Friday, March 18, 2022: Health IT

GE Healthcare launched its new Edison Digital Health Platform for health care organizations. The platform aggregates applications and patient data from multiple sources and integrates them with existing clinical workflows for easy provider access. It also includes a...

Wednesday, March 16, 2022: Health IT

Google Health and EHR vendor Meditech plan to integrate Care Studio, an EHR search tool that Google first piloted with Ascension, into Meditech’s Expanse EHR. The goal of the partnership is to pull and organize information from different systems to give doctors...

Wednesday, March 16, 2022: Health IT

A new analysis from KFF and Epic Research revealed that telehealth continues to account for more than a third of outpatient mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) visits. The analysis examined Epic’s HIPAA-defined limited data set of more than 126 million...

Wednesday, March 9, 2022: Health IT

Congress will include a months-long extension of telehealth flexibilities in a package to fund the government. According to a draft of the provisions, Medicare will cover an array of telehealth services for at least 151 days after the end of the public health...

Friday, March 4, 2022: Health IT

Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy has asked technology companies, health care providers, and community organizations for information about COVID-19 misinformation. It is the Biden administration’s first attempt to get tech firms to share such data publicly....

Tuesday, February 15, 2022: Health IT

HHS announced that the Health Resources and Services Administration awarded nearly $55 million to 29 health centers to increase health care access for underserved populations through virtual care. The Optimizing Virtual Fund is intended to be used for telehealth,...