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Epic hit with class-action lawsuit over overtime pay
The suit alleges that up to 1,000 former and present quality assurance should have earned overtime pay during a three-year period before the suit's filing.
By Anne Zieger • Dec. 9, 2013 -
HIPAA slows use of big data to enhance care
Despite growth in electronic health information, most data resides in silos, making it hard to use for quality improvement and cost savings.
By Anne Zieger • Dec. 6, 2013 -
Trendline
Artificial intelligence
Amid mounting interest and investment in the space, it's clear AI’s applications in healthcare will only continue to grow.
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Deep Dive
5 reasons why hospitals are avoiding iPads
Apple's iPad being used at many hospitals to streamline care and make life easier for clinicians—but it hasn't taken over healthcare just yet.
By Anne Zieger • Dec. 4, 2013 -
Signups on Healthcare.gov poised to surge
Sign-ups on the Healthcare.gov website quadrupled between October.
By Anne Zieger • Dec. 3, 2013 -
GE Healthcare launches cloud-based collaboration tool for imaging
The new tool will help care teams share information through on-demand medical imaging apps.
By Anne Zieger • Dec. 3, 2013 -
CPOE systems still difficult to use
It has taken a long time, but computerized physician order entry has gone mainstream.
By Anne Zieger • Dec. 3, 2013 -
34 Chicago-area hospitals to launch HIE
The hospitals expect to launch the network, which is using federally-developed Direct technology, early next year.
By Anne Zieger • Dec. 2, 2013 -
Bill seeks to integrate digital health into federal healthcare
The bill's ultimate goal is to recommend how to integrate digital health into Medicare, Medicaid and other federal healthcare programs.
By Anne Zieger • Dec. 2, 2013 -
Deep Dive
24 Twitter hashtags the healthcare industry needs to follow
Knowing the most popular Twitter hashtag terms used by health leaders can turn the platform into a much more powerful tool.
By Anne Zieger • Dec. 2, 2013 -
Tracking technology a boon for hospital bed management
According to experts, some hospitals aren't aware of where patients are at all times.
By Anne Zieger • Nov. 26, 2013 -
Kaiser reports second data loss incident
The data loss occurred when a USB drive containing patient information went missing.
By Anne Zieger • Nov. 26, 2013 -
Telemedicine consults may cut medication errors at rural EDs
Rural ED doctors made med administration errors only 3% of the time when they worked with a remote teleconsulting physician.
By Anne Zieger • Nov. 25, 2013 -
Federal officials work to boost rural health IT use
ONC rural health officials outline goals for rural health IT, including extending local tech support to those early in the Meaningful Use program.
By Anne Zieger • Nov. 22, 2013 -
Large health organizations come together for research venture
The group of institutions hopes to develop a shared data infrastructure which researchers can use to improve to improve treatment.
By Anne Zieger • Nov. 21, 2013 -
Doctors' info compromised in Anthem data breach
Physicians' personal information was posted live online for more than 24 hours last month.
By Anne Zieger • Nov. 21, 2013 -
CMS looks for test EMRs to measure Meaningful Use Stage 2 criteria
CMS will run a system matching providers with different EMRs than they own to see that it can handle the transition-of-care objective.
By Anne Zieger • Nov. 19, 2013 -
CT hospitals use surveillance video to avoid patient falls
During the first year of one hospital's video surveillance program, monitored rooms experienced just one fall.
By Anne Zieger • Nov. 18, 2013 -
Hospitals need to build up behavioral health EMRs
1 in 8 emergency department visits are for mental health and/or substance abuse problems in adults.
By Anne Zieger • Nov. 18, 2013 -
Study: No specific ICD-10 codes exist for adverse drug events
There's "substantial variability" in how such events are classified under ICD-10.
By Anne Zieger • Nov. 14, 2013 -
U.S., U.K. launch health research cloud
The project should produce one of the world's largest open health data repositories.
By Anne Zieger • Nov. 14, 2013 -
Researcher identifies best practices for clinical text messaging
A researcher has discovered what text styles and content seem to be most impactful.
By Anne Zieger • Nov. 13, 2013 -
Insurers want to enroll exchange buyers directly
White House officials are resistant to the idea of sharing enrollee data with health plans.
By Anne Zieger • Nov. 12, 2013 -
Report: Clinical apps look promising for care, but issues remain
Though apps have shown some results in addressing conditions like asthma and diabetes, tech problems impair their usefulness.
By Anne Zieger • Nov. 12, 2013 -
Software ups Adventist's cash by $2.2M
A California health system expects to double or even triple collections going forward thanks to a point of care collections system.
By Anne Zieger • Nov. 11, 2013 -
Study: Most hospital residents aren't wild about iPads for work
Medical residents favored use of the iPad for education, communication and research rather than clinical documentation.
By Anne Zieger • Nov. 8, 2013
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