Health Information Technology (HIT)
Helping patients manage their health requires developing superior IT-enabled services. How should health care providers tackle this challenge?
Through the third quarter this year, U.S. health care companies are topping all other business areas in venture capital funding, according to a report from PitchBook.
Hospitals, insurers, labs, researchers and others are exploring ways blockchain technology can improve business and clinical operations. Many believe the technology could sharply boost business and clinical efficiency while providing data-security benefits.
In their first joint initiative since forming a collaboration to drive innovation, Advocate Aurora Health and Chicago-based health technology incubator Matter launched the Health Care Tech Venture Challenge.
Intermountain Healthcare's new Kem C. Gardner Transformation Center will house programs to improve care quality while reducing costs for the nonprofit health system. In one of its first ventures, the center will partner with the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives to collaborate…
AHA shares Value-Based Care recommendations with Congressional Caucus.
A growing number of hospitals are using health information technology to improve health care quality and support new models of care, according to TrendWatch reports released today by the AHA.
This brief is the fourth in a series of issue briefs highlighting data from the 2016 AHA Annual Survey Information Technology Supplement for community hospitals collected November 2016 – April 2017. This fourth brief compares the use of health IT by hospitals and health systems that are…
Hospitals and health systems increasingly use EHRs and other health IT tools to support patient safety and improve care delivery. These tools have varying capabilities, but core functions include capturing clinical information – such as physician and nursing notes, test results, prescriptions, and…