Search Tag: EHR
How to Make EHRs Smarter and Safer
2022 19 Jul
Computer-based patient records were declared an essential technology for healthcare in 1991 by the National Academies. It was believed that patient records would support patient care, improve quality of care, enhance the productivity of healthcare professionals, reduce administrative costs, support clinical research and accommodate future developments... Read more
ZS and IgniteData Partner to Transform Patient Data Automation for Clinical Trials
2022 01 Feb
The global professional services firm ZS announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership through a supporting multimillion dollar investment in IgniteData, a U.K.-based digital health startup shaping the future of clinical research through its Archer technology. The goal for this partnership is to improve the efficiency of clinical research... Read more
5 Ways Big Data Can Benefit the Healthcare Industry
2021 10 Nov
Vlad Vahromovs is an accomplished tech executive with over 15 years of executive leadership experience delivering cutting-edge solutions to industry giants, He is the CEO of Intellectsoft , the technology partner of Fortune 500 companies including EY, Nestle, and Jaguar. Vlad holds modern courses degrees from Stanford and Erasmus University Rotterdam.... Read more
Enterprise Imaging and XERO® Universal Viewer Enhancing Accessibility and Collaboration
2021 19 Mar
An overview of Agfa Healthcare’s Enterprise Imaging platform and the XERO® viewer and how it can be embedded in EHR/EMR/Portal and enable the creation of patient-centric longitudinal imaging records from across departments, systems and locations. This allows healthcare providers the ability to share content and discuss treatment strategies for optimum... Read more
NLP+EHR: Automatic Detection of Adverse Drug Reactions
2021 07 Mar
A group of Spanish researchers present the results of their work on applying natural language processing (NLP) techniques for electronic health record analysis and specific data extraction. You might also like: A vendor-neutral, open-source, natural language approach of EHR data is suggested by a team of U.K. researchers, to help... Read more
Why Enterprise Imaging Matters to the Radiologist
2020 18 Nov
Enterprise imaging is a healthcare innovation that is driven by the latest trends in technology, including artificial intelligence and data analytics. In essence, enterprise imaging refers to a system-wide approach for storing, managing, distributing, viewing and analysing all clinical imaging and multimedia content in the electronic health record... Read more
Timely Alerts Reduce Mortality
2020 13 Nov
An automated alert system that analyses electronic health records (EHR) can help identify high-risk in-hospital patients needing interventions by rapid response teams, resulting in decreased mortality, says a Kaiser Permanente-led study (Escobar et al. 2020). You might also like: AI Tool Helps to Reduce COVID-19 Mortality ... Read more
AI Will Drive Health Information Management, Experts Say
2020 06 Nov
Nine in ten health information management executives expect widespread implementation of AI technology to reduce costs and manage data in the next five years, a research by Black Book shows. You might also like: 'Time Saving' EHR Copy-Pasting Must Stop By 2022, the clinical documentation market is expected to reach... Read more
AI Tool Helps to Reduce COVID-19 Mortality
2020 25 Aug
A team at Hospital Clinic Barcelona-IDIBAPS has created an artificial intelligence (AI) tool, which stratifies hospitalised COVID-19 patients according to possible symptom complications. In turn, this allows provision of personalised treatment. As a result of this approach, significant reduction in early mortality rates was observed. ... Read more
EHR Systems: From Record to Plan
2020 14 Jun
For the medical community, overwhelming amounts of information that needs to be processed has been one of the challenges exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. An expert suggests that this challenge can be turned into an opportunity to overhaul the electronic health records (EHRs) system. You might also like: COVID-19 & Tech:... Read more