Clinical

Kurt Hegmann, MD, from the University of Utah and a Kaiser partner, will be speaking at HIMSS18 on March 8.

Vision for value-based care must include clinical decision support integrated into EHR

By Bill Siwicki 09:40 am February 20, 2018

A physician working on a major Kaiser Permanente clinical decision support implementation shares lessons learned.

Google AI now can predict cardiovascular problems from retinal scans

By Bill Siwicki 12:18 pm February 19, 2018

This is a big step forward, Google officials said, because the tech is not imitating an existing diagnostic but rather using machine learning to uncover a new way to predict health problems.

Boston Children's builds dashboard to better manage patient capacity and beds

By Bill Siwicki 01:59 pm February 16, 2018

The hospital has outstripped its physical footprint, so analytics for patient placement has become critical while it awaits new buildings.

Athenahealth to show new tech to ease burden on doctors at HIMSS18

By Bernie Monegain 08:13 am February 16, 2018

CEO Jonathan Bush said the goal is to remove the grunt work doctors neither want nor are schooled to perform.

FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, released the agency’s budget requests for fiscal 2018 on Tuesday.

FDA budget requests include clinical software, natural language processing and real-time device data

By Jessica Davis 02:09 pm February 15, 2018

Agency Chief Scott Gottlieb also will establish a Center of Excellence on Digital Health designed to create a new way to evaluate third-party certifiers and supported by a cybersecurity unit.

In a new study of more than 400 participants, patient educators will provide education information through bedside laptops instead of printed materials in hopes of better engaging patients.

Patient bedside education: Time to modernize?

By Dave Muoio 10:26 am February 14, 2018

Researchers are investigating whether giving patients consumer-friendly digital tools can help improve adherence to lower readmissions, and they’ll share the results at HIMSS18.

University of Chicago Medicine CXO Susan Murphy will be speaking at HIMSS18 on March 7.

Meet the CXO: Improving care experience, patient engagement

By Jessica Davis 10:14 am February 14, 2018

University of Chicago Medicine Chief Experience and Innovation Officer dives into her role and how it can be used to improve patient experiences, engage employees and fuel patient engagement.

Andrea Hall is the director of clinical informatics at Shawnee Mission Medical Center and will be speaking at HIMSS18 on March 8.

How do you manage documentation when inpatient, outpatient EHRs are different?

By Jonah Comstock 09:31 am February 14, 2018

Shawnee Mission Medical Center has different EHRs in separate care settings and that means informaticists have to accommodate varying workflows so they created a flexible system to manage it.