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The Interface Architect: The Most Powerful People You’ve Never Heard Of in Healthcare IT

Jason Free — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 11:46:56 +0000

They rarely speak at conferences. They almost never appear in press releases. But deep inside every healthcare system’s IT stack, one figure decides whether your technology lives or dies: the interface architect.

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Shadow Code, Part I: The Unofficial Systems Running American Healthcare

Jason Free — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 11:11:41 +0000

When Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago suffered a crippling ransomware attack, the media focused on the outage and the recovery timeline. But investigators quietly flagged a deeper issue: several clinical teams had been relying on unapproved scheduling spreadsheets and unsecured workarounds, introduced without IT oversight and operating in parallel to enterprise systems. These tools, collectively known as shadow systems, weren’t part of the hospital’s official infrastructure. But they were running it just the same.

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Sutter Health Deploys World’s First Wearable Doppler Ultrasound Patch to Enhance Safety of ICU Patients

Jason Free — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 10:41:57 +0000

Flosonics Medical, a leader in wearable medical ultrasound, announced that Sutter Health, an integrated not-for-profit system based in Northern California, will implement FloPatch, the world’s first wireless, wearable Doppler ultrasound

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University of Wisconsin–Madison’s N+1 Institute and GE HealthCare Collaborate for Faster Biohealth Innovation and Valuable Real-World Education for Students

Jason Free — Wed, 08 May 2024 13:18:08 +0000

The University of Wisconsin School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences (CDIS) at UW–Madison and GE HealthCare, a company with a rich Wisconsin history, announced GE HealthCare as the founding member of the N+1 Institute.

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Fortify Children’s Health Earns URAC Accreditation in Clinical Integration

Jason Free — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 13:56:07 +0000

Fortify Children’s Health is proud to announce that it has earned URAC accreditation in Clinical Integration.

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Early Data From MedStar Health Suggests Addressing Social Risk Factors Through Screening, Support Services, and Digital Tools Can Support Improved Maternal Health

Jason Free — Thu, 25 May 2023 09:06:57 +0000

Screening for social risk factors in routine clinical care and offering patients tailored resources to address needs could help improve maternal health outcomes, according to three new studies. These findings were presented today by MedStar Health researchers at the 2023 American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) Annual Clinical & Scientific Meeting (ACSM) and build on the health system’s commitment to improving the health and well-being of mothers and infants in Washington, D.C., through its D.C. Safe Babies Safe Moms initiative.

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Ascom Americas Report Finds Three Things Hospitals Can Do Now To Relieve The Nursing Shortage

Jason Free — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 20:44:00 +0000

Ascom, a healthcare IT and clinical collaboration company, announced that it released “Nursing Satisfaction: What Matters Most At Work” report which finds three things hospitals can do now to relieve the nursing shortage. The report includes findings from a survey of more than 500 nurses in the U.S. conducted in July. Ascom looked at a variety of dynamics affecting nurses today in light of the current nursing shortage and changes in the job itself.

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Damo Consulting Announces the Winners of the 2022 Digital Maturity Momentum Awards

Jason Free — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 20:38:00 +0000

Damo Consulting, a leading digital transformation advisory firm for healthcare, announced its inaugural DigiMTM Digital Maturity Momentum Awards program winners. Geisinger Health, Providence Health, and Northwell Health were named industry leaders for overall maturity and momentum in digital transformation among health systems.

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Research Needs Robust Data: The CDC Utilizes the PINC AI Healthcare Database

Jason Free — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 16:48:04 +0000

Three years into the COVID-19 pandemic, and the "new normal" continues to see a steady stream of variants and subvariants. Currently, the more contagious BA.5 omicron subvariant is causing a spike in infections, and, according to the CDC, COVID-19 hospital admissions are on the rise, putting a strain on those impacted hospital staff and resources across the nation.

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Evernorth Expands Its Digital Health Formulary

Jason Free — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 17:46:54 +0000

Evernorth, the health services business of Cigna Corporation , has expanded its Digital Health Formulary to include five new app-based programs to help people better manage their sleep issues, anxiety, alcohol and opioid use disorders, and inflammatory conditions. In a crowded digital health marketplace, Evernorth's Digital Health Formulary is a clinically based platform of verified, credible health apps designed to help people achieve their health goals.

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