Photo: Community Organized Relief Effort The Community Organized Relief Effort in Georgia, better known as CORE, had a major operational challenge to coordinate all the logistical issues of setting up mobile vaccinations for COVID-19 across an entire state and managing dozens of field teams at more than 100 different locations. THE PROBLEM Prior to the pandemic there […]
‘PINGDEMIC CRISIS DOWN TO INCOHERENT POLICY’ As a record number of people have been told to isolate by the NHS COVID-19 app following contact with someone infected, the ‘pingdemic’ crisis continues to create challenges across the country. The professional body for IT said that it was not right to blame the app for the current crisis […]
Telehealth has the potential to expand access to care to previously underserved populations. However, it also has the possible side effect of worsening health disparities – and it’s vital, stakeholders say, to make changes to address that dynamic as soon as possible. “The pandemic brought telehealth to the forefront of everybody’s mind,” said Dr. […]
The past year has been like no other for healthcare provider organization executives. They have been put to the test, and the successful have survived intact, with many lessons learned along the way. Today, Healthcare IT News presents the latest in its feature story series talking with healthcare C-suite officers and other health IT leaders […]
In a major move announced by HSJ today, NHSX plans to merge into a new transformation directorate to combine digital and operational improvement teams within NHS England and NHS Improvement. Although first proposed at a board meeting in January, NHS England is still waiting for full approval from the Treasury and the Department of Health and […]
NHSX has pioneered an anonymous bank of over 40,000 scans collected over the course of the pandemic. The National COVID-19 Chest Imaging Database (NCCID) collects X-Rays, CT and MRI scans to speed up diagnosis of the disease, enabling clinicians to implement treatment plans faster and more effectively as well as allowing them to predict more […]
The sluggish rollout of COVID-19 vaccines so far has many causes, but one of the biggest has been a suboptimal infrastructure for coordination and record keeping. A new coalition of some of the biggest healthcare and technology organizations is hoping to change that, and quickly. WHY IT MATTERS The new Vaccination Credential Initiative announced Thursday […]
A paper published this month in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association found that vendors vary in their development maturity of outpatient EHR use measures. Although Epic, Cerner and Allscripts have developed EHR use measures in client-available platforms, researchers found that athenahealth’s are still in development, and eClinicalWorks and NextGen have no existing […]
Cerner on Wednesday announced a collaboration with Well Health to simplify clinicians’ engagement with patients through automated and intelligent conversation. According to the electronic health record giant, organizations can use the new automation features through Cerner’s HealtheLife patient portal to deliver critical health information, send flu shot reminders, reschedule appointments, schedule virtual visits and prompt […]
SMART COVID-19 ANTIBODY TEST TO LAUNCH Swiss medtech company, Bloom Diagnostics has announced the launch of its COVID-19 antibody test for professional use in the EU. The Bloom System allows healthcare professionals to conduct COVID-19 antibody testing with real-time results using its Bloom Lab – a smart, Bluetooth enabled device which operates through the Bloom App on the […]
