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Why integration of medical devices is critical to patient care

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Connecting medical devices, such as infusion pumps, patient monitoring systems and dialysis machines, to the electronic medical record (EMR) can help maximize resources while providing a pathway to critical clinical information. “Medical devices were seen as only able to deliver a therapy or service.

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EMR Optimization Is the Hottest Thing Since … EMRs

Electronic Health Reporter

Due in large part to the HITECH Act and the meaningful use incentive program, electronic medical record (EMR) initiatives have dominated the IT efforts of healthcare providers for the better part of the past decade. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Ken Congdon, content marketing manager, Hyland Healthcare.

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In Saudi Arabia, machine learning model helps reduce outpatient no-shows

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"We have a unified electronic medical record system that has different modules for registration, admission and outpatient. It takes phases in order to make sure that we are ready to [incorporate the model] within the electronic medical record system," said Al Ghamdi.

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St. Luke's Health reports data breach

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Hacks targeting electronic medical records total 41, while there are 483 cases under investigation targeting network servers. Since the start of the year in the United States, there have been 194 cases of cyber hacking/IT incidents breaching email accounts reported to OCR.

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Thailand’s Princ Hospital Suvarnabhumi clinches HIMSS EMRAM Stage 7

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Princ Hospital Suvarnabhumi from Thailand has been validated for Stage 7 of the HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model. The EMRAM measures the clinical outcomes, patient engagement, and clinician use of EMR technology in a hospital or health facility.

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IHH Healthcare migrates Malaysia, S'pore database systems to cloud

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IHH Singapore's core application workloads, including the electronic medical record (EMR), enterprise data warehouse, and laboratory information systems (LIS), have been migrated to Oracle Exadata Database Service on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

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Samsung Medical Center tops global health systems in HIMSS Digital Health Indicator

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"Samsung Medical Center's world-highest HIMSS DHI score results from the hospital's effort to implement global high-tech intelligence as part of our digital transformation.