Photo: Greene County Health Care Twenty years ago, Greene County Health Care in Snow Hill, North Carolina, was interested in installing an electronic health record system, data warehouse and practice management system. So Greene County became one of the first health center control networks to fully jump into the digital space. Telehealth and remote patient […]
Verizon Business on Monday announced its new BlueJeans Telehealth technology. The company bills it as a simple and accessible means of connecting patients and providers remotely via video. WHY IT MATTERS Expected to be generally available next month, BlueJeans Telehealth is designed to offer an intuitive experience for patients, providers and administrators, say Verizon Using […]
As health systems begin to roll out COVID-19 vaccines, much attention has been paid to the “cold chain,” the organizations and equipment that enable their necessary sub-zero storage and transport. Experts have pointed to the clear logistical and security challenges this unique supply chain presents. But others say that some of these hurdles around vaccine distribution […]
I have often shared with people that serving as a chief information officer in this era has provided me with being the beneficiary of all the hard work, effort and persistence of those CIOs that served before me in my organization. I benefited from technology foundations being laid and compounding on the results of each […]
COVID-19 has accelerated a digital transformation that was already underway in hospitals across the United States. Now two healthcare experts — Paddy Padmanabhan, founder and CEO of Damo Consulting, a digital transformation advisory firm, and longtime healthcare CIO Ed Marx, now chief digital officer of HCI Group — have written a new playbook to help […]
The Medicaid Transformation Project, founded by the health system network Avia and former Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services acting administrator Andy Slavitt, released its Phase One report this week after two years of operation. 30 health systems and the Veterans Health Administration are MTP members, comprising 378 hospitals in 28 states. Phase One focused […]
At HIMSS20 next week, two population health leaders from Northwell Health will describe their efforts to know more about their patients’ social determinants of health – and will show how their work to incorporate that information into electronic health records and clinical workflows could offer lessons for other health systems looking to try similar initiatives. […]
