Category: Health IT

Analysis: Why Alexa’s Bedside Manner Is Bad For Health Care

Amazon’s personal assistant is gaining medical skills to provide coaching or transmit and monitor patient data. Besides the loss of the human touch, virtual medicine pursued in the name of business efficiency or profit bodes ill.

HIMSS Comments on ONC Interoperability Regulation Focus on Capitalizing on Innovation and Patient Access

HIMSS submitted its public comment letter on the 21st Century Cures Act and the ONC Health IT Certification Program focusing on leveraging ideas that seek to put our health system and stakeholders on a path to transform healthcare.

HIMSS Responds to the CMS Interoperability and Patient Access Proposed Rule

HIMSS submitted a public comment letter to CMS utilizing its membership’s expertise to offer feedback on potential ways to improve access to, and the quality of, information that Americans need to make better-informed healthcare decisions.

Nearly 1 in 3 eye care patients’ EHR may pose medication discrepancy, study finds

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Physician viewpoint: Surgeons ‘shielded’ from certain paperwork, administrative tasks that cause burnout

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HIMSS’ EHR association raises concerns about ONC’s proposed interoperability rule

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Modernizing U.S. Public Health Data Systems and Core Infrastructure

Ask your senators and representatives to support efforts to modernize the nation’s public health data systems and core infrastructure.

How this Kansas medical center is using telehealth to improve patient outcomes

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HSHS St. Joseph’s Hospital to implement Epic EHR: 3 notes

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Cerner’s first shareholder dividend 20% higher than expected

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