Just how many blogs and bloggers are there worldwide? No one really knows, but estimates are in the 100s of millions, including several million who may live in their parents' basements. Well, honestly, we don't have the time or resources to read millions of blogs so we're asking for your help. We want you to […]
No patient wants to spend time in a hospital. But making the patient experience more comfortable, efficient and enjoyable through design and technology is a major focus for healthcare institutions these days. Some of the changes are simple—like putting more electrical outlets and USB ports in patient rooms for charging mobile devices. Others require investment […]
Increasingly tech savvy healthcare consumers are embracing wearable devices and telemedicine, and want to interact with their physicians using modern technology. Still, a new survey, commissioned by Salesforce, finds most interact and communicate with their providers through traditional channels—in person and by phone. The survey of 1,700 insured adults was conducted online by Harris Poll […]
Cerner HealtheIntent is a cloud-based, programmable population health management platform that is vendor-agnostic, which means it can receive data from any EHR, existing HIT system and other data sources, such as pharmacy benefits managers or insurance claims. The near real-time platform enables health care systems to aggregate, transform and reconcile data across the continuum of […]
An Adventure in Wonderland is the theme for this year’s Epic UGM - User Group Meeting. The Epic UGM 2016 dates are Sept. 19 – 22, and the conference is likely to draw nearly 20,000 visitors to Epic’s Verona, Wisconsin headquarters. The event provides a forum for valuable discussions with Epic staff and customers, and […]
Stack Overflow touts their 2016 survey as the most comprehensive developer survey ever conducted. And who are we to argue? Stack is a web-based community of 4.7 million programmers who post and answer questions, sharing advice and code on a reddit-style bulletin board, and their entire community is invited to participate in their annual survey. […]
Healthcare CEOs and CIOs, their IT consultants, outsourced services and other vendors are investing considerable time and resources improving data security, with a sharp focus on protected healthcare information (PHI). No surprise, since executives for all these organizations are accountable for the PHI data they touch, regardless of where a breach may surface along the […]
In our quest to find the best Cerner-focused Twitter accounts, we found a lot of Cerner employees—and a lot of tweeting about Kansas City barbeque and the World Champion Royals baseball team. But we also found plenty of great content about the company and its offerings, Cerner’s innovation at its client hospitals, and some executive […]
Cupid may sound like a dating website, but its day-to-day use in a cardiology setting is more functional than romantic. Epic Cupid is Epic Systems’ cardiovascular information system module, providing order entry, scheduling, procedure documentation and structured reporting for cardiology. It also handles associated functions such as analytical reporting, results communication and charging. Cupid (originally […]
In a workday filled with big projects, how much time do you leave for big thinking? Probably not much if you’re a typical healthcare IT professional working in what author Daniel Forrester calls “a constant fog of action and immediacy.” Here’s our suggestion to cut through the fog: take a daily TED break. For the […]
The decision to buy and implement an Epic Systems electronic health record (EHR) is typically one of the largest strategic investments a hospital or health system will make. With Epic at the center of your patient care strategy, you will want to hire the best and brightest Epic-skilled talent you can find. But here's the […]
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