By John Racine – Many healthcare organizations have started relying on contingent workers for a variety of reasons, including responding to talent shortages and addressing the rising costs of hiring full-time healthcare employees.
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We’ve rounded up some of the latest news and announcements pertaining to the coronavirus and the healthcare industry.
By John D’Amore – Back in the first century AD, the Roman orator Quintilian aptly characterized communication of health information as it should be in the 21st century: “One should not aim at being possible to understand but at being impossible to misunderstand.”
We’ve rounded up some of the latest news and announcements pertaining to the coronavirus and the healthcare industry.
FTC Submits Comment on Final Information Blocking Rule to the Department of Health & Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
HHS Finalizes Historic Rules to Provide Patients More Control of Their Health Data: Final rules require access to health information, spur innovation and aim to end information blocking.
By Austin Dobson – With the scope and scale of the novel corona virus outbreak growing, many health IT leaders are doing their part to mitigate the disease’s impact. The virus will likely stress the physical healthcare delivery systems (diagnostic labs, inpatient beds, emergency departments,) as well as IT infrastructure.
By Robert Kowalik – US hospitals are straining under the weight of an influenza season that hit hard and fast, with the CDC estimating at least 280,000 flu hospitalizations out of a minimum of 29 million flu illnesses between Oct. 11, 2019 and Feb. 15, 2020.
By Peyman Zand – Healthcare’s digital transformation and the need to meet patients’ consumer-driven expectations is forcing organizations to re-evaluate their core IT infrastructure, applications and data architectures.