoperability, healthcare data exchange and health IT transparency.

Cleveland Clinic bets on telehealth to reduce costs, reach younger patients

Even though telehealth appointments have continued to decline since the COVID-19 pandemic,  Cleveland Clinic said it is still betting on virtual care to lower costs and to reach patients who are more comfortable accessing care online, Ideastream P…

CommonWell now shares electronic health data for 62% of population

CommonWell Health Alliance’s network surpassed 200 million individuals nationwide, which corresponds to sharing electronic health data for about 62 percent of the U.S. population.

Lowering hallucination results with ChatGPT

The advances of AI, specifically models like GPT-4 from OpenAI, have given rise to powerful tools capable of generating human-like text responses. These models are invaluable in myriad contexts, from customer service and support systems to educational …

Hospitals, health systems getting big grants for EHRs

Small, rural and safety-net hospitals across the U.S. are receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal funding and community grants to purchase and install EHRs.

VA opposes stricter oversight for Cerner EHR rollout

The Department of Veterans Affairs is pushing back against legislation that would require it to report codified improvement metrics for any new deployments of the Oracle Cerner EHR system, Washington Technology reported July 13.