Each time a patient is admitted to the hospital, a tiny message is generated to let every software system know the patient has arrived. Similar messages are sent as the patient is transferred from ...

Healthcare is investing billions in AI, yet most projects fail to scale. This analysis examines the EMR Divide and why only 4 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The cancer registry included more than twice as many deaths as the EMR. Median OS from the date of diagnosis was ...

A new report in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association has shown that real-world data contained in unstructured narratives has big predictive value when it comes to clinical ...

"Policy efforts have failed to engage a large proportion of patients in the electronic use of their data or to bridge the 'digital divide' that accompanies health care disparities," according to ...

The CDC used patient-level EHR data to plot hypertension rates across the U.S. with hopes the information will inform county-level public health programs and initiatives, according to a study ...

Cybercrime and data loss have devastating consequences—and while adopting data security best practices is important in any industry, it’s absolutely crucial in health care. That’s because, in our ...

With electronic medical records, physicians and hospital leaders have access to reams of data, much more so than in the past -- even too much, in some cases. Turning that data into actionable change ...

A large challenge healthcare providers face is what to do with all of their data. Understanding the basics of data collection and regulation in the healthcare industry is essential to understanding ...

In the all-hands-on deck race to conquer the coronavirus pandemic, de-identified patient data from a variety of sources support clinical research, and near real-time data captured through electronic ...