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...

‘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’...

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,...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...