Weekly Roundup – October 22, 2022

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week. GIS Technology Supports Healthcare Workers on the Ground. Geographic Information System (GIS) technology helps track and manage the spread of diseases in remote areas. Colin Hung recently chatted with Sightsavers’ Andy Tate to discuss the benefits of GIS to control and eliminate trachoma, an infectious cause of blindness easily treated with antibiotics – provided they get in patients’ hands. Read more… Healthcare’s Opinion of Automation Has Evolved. Clinical and administrative staff used to be afraid of process automation, but over time healthcare has learned to embrace automation as a way to augment staff or meet patients’ needs. John Lynn chatted with Stericycle’s Matt Dickson about automation’s role in improving efficiency and addressing healthcare’s workforce challenges. Read more… Bringing Innovation to ePrescribing. There hasn’t been much movement in the ePrescribing market, but FDB Vela is looking to change that. John spoke with the company and its first customer, Parker Health, to learn how FDB Vela’s use of technology and data has set itself up to provide what the market needs. Read more… How Big Tech Can Succeed in Healt...
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