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BOSTON | Bernie Monegain | May 24, 2013 | 09:58 AM | Health Information Exchange (HIE)
The Massachusetts eHealth Institute at the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative has launched the $1.5 million Mass HIway Vendor Interface Grant Program. The grants will fund projects that advance the interoperability of electronic health records in the... More
HULL, UK | Jamie Thompson | May 23, 2013 | 02:12 PM | Network Infrastructure, Quality and Safety
City Health Care Partnership CIC (CHCP CIC) has implemented a patient flow management solution by Cayder to enable healthcare providers to manage patient care more effectively. More
VICTORIA, BC | Jamie Thompson | May 23, 2013 | 01:28 PM | Electronic Health Records, Mobile/Wireless
The Amari Medical Clinic and Integrated Health Centre in Surrey, B.C. has tapped Cloud Practice Inc., to make test results, appointments and healthcare states available to patients. More
Jeff Rowe | May 23, 2013 | 10:57 AM | Claims Processing, Workforce Management, Financial/Revenue Cycle Management
Much of healthcare reform involves changing the relationship between providers and patients. But for providers, efforts to deliver more accountable care necessarily involves changing the way they manage their practices and keep abreast of near-constant... More
POCATELLO, ID | Erin McCann | May 23, 2013 | 10:37 AM | Electronic Health Records, Privacy and Security, Financial/Revenue Cycle Management
Idaho State University will pay $400,000 to the U.S. Department of Health Human Services to settle alleged violations of the HIPAA Security Rule. The settlement comes after ISU's Pocatello Family Medicine Clinic disabled server firewall protections for a... More
SALT LAKE CITY | Bernie Monegain | May 23, 2013 | 10:13 AM | Electronic Health Records, Quality and Safety, RIS and PACS
Intermountain Heathcare has launched a program that measures cumulative radiation doses patients receive over their lifetime for medical treatment. Intermountain hospitals and clinics are first in the country to compile the cumulative radiation patients... More
Tom Sullivan | May 23, 2013 | 09:38 AM | Electronic Health Records, Financial/Revenue Cycle Management, Policy and Legislation
The Beacon Communities proved that organizations can advocate changes to how healthcare is paid for by working with payers and providers, while improving quality and safety at the same time. "These were the pillars of the Beacon Community activities, and... More
Madelyn Kearns | May 22, 2013 | 10:47 AM | Data Warehousing, Electronic Health Records
Panelists on deck in Boston for the recent Health IT Summit session titled "EHR Data: A Touchstone for Quality Care" had plenty of diverging facets to share on the topic of EHR integration, but one primary point remained: We are all in this together... More
MINNEAPOLIS | Mike Miliard | May 22, 2013 | 10:36 AM | Claims Processing, Electronic Health Records, Quality and Safety
Healthland, which develops information technology for rural hospitals and care facilities, announced Tuesday its acquisition of Jackson, Miss.-based American HealthTech, which specializes in electronic health records for post-acute care. More
WASHINGTON | Erin McCann | May 22, 2013 | 10:34 AM | Electronic Health Records, Quality and Safety, Financial/Revenue Cycle Management
More than half of all eligible providers nationwide have received federal incentive payments for demonstrating meaningful use of electronic health records, rates that have more than doubled since last year alone, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced... More
Bernie Monegain | May 22, 2013 | 10:32 AM | Electronic Health Records, Network Infrastructure, Policy and Legislation
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel has notified the Department of Defense that it will look for an electronic health record system available on the commercial market rather than develop its own based on the Department of Veterans Affairs VistA system. In his... More
OREM, UT | Erin McCann | May 22, 2013 | 09:57 AM | Electronic Health Records
Healthcare providers and industry IT professionals have expressed concern over their ECG technology's lack of bidirectional communication and poor interoperability with electronic medical record systems, according to a KLAS report released Tuesday. More
