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The global prevalence of cyber-crime in healthcare has increased exponentially in recent years. According to the World Economic Forum, since 2016, the number of confirmed cyber attacks against healthcare organizations has doubled, and strikingly between 2022-2023, the...

The 21st Century Cures Act (Cures Act), which was signed into law in the U.S. in December 2016, contains provisions designed to promote the rapid and widespread adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) and facilitate health information exchange. Among its many...

In part 1 of this blog, we talked about the financial costs that healthcare organizations have to bear when managing their legacy application estate. But… Legacy applications cost more than just money! I’ve often heard the expression, ‘it’s not all about money’ – and,...

‘Digital transformation’, that somewhat overused and under-defined term in my opinion, is happening across the globe. The ultimate aims seem to be centered around increasing efficiencies in the delivery of care and improving patient outcomes – all laudable goals....

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was passed on August 21, 1996, with the dual goals of making healthcare delivery more efficient and increasing the number of Americans with health insurance coverage. This complex and comprehensive set of...

Switching to a new EHR system? You need to consider these 3 things for a successful EHR Migration Hospitals are always in the process of switching EHR systems. A report entitled "Acute Care EMR Decision Insights" from KLAS research found that it is the norm to have...

Addressing The Storage Crisis For Digital Pathology There are multiple drivers for change in histopathology across the NHS and private sectors. Pathology services are facing huge pressures through rising workloads, the increasing complexity of their work, and staff...

The funding for the NHS Frontline Digitisation initiative is imminent with the aim, according to Dr. Tim Ferris, the National Director of Transformation at NHS England and NHS Improvement and his Chief Information Officer, Simon Bolton; of “levelling-up acute sector...

In May of 2022, the UK government announced a program aimed at accelerating the adoption of the HIMSS Electronic Records Adoption Model (EMRAM) across the UK (albeit it’s referred to locally as ‘Minimal Digital Foundations’ and is subject to some variations to the...

John McCann, Vice President of Global Marketing at BridgeHead Software, offers a short review of his recent experience attending the MEDITECH User Network (MUN) 2022 event in Liverpool on 28-29th September.

The Cloud is here! Actually, we all know it’s been here for a while, but healthcare has been slow to make radical moves to Cloud adoption, preferring evolution over revolution. And with good cause – unlike other industries, healthcare needs to ensure that technology shifts, such as the move to Cloud, carry minimal risk for patients, finance, operations, and an organisation’s reputation.

A lot has changed since the first generation of electronic medical records (EMRs) hit the market in the ‘90s. New generations of EMRs, ambulatory systems, and other technologies have been implemented. This has left hospitals and care networks with too many overlapping or redundant solutions and siloed data sets – legacy applications. Many organizations are now considering why and how to retire these legacy applications. This article discusses the reasons and benefits of doing this.