Digital Transformation

This evolution of healthcare involves using technology to improve diagnosis, treatments, monitor patients, enhance hospital operations and culture, and bolster consumer-focused care. This includes virtual reality tools, wearable devices, workflow software, health apps and other digital health tools.

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Open patient network gets grant

Patient-centered health received a boost from a $1.9 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to PatientsLikeMe, an open network in which nearly 200,000 patients document their experiences with diseases for outcomes research.

What technologies keep hospital C-suite execs up at night?

Healthcare reform, accountable care organizations, readmissions and reimbursement rates are just a few of the challenges facing today’s healthcare leaders. Balancing costs and savings potential for new technologies also weighs heavily on their shoulders. A watch list from the ECRI Institute provides a roadmap to 10 technology issues that healthcare leaders should have on their radar in 2013 and beyond.

Missouri health system taps M*Modal for transcription, ICD-10 tech

M*Modal, a developer of clinical documentation, computer-assisted coding (CAC) and speech understanding technologies, will provide its M*Modal Fluency for Coding workflow platform to Mercy Health System. This cloud-based application delivers workflow and CAC services, as well as ICD-10 support.

CHIME supports ONC's IT safety plan

In comments submitted to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) largely supported the agency’s plans to play a coordinating role in support of health IT safety.

The Healing Edge: At the Intersection of Innovative Thinking and HIT

Recently, I published a book, titled Innovation with Information Technology in Healthcare, which contains the stories of almost 20 organizations that have been innovative in their approach to using health IT. I wanted to share some of the lessons from these stories to help guide your journey of using clinical innovation and technology to deliver better, faster and more cost-effective care at your organization.

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Is Innovation the Answer?

From innovation officers and centers to innovation grants and awards, innovation certainly seems to be front and center in the healthcare industry.

Innovative Mission At the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Far-sighted facilities and healthcare systems are learning how to harness technology to buttress their fiscal health. The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) is taking that concept to an entrepreneurial level, partnering with industry to develop cost-saving, care-enhancing technologies and commercializing those technologies for profit.

Evolving Healthcare, Evolving Infrastructure

Providers must constantly assess and advance their IT infrastructure to support new medical technologies, treatments and healthcare reform efforts. This “behind-the-scenes” nature of the beast poses its own challenges, beyond the ever-present concerns about costs.

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