Health IT

Healthcare information (HIT) systems are designed to connect all the elements together for patient data, reports, medical imaging, billing, electronic medical record (EMR), hospital information system (HIS), PACS, cardiology information systems (CVIS)enterprise image systemsartificial intelligence (AI) applications, analytics, patient monitors, remote monitoring systems, inventory management, the hospital internet of things (IOT), cloud or onsite archive/storage, and cybersecurity.

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Costco sued over sharing health data with Meta

Costco is accused of using the Meta Pixel tracker to share sensitive information about its customers with the social media giant.

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Healthcare AI and HIPAA compliance: 5 key legal questions + answers

Training AI for use in healthcare requires feeding algorithms patient data, and lots of it. This opens data custodians—typically hospitals—to various points of potential legal exposure.

Video of Kateita Hasanovic, RN, senior director, clinical EHR applications at Baptist Health, Jacksonville, Florida, explains how her large health system consolidated its Epic EHR and patient medication history.

How medication reconciliation data consolidation in the EHR enables better patient care

Baptist Health in Jacksonville, Florida, consolidated patient medication history from numerous facilities into one location in its Epic EHR to improve patient safety and allow data analytics.

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ChatGPT shows ‘tremendous’ potential in simplifying readability of radiology reports

Researchers prompted the large language model to "explain this medical report to a child using simple language" and had rads rate the results based on completeness and correctness. 

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Clinical decision support has little impact on image-ordering behaviors, single-center study finds

CDS only added 24 seconds to ordering clinicians' workflows and rarely led to these individuals changing their radiology request, experts wrote in JACR

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Hospital trio learns cybersecurity lessons the hard way

How quickly a hospital recovers from a ransomware cyberattack has a lot to do with how thoroughly the hospital prepared ahead of time for just such an event.

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Consumer-oriented radiology reports a ‘promising’ strategy to improve patient-centered outcomes

Such reports helped improve preparedness for appointments, enhance conversations with physicians and bolster patients' understanding of treatment recommendations, survey responses show.

Video of Bradley Hunter, the vice president for value-based care and core solutions at KLAS Research, explaining how the Best in KLAS rates for health informatics vendors are created.

How are the best in KLAS Health IT vendor rankings created?

KLAS conducts annual assessments of all types of healthcare information systems such as PACS, EMRs and cardiovascular information systems and ranks them. Bradley Hunter, the vice president for value-based care and core solutions at KLAS Research, explains the process of ranking.