Brookhaven, Miss.-based King’s Daughter Medical Center has decommissioned its legacy EHR, Meditech Magic, and migrated more than 70,000 patient records to an independent clinical data repository.
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Walmart launches virtual primary care for its employees
Walmart is expanding its virtual primary care options for its employees nationwide through a partnership with Included Health.
Health systems experience efficiency gains with cloud EHR migrations
As hospitals and health systems begin moving their EHRs and workloads to the cloud, organizations are beginning to see improvements in efficiencies, up-front infrastructure costs and cybersecurity.
15 states that mandate surgical smoke evacuation
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed A.B. 1007 into law which requires healthcare facilities to use all tools feasible to remove surgical smoke plumes — making it the 15th state in the nation to do so.
California is 1st state to require pharmacists to report errors
California is the first state to require pharmacists to report every prescription mistake.
2 men with guns arrested at New York hospital
Two men with loaded handguns were arrested Oct. 8 at Rochester (N.Y.) General Hospital, CBS affiliate WROC reported.
1st children's hospital adopts virtual nursing
Virtual nurses will soon beam into a U.S. children’s hospital for the first time.
Top 6 health IT threats, per 200 CIOs
Clinician burnout is the No. 1 threat to hospitals and health systems, according to a survey of more than 200 CIOs and other IT leaders.
9 policies to reduce burnout, per employees
Organizations that adopt a certain set of policies may be able to significantly improve the well-being of their employees and reduce burnout, according to new survey findings from the American Heart Association.
Health systems prioritize AI roles as talent shortage looms
Harvey Castro, MD, faculty of the American Board of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, said a growing number of healthcare organizations are interested in hiring individuals in high-level AI roles, but there may not be enough talent to fill those rol…
