From entering into an agreement with Google Cloud to making its EHR system more compatible with Apple users, here are seven updates on Epic’s operations, software products and partnerships reported by Becker’s Hospital Review in November.
Category: Health IT
A New Use for Dating Apps: Chasing STIs
For contact tracers of sexually transmitted infections, telephones and text messages have become ineffective. Dating apps increasingly are their best bet for informing people of their exposure risks.
Kettering Health to offer virtual breastfeeding support through partnership
Nest Collaborative, a virtual breastfeeding support platform, has partnered with Kettering (Ohio) Health to provide telehealth breastfeeding support to patients giving birth at the system’s maternity centers.
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.
