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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
CHICAGO | Mike Miliard | May 21, 2013 | 11:15 AM | Meaningful Use, Electronic Health Records, Policy and Legislation
One month after six Republican Senators published a white paper calling for a new approach to the federal meaningful use incentive program, the HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association, has drafted a point-by-point response. More
PORTLAND, ME | Bernie Monegain | May 21, 2013 | 10:48 AM | Health Information Exchange (HIE), Privacy and Security, Policy and Legislation
Maine's HealthInfoNet, a nonprofit that operates the statewide health information exchange, announced that all acute care hospitals are now under contract to connect to the query-based HIE. HealthInfoNet has 34 of the 38 hospitals connected already and... More
SACRAMENTO | Anthony Brino | May 21, 2013 | 10:23 AM | Health Information Exchange (HIE), Quality and Safety, Policy and Legislation
The California eHealth Quality program is offering $1 million in grants for physicians, clinics and hospitals in rural California to add health information exchange technologies and meet federal meaningful use standards. More
Erin McCann | May 21, 2013 | 09:26 AM | Quality and Safety, Financial/Revenue Cycle Management
Transparency is a touchy subject in healthcare. It's one of the last market strongholds desperately clutching to its principles of secrecy, and it won't go down without a fight. But many experts say this stands as one of many reasons the industry... More
IRVING, TX | Bernie Monegain | May 20, 2013 | 11:01 AM | Meaningful Use, Business Intelligence, Quality and Safety
VHA, a nationwide healthcare network of 1,400 not-for-profit healthcare organizations that work to boost clinical performance while reducing costs, has cut a deal with Phytel to help its members tackle population management. More
DALLAS | Erin McCann | May 20, 2013 | 10:52 AM | Network Infrastructure, Financial/Revenue Cycle Management
The healthcare IT applications market continues to grow, according to a new Research and Markets report, which projects that by 2017 the global market will expand at a compound annual growth rate of 7 percent. More
Jeff Rowe | May 20, 2013 | 10:04 AM | Meaningful Use, Quality and Safety, Policy and Legislation
There are buzz phrases, and then there are buzz phrases. And if there's one phrase that has permeated the healthcare sector more thoroughly than all the others, it's probably "accountable care." But what exactly does it mean? Or, more to... More
