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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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Patient Care, Politics, and Profits: Success with a Private Practice EHR

Tuesday, March 2, 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Join this session to hear how Virginia Women's Center utilizes an EHR to raise the bar in patient care, safety, customer service and workflow efficiencies with successful business results.

One Year Later: 100 Percent Provider Adoption of an Inpatient/Outpatient EHR

Tuesday, March 2, 8:30 AM - 9:30 AMLearn how Guthrie Clinic, a multispecialty, multistate group practice for Guthrie Health, maintained 100 percent provider adoption and return on investment one year after its paperless electronic health record launch.

EHR Adoption: A Davies Award Winning Story

Tuesday, March 2, 8:30 AM - 9:30 AMCome and learn how an Atlanta practice successfully acquired and implemented an electronic health record program and how their success resulted in being selected as a 2006 HIMSS Davies Ambulatory Care Award winner.

Partnering Together for a Successful EHR Implementation

Tuesday, March 2, 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Learn how a strong foundation, set early on in the electronic health record implementation process at MultiCare's clinics, led to a commitment to patient safety and quality care in MultiCare's hospitals, which successfully reaped the benefits of seamless, connected care.

Leveraging EMR Data to Develop Disease-Based Registries

Tuesday, March 2, 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Disease-based registries are effective tools, especially in conjunction with electronic medical records. The presenters will use actual registries to illustrate a multidisciplinary implementation approach. Challenges and opportunities posed by an EMR will be highlighted.

An Evidence-Based Approach to Activating CPOE and Clinical Documentation

Monday, March 1, 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM This presentation will review key considerations for computerized practitioner order entry and clinical documentation activation strategies, and share the results of a survey of 20 hospitals representing four major vendors.

Adoption and Meaningful Use of EHR Technology in a Hospital

Monday, March 1, 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM This session will discusses the challenges and strategies that led a year-long project at a community teaching hospital to reach the HIMSS Analytics EMRAM Stage 6.

Eight Rights of EHR-Based Safe Care

Monday, March 1, 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM President Obama has often referred to electronic health records as a solution to reduce medical errors. To achieve this goal, we propose the "Eight Rights of EHR-Based Safe Care."

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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.