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By Mark Wilson for CO.DESIGN Big data can spot things we’d never see coming. But are companies like Google and Amazon responsible for telling us the bad news? “If I’m on a park bench, and I’m next to someone, and I hear…
By David Raths for HCI | Healthcare Informatics Suite involved Tata Consultancy Services work on Epic implementation at Kaiser Permanente in Portland, Ore. A federal jury has awarded Epic Systems nearly $1 billion in damages after finding that an Indian…
By Virgil Dickson for Modern Healthcare The CMS will not continue to impose an inpatient payment cut to hospitals under the two-midnight rule following ongoing industry criticism and a legal challenge. It will provide a onetime bump to hospitals to offset…
By Selena Chavis for For The Record Vol. 28 No. 4 P. 14 As HIT matures, dictation and transcription models continue to evolve. It’s a situation being closely monitored by health care organizations concerned about the fallout from potential productivity losses…
By Mark Hagland for HCI | Healthcare Informatics Rush University Medical Center CMIO Brian Patty, M.D., shares his perspectives on physician documentation reform As the implementation of electronic health records (EHRs) has moved towards universalization, one of the unfortunate unintended…
By THR Staff for The Hollywood Reporter Robert De Niro Bill McCay/ Getty Images “We do not believe it contributes to or furthers the discussion I had hoped for.” Andrew Wakefield’s Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe has been officially pulled from this year’s Tribeca Film…
By Susan Morse for Healthcare IT News CMS said it plans to add about 1,900 diagnosis codes and 3,651 hospital inpatient procedure codes to the coding system. On Oct. 1, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will add another 5,500 codes…
By Lisa Vaas for naked security Every week seems to bring news of another case of ransomware. It’s nasty stuff. Nasty enough that the US and Canada on Thursday issued a rare joint cyber alert warning about the recent surge in ransomware attacks,…
By Dhruv Khullar, M.D. for The New York Times Sometimes, before I interview new patients, while I’m waiting for them to be transported from the emergency department to the medical floor, I play a game. I look through their lab tests. I peruse…
By Becker’s Hospital Review Staff for Becker’s Hospital Review Becker’s Healthcare is pleased to release the 2016 edition of “150 Great Places to Work in Healthcare.” The list features U.S. healthcare provider organizations, such as hospitals, health systems, ambulatory surgical…