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This page includes news coverage of various aspects of patient healthcare, including new technology innovations, what is working, what is not, personalized medicine and remote and telemedicine delivery. Find specific news in the areas of Care Delivery, Digital Transformation, Precision Medicine, Remote Monitoring and Telehealth.

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Integrating Quality Measures into EHRs: Available Tools and Lessons Learned

Wednesday, March 3, 2:15 PM - 3:15 PMThis session describes how the American Medical Association's Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement has developed standardized methods for integrating quality measures into EHRs and best practices for implementation of quality measures.

The Healthstory Project: Harmony with Clinical Narrative/Structured Data in the EHR

Wednesday, March 3, 2:15 PM - 3:15 PMConventional wisdom dictates that documents are bad and discrete data is good. But the Healthstory project offers a bridge between free-flowing narrative clinical documentation and semantically interoperable data.

EHRCenterpiece for Practice Growth and Profitability

Wednesday, March 3, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PMThis session will discuss how to implement a fully functional electronic health record in a solo practice and raise profits by 25 percent annually through efficiency and laddering of technologies.

Lessons Learned from Developing a Premier Global EHR

Wednesday, March 3, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PMThe Department of Defense's Defense Health Information Management System provides one of the largestand most comprehensiveelectronic health records in the world. Subsequently, the DHIMS has experienced several challenges and learned many lessons during the implementation process.

EHR/CPOE Implementation: Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail

Wednesday, March 3, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PMThe planning process is a key element in the success of any implementation. Ensuring success, building a strong team, preparing for launch, designing deployment strategies and other important considerations will be addressed.

Getting to Stage 6: Lessons Learned from an Urban Medical Center

Wednesday, March 3, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PMLearn how the Detroit Medical Center addressed the challenges faced getting to HIMSS Analytics' EMR Adoption Model Stage 6 from the CIO's perspective while gaining insights about the implementation process.

Integrating Medical Images and the EHRthe Time Is Now

Wednesday, March 3, 9:45 AM - 10:45 AMThe U.S. Health Information Technology initiative is beginning planning for an interoperable nationwide health information system. The importance and inclusion of medical images needs to be considered from the onset.

Navigating HITECH: Challenges and Opportunities for the Physician Practice

Wednesday, March 3, 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM; Room B313bThis session will explore the challenges, benefits and ramifications of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act's incentives for electronic health record adoption by private practices and how starting early leads to financial gain.

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These health systems have the biggest digital health portfolios

U.S. health systems are increasingly leveraging digital health to conduct their operations, but how health systems are using digital health in their strategies can vary widely.

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Toylike robot pleases counseling clients where humanoid counterpart struggles to connect

When human counselors are unavailable to provide work-based wellness coaching, robots can substitute—as long as the workers are comfortable with emerging technologies and the machines aren’t overly humanlike.

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Medsender, Patagonia Health team up to aid public health efforts against COVID-19

A vendor that supplies EHR software to public health agencies is partnering with a health-tech startup in the cloud-communications space to equip state and local governments for managing their response to the COVID-19 crisis.

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