Click to learn more about author Piyush Goel. The health care system today is in the midst of a much-needed technological revolution. Considering how medical errors are now the number three killer in the United States every year, this overhaul is sorely needed. Furthermore, COVID-19 stretched the health care system thin over the past 16 months. To many, it is a wake-up call on how our health care system needs the […]
MITRE Announces Compass, a New Application to Collect Common Oncology Data
A recent press release reports, “MITRE announced Compass™, a first-in-class, open-source application to collect minimal common oncology data elements, or mCODE™, from electronic health records (EHR), today at the HIMSS19 Global Conference & Exhibition. Only three percent of adult cancer patients participate in clinical trials, limiting access to high quality data across multiple types of […]
Nuance Unveils AI-Powered Exam Room Where Clinical Documentation Writes Itself
According to a recent press release, “Nuance Communications, Inc. today unveiled an entirely new category of AI-powered healthcare information technology – Ambient Clinical Intelligence (ACI). This new, disruptive AI innovation from Nuance will power the exam room of the future and reinvent the doctor-patient experience in healthcare. Live, from booth #3345, Nuance will offer HIMSS […]
Push Not Pull: Using Data Science to Improve OR Operations
Click to learn more about author Sanjeev Agrawal. While virtually every hospital has implemented a version of an electronic health record (EHR) that tracks the patient journey, most hospital administrators still use the tool in a “pull” manner; they start with something in mind and then look for the data. This causes problems when people aren’t […]
Allscripts Launches Industry’s First Machine Learning EHR
by Angela Guess A recent press release states, “Allscripts Healthcare Solutions unveiled its new electronic health record (EHR), Avenel™, at the annual HIMSS conference today. Mobile-first and cloud-based, Avenel creates a community-wide shared patient record, uses machine learning to reduce time for clinical documentation and is designed to work like an app instead of traditional […]
SailPoint Empowers Healthcare Organizations with Identity
by Angela Guess A recent press release reports, “SailPoint, the leader in enterprise identity management, today introduced the SailPoint IdentityIQTM Integration Module for Epic. For healthcare organizations, an electronic health record (EHR) system like Epic is one of the most important applications to incorporate into a governance-based approach to managing identity. This new integration module […]