When Healthcare IT News readers had a lot to focus on this year with cyber security orders and AI innovation, they are also keen on new product launches, new regulatory approvals, acquisitions and resale – including one of the most significant medical IT M&A deals. But the year’s most read story concerns a challenge facing nearly every healthcare organization: clinician burnout and how to help address it.
Report: 90% of nurses consider leaving the profession in the next year. “Nurses are thinking about leaving and the pandemic isn’t the only cause,” says Shawn Sefton, RN, chief nursing officer and vice president of customer service at IQ Hospital. Healthcare IT News March. The software services company surveyed more than 200 nurses working in hospitals in the US and 90% are considering leaving the nursing profession in the next year, with 71% of nurses having more than 15 years of clinical experience. nurses said they wanted to quit their jobs as soon as possible. With key findings showing mass burnout, high turnover and a shrinking US nursing workforce, Sefton said leaders cannot continue to ignore burnout for much longer and discusses actions that healthcare organizations can take to eliminate some of the main causes of problems.
VA, Healthy Together collaborate on mobile access to health records. Although the VA is embroiled in controversy over implementation failures and delays associated with Oracle-Cerner EHR implementation and the implications for patient safety, the agency is working on it. goal to improve veterans’ access and digital practices. One example is a partnership with Healthy Together, which uses the agency’s API to provide veterans with secure mobile access to their health records.
FDA allows home COVID-19 testing from Amazon, Roche, Siemens. At the beginning of the year, the Biden Administration authorized the use of several new at-home COVID-19 testing kits. The National Institutes of Health’s Rapid Accelerated Diagnostic Technology program, along with experts from the U.S. Health and Human Services Agency, has worked to increase access to these rapid tests in amid reports of nationwide shortages and rising case rates.
Larry Ellison on healthcare data fragmentation: ‘We’re going to tackle this.’ Following the acquisition of Cerner Corporation in June, Oracle co-founder and CTO, Larry Ellison, delivered a live presentation that laid out a bold vision of technology integration. Promising a national EHR database, he said emergency department doctors would be able to quickly access patients’ electronic records and public health officials would be able to view the data. National Health is anonymous. “It will help doctors deliver better outcomes for patients. And it will help public health officials improve public health policy and reduce overall costs. That’s currently the main mission of the company. us at Oracle,” he said.
Allscripts for sale of large hospital and physician practice properties. In March, Allscripts signed a $700 million deal with Toronto-based Constellation Software’s N. Harris Computer Corporation for Allscripts’ Sunrise, Paragon, TouchWorks, Opal, and dbMotion products. Allscripts has seen major changes over the past few years, including the sale of its precision medicine platform. 2bExactly in 2021 and meet its CEO since 2012, Black Pauldown in May.
Why does Big Tech often fail in healthcare? Kyle Silvestro, president, chief executive officer and president of SyTrue, a healthcare artificial intelligence company, explained why tech vendors like IBM, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon don’t success in healthcare. Without understanding the complexities of the field and facing the challenges of huge and inconsistent healthcare data, which are not easy to interpret or share, most Tech companies, he explains adults would rather give up their efforts than do what it takes to fully immerse themselves.
EHR outage crashes federal Cerner systems. Following the highly publicized outage in March and subsequent request by Congress to stop implementing the Oracle-Cerner Millennium EHR, the April 6 outage once again raised alarms. when clinicians at 66 Departments of Defense, 109 Coast Guard, and three VA medical facilities were unable to update medical records for more than two hours. With more outages at VA sites after launch and despite ensuring extensive incident management protocols In order to continue medical operations when this happened, the DoD and VA’s Office of Inspector General found that the agencies did not take all the actions necessary to achieve interoperability of care information. patient care. In June, the Electronic Health Records Transparency Act VA was signed into law, and in July, after the OIG announced the results that the shutdown affected patient safetyThe VA has announced that it will be pausing the implementation of the EHR until 2023 to address technical and patient safety issues.
Epic launches SaaS aimed at independent medical teams. Epic has launched its Garden Plot software service for independent medical teams to encourage interoperability through shared patient records with local hospitals.
IBM sells Watson Health assets to Francisco Partners. Although IBM has spent billions of dollars buying healthcare technologies to build its Watson Health analytics portfolio, it has faced a number of challenges. The tech giant has agreed to a deal with Bay-area Francisco Partners to find value in Watson’s Clinical Development, Health Insights, MarketScan, Micromedex, Social Program Management and other radiology and imaging tools.
Can Oracle make Cerner’s EHR sing? CIO and analysts call. After Oracle acquired Cerner for more than $28 billion earlier in the year, healthcare leaders were largely unsurprised, but said that Oracle had a lot more to prove. “Whenever you buy back, it leaves customers in limbo,” said Coray Tate, vice president of core solutions and interoperability at KLAS Enterprises. Healthcare IT News in January. “They’ve all seen acquisitions that have had a negative impact on independent companies. There’s always hope and some degree of anxiety.”
Andrea Fox is the senior editor of Healthcare IT News.
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