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Healthcare IT News provides essential monthly updates for healthcare IT leaders. Recognized with the Jesse H. Neal Award, it features insights on the latest technologies, IT strategies, regulatory matters, and updates from both providers and vendors. In collaboration with HIMSS, this publication is the sole newspaper in the industry, reaching over 54,000 subscribers. Its audience includes IT managers, C-suite executives, and clinical leaders from hospitals, integrated delivery networks (IDNs), group practices, outpatient care facilities, home healthcare services, as well as healthcare payers, consultants, and vendors.

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Nurses are fleeing the workforce – can scheduling tech help? | Healthcare IT News

1 day ago | healthcareitnews.com | Andrea Fox

More than half of nurses say they experience burnout most days, a new survey shows, with 61% planning to change jobs or departments, seek a hybrid position, work as travelers or make other career changes.
Why patient digital engagement is the metric to monitor | Healthcare IT News

2 days ago | healthcareitnews.com

When healthcare practices support reliable digital engagement tools, patients can better access and comply with care.
Duke's chief nurse shows how VR and AI are changing nursing at the health system

2 days ago | healthcareitnews.com | Bill Siwicki

Theresa McDonnell, DNP, RN, is somewhat unusual when it comes to healthcare executives. She serves as chief nurse executive at Duke University Health System, one of the top academic health systems in the U.S. What's more, she remains a practicing oncology nurse. She brings this dual perspective – boardroom strategy meets bedside reality – to all the decisions she makes. Most health systems across the country today are reacting to clinician burnout.
GP2GP likely to be phased out and more briefs

2 days ago | healthcareitnews.com | Adam Ang

Photo: Cavan Images/Getty ImagesTe Whatu Ora sees end of GP2GP Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand has revealed actions to address the immediate risks of the "outdated" GP2GP electronic patient record transfer system. The system, which was introduced in 2011, is expected to be "replaced or rendered unnecessary" once the upcoming shared digital health record system goes live by midyear.
Autonomous coding with AI shows impressive results at OHSU

3 days ago | healthcareitnews.com | Bill Siwicki

Oregon Health & Science University Hospital is a 576-bed teaching hospital, biomedical research facility and Level I trauma center located on the campus of Oregon Health & Science University in Portland. It is at the heart of OHSU, a large health system of hospitals and clinics across Oregon and southwest Washington. THE CHALLENGELike much of the industry, OHSU has faced a persistent shortage of medical coders, hugely impacting coder case volumes and operational efficiency.
Virtual nursing at Hackensack Meridian Health is making nurses and patients happy

4 days ago | healthcareitnews.com | Bill Siwicki

Hackensack Meridian Health has made a conscious effort to identify ways to streamline administrative tasks for its bedside teams, minimizing non-clinical burdens for frontline staff. That's why the New Jersey health system decided to enhance its nursing staff with a virtual nursing program. The work of virtual nursing staff decreases the documentation currently completed by bedside nurses and allows for increased direct care interaction.
CDS helps Kettering Health gain more MRI screenings while boosting efficiencies

1 week ago | healthcareitnews.com | Bill Siwicki

Kettering Health Breast Centers was facing a challenge: Its cancer risk assessment process was inefficient and fragmented. Staff there relied on a separate tablet-based system where patients or staff completed risk questionnaires. This setup posed several hurdles: the tablets depended on unstable Wi-Fi, the process was time-consuming to explain to patients and consent was required before conducting assessments.
NIH and CMS to build autism data platform

1 week ago | healthcareitnews.com | Andrea Fox

The National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are working together to build what they're calling a "real-world data platform" that can be used to research claims information, electronic medical records and consumer wearable data – all with the goal, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to "advance understanding of autism." The data use agreement announced Wednesday was touted as for its security by HHS, but many observers,...
HIMSSCast: Help with the labor shortage and more can come from tech dealmaking

1 week ago | healthcareitnews.com | Bill Siwicki

Berkeley Research Group, more commonly known as BRG, recently launched its "2025 U.S. Healthcare & Life Sciences Transactions Outlook." The report includes some interesting findings related to healthcare technology. A portion of the data shows, among other things, that providers are considering transactions/deal activity in 2025 to address challenges and opportunities with AI, cybersecurity and digitization.
EMC Grha Kedoya Hospital secures new Stage 6 EMRAM for West Jakarta

1 week ago | healthcareitnews.com | Adam Ang

EMC Grha Kedoya Hospital in West Jakarta, Indonesia, has been validated for Stage 6 of the HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model, which assesses an organisation’s maturity in EMR capabilities. Established in 2011, the private 200-bed hospital is part of EMC Healthcare, a group of eight private hospitals in Indonesia.