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Speaker spotlight: Eliminating disparities in maternal and child health
Rebecca Dineen, assistant commissioner for the Bureau of Maternal and Child Health at the Baltimore City Health Department, will be…
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Can a HIPAA-enabled Amazon Alexa help patients at home?
Amazon’s recent announcement that its cloud-based voice service Alexa can support health care entities that are subject to the HIPAA…
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Report highlights patient safety issues with EHRs and the opioid epidemic
While technology alone cannot solve the opioid epidemic, it can play an important role in reducing overprescribing and co-prescribing opioids…
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Reporters take deep dives into electronic health records and find rich stories
After a five-month hiatus as Health IT topic leader for AHCJ, I’m happy to be back. My absence was bookended…
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The patient matching problem and ideas on how to solve it
It seems obvious that for physicians to deliver the best care they should have accurate records on each patient’s medical…
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Why we should use caution when reporting on AI in medicine
Hospitals and health systems are jumping into artificial intelligence (AI) in an effort to help physicians better analyze images and…
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Report offers scenarios on how EHRs can pose safety risks to patients – and questions reporters should ask
Poor usability and design flaws of electronic health records (EHRs) can pose safety risks to patients, according to recent studies.…
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Apple Watch Series 4 unveiling draws thoughtful coverage
Health reporters provided rich context – and a dose of skepticism – around Apple’s introduction of the Apple Watch Series…
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Digging into a buzzed-about supercomputer
IBM enjoyed positive PR on its cancer treatment adviser, Watson for Oncology, until two reporters for Stat looked into whether…
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Summit of tech giants takes on the cloud and improving patient data interoperability
At a developer conference hosted at the White House last week, six of the biggest tech companies issued a joint…