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Are you looking to transition your organization’s system to a new EMR? Here are the 4 best practices to take into consideration: Strong Leadership, Good Communications and Clear Goals Find an inhouse, or new staff employee who will take ownership of the project for the organization. Frequently, hospitals will outsource this key role, and thatRead more

A common mistake among hospitals and healthcare systems is that once they have implemented an EMR system, the misconception is that you can set it and forget it.  EHR/EMRs are constantly upgrading, releasing new modules, refining procedure, and allowing for improved optimization. Certain EMRs were built for small hospital systems and with mergers and/or organicRead more

According to Business Intelligence, the EHR market will reach over 38.3 billion USD by 2025.  There is a growing investment and funding for EHR and support for research from the health information exchange organization (HIO).  Healthcare professionals are recognizing the importance of implementing EHR and it will continue to rapidly grow throughout the years. InRead more

Here are the 4 highlights for Cerner in the past couple of months: Cerner has partnered up with LifeCenters, a hospitality and real estate development company, to focus on creating new health programs for senior-living communities. They are looking to develop centers for primary care, pharmacy and fitness.  What Cerner is offering is their innovation:Read more

2019 is Cerner’s 40th year anniversary and it is their year to create greater innovations.  Cerner will now be collaborating with Amazon Web Services (AWS) by using them as their preferred cloud provider.  Cerner knows that their consumers always want more and the best quality.  By working with AWS, Cerner will be able to moveRead more

The American Medical Association (AMA) has developed 8 priorities for EHR vendors to promote usability and support for patients.  The AMA’s goal is to make EHR is an asset rather than a cost of doing business, or, in some cases, a problem. Enhance physicians’ ability to provide high quality patient care The EHR system shouldRead more

The growth of technology and healthcare is moving exponentially with amazing results.  These changes help improve the care of current and future patients.  While some may disagree and believe that technology is not improving our healthcare systems, here are the top 10 stories on how technology and innovation has improved healthcare. Pennsylvania Hospital Changes TraditionalRead more

The LexisNexis Risks Solutions recently surveyed more than 30 members of the college of Healthcare Information Management Executives on what their focus will be for 2019.  These executives consist of all sizes of organizations from: hospitals, long-term care facilities and health plans.  In that survey, the CIO’s mentioned that their main priorities were: EHR upgradesRead more

Most smartwatch brands have been moving towards the healthcare market by developing new and more advanced vital sign monitoring technologies.  Apple already monitor’s your blood pressure and gives you alerts if you are outside the normal decile range and now AT&T and Samsung are moving forward to join in on the market. AT&T will shortlyRead more

If you are going to HIMSS19, you can look forward to seeing and hearing about the amazing innovations Microsoft has recently put out. Here are the three innovations to look out for: Microsoft 365 for Hospitals A secure HIPAA compliant application that allows physicians, nurses and other medical staff to communicate. This will allow theRead more