Decision Support

ECRI's top 10 tech hazards for 2018, security gaps, dirty scopes make the list

By Beth Jones Sanborn 01:08 pm November 07, 2017

ECRI Institute weighed factors like severity, serious injury or dealth with overall preventability.

Here's why 9 systems made planning for EHR go-lives a priority

By 12:04 pm November 01, 2017

Solving interoperability problems for some hospitals has involved EHR go-live projects that align with strategic planning to find solutions – and spending money where the priorities are.

Cleveland Clinic picks top 10 innovations for 2018: Scalp cooling, next-gen vaccines make the cut

By Bernie Monegain 12:18 pm October 27, 2017

A better way to manage diabetes, a patch for a flu vaccine and a way to prevent hair loss from chemo make the annual list.

HIMSS CEO Hal Wolf speaking at the Big Data and Healthcare Analytics Forum in Boston on Monday.

Change management is IT's greatest challenge in delivering needed innovation

By Gus Venditto 11:25 am October 23, 2017

HIMSS CEO Hal Wolf says the culture of “do no harm” is contending with the culture of innovation and “fail fast.”

Halamka: Decision support, care management key to accelerating precision medicine

By Mike Miliard 11:06 am October 23, 2017

The Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center CIO says tailored treatment plans could be here soon with more widespread FHIR exchanges enabling easier access to cloud-based CDS insights.

Miami Children's wins HIMSS Davies award for reducing hospital-acquired infections

By Tom Sullivan 10:14 am October 23, 2017

The system instituted care management and clinical decision support tools to reduce readmissions of patients with asthma.

Great Lakes Health Connect offices in Michigan. Photo via Facebook

Michigan HIE adds alert tools to show social determinants of health

By Mike Miliard 03:31 pm October 19, 2017

Great Lakes Health Connect has tapped Holon Solutions' sensor technology to help it meet state Medicaid goals for population health.

A screen snap explaining the Integrated Health Model Initiative. Photo via AMA

AMA initiative calls for common data model, uniting providers, health IT firms

By Mike Miliard 02:58 pm October 16, 2017

Cerner, IBM, Intermountain, AMIA are early sign-ons to the new Integrated Health Model Initiative, which seeks to improve the way healthcare information is organized and shared.

From left, Susan Brassell-Knox, senior director IT Program Management Office, Ken Koppenhaver, Epic applications senior director; Kristin Myers, senior vice president of IT; and Elena Sethi, director IT Program Management Office.

How Mount Sinai is transforming its systems with a multi-year Epic EHR rollout

By Gus Venditto 12:45 pm October 05, 2017

After merging with a massive New York City health system, Mount Sinai had software from eClinicalWorks and GE as well as paper records and an aging mainframe to contend with. Here’s a look at how its PMO managed all that change.