Category: Health IT

What is cognitive load? How can we help clinicians manage it?

This article is sponsored by the Nuance Dragon Ambient eXperience. AI-driven ambient clinical intelligence (ACI) promises to help by revolutionizing patient and provider experiences with clinical documentation that writes itself. What is cognitive load…

Telehealth companies lobby for permanent controlled substance prescribing flexibilities

More than 100 health startups and medical associations are lobbying for permanent permission to prescribe controlled substances via telehealth, a permission that has been temporarily granted due to the pandemic-era flexibilities, The Wall Street Journa…

CHI asks Congress to extend safe harbor for high-deductible health plans for telehealth coverage

Omaha, Neb.-based CHI Health sent a letter to Congress on Nov. 28 urging them to continue the pandemic-era safe harbor for first-dollar high deductible health plan telehealth coverage.

Athenahealth looks to go public again

EHR vendor Athenahealth is looking to go public just 10 months after it was bought by Bain Capital and another private equity firm for $17 billion, the Boston Globe reported Nov. 28.

The most valuable health care companies of tomorrow will be technology companies

I’ve always been curious about the top 0.1 percent. Their mindsets, backgrounds, upbringing, perceptions, skills, and behavioral traits that got them there. After living through the Dot-com bubble, 9/11, Enron-WorldCom, the 2008 financial crisis,…

California hospital swaps Meditech for Oracle Cerner in $12M EHR migration

Adventist Health Mendocino Coast in Fort Bragg, Calif., is going live with a new Oracle Cerner EHR on Dec. 1.

Avera Health granted $2.5M to boost workforce through telehealth, virtual nursing

Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Avera Health has received $2.5 million from the Health Resources and Services Administration to address the workforce shortage through telehealth, virtual nursing and rural healthcare education.

California hospital moves to Epic

Sonoma (Calif.) Valley Hospital is going live with a new Epic EHR.

Hackensack’s Epic EHR move to Google will create improved interoperability

Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Health is looking to provide a huge opportunity for discoveries that can improve patient care and interoperability with its ongoing collaboration with Google Cloud, Kash Patel, executive vice president and chief d…

Brooklyn health system deals with EHR outages

One Brooklyn (N.Y.) Health experienced an EHR outage for several days last week, The City reported Nov. 25.