For years, healthcare technology strategy was dominated by a simple idea: fewer vendors would solve interoperability challenges. The logic seemed sound. If a hospital, health system, or physician group could standardize on a single technology provider, information would flow more easily, workflows would become more efficient, and...
Source: SIA Healthcare staffing has been in the news with its unprecedented growth during the pandemic and subsequent pullback. Hospitals’ reliance on contingent workers and use of crisis staffing has also made headlines. However, there are other trends in the longer term affecting the industry, according...
Source: World Health Organization The Global Initiative on Digital Health (GIDH) is a WHO Managed Network aiming to amplify and align resources toward country-led digital health transformation through strengthened collaboration and knowledge exchange. It acts as a vehicle to facilitate the implementation of the Global Strategy...
Source: BusinessWire DataLink, a leading provider of data-driven healthcare solutions empowering better outcomes, today released its list of technology trends shaping healthcare in 2024. "As we step into 2024, the healthcare industry is gearing up for a transformative journey fueled by AI and ML," said Saurabh Bhargava,...
By: Kara Grant Source: Medscape.com In the second installation of the Medscape Masters series, Aaron Goodman, MD, a hematologist at UC San Diego, and Mark Lewis, MD, director of gastrointestinal oncology at Intermountain Healthcare in Utah, came together to debate the topic of patients’ immediate access to cancer test...
Source: FierceHealthcare.com Hospitals managed to snap an 11-month streak of negative operating margins in December, though the turnaround is little consolation to a sector that weathered “the worst financial year since the start of the pandemic,” Kaufman Hall wrote in its most recent National Hospital Flash Report. Hospitals...
Source: HealthDataManagement.com By: Greg Sladobkin The Department of Veterans Affairs is weighing all options as the agency decides the future of its legacy electronic health record system, including the possibility of replacing the decades-old Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) with a commercial EHR. “We need...