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Engage! Transforming Healthcare Through Digital Patient Engagement

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January 29, 2013

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EHRs and Transcription: Can both live in harmony?

EHRs were projected to reduce the need for transcription. However, with slower than anticipated adoption of EHRs by providers coupled with concerns about quality and fear of inaccurate documentation and over-billing due to inappropriate copy/paste and template use, there is still a demand for transcription technology and services. A skilled medical transcriptionist can be the economical choice when faced with passing time-consuming tasks on to the most expensive person in the documentation workflow – the physician – and can serve as the extra pair of eyes to validate structured and encoded data intended for consumption by the EHR.

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January 28, 2013

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The Increasing Demand for Hospital IT Projects and Resource Capacity

Everyone knows that projects live or die based on resource capacity. Having enough people is just part of the problem—having enough capacity is far more critical.

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January 22, 2013

EHR-Extenders: Mobilizing Information From Clinical Systems to Improve Care Delivery and Satisfaction

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Please join Paul Peabody, Chief Information Officer at Palomar Health, and Todd Plesko, Chief Executive Officer at EXTENSION, INC. for a free webinar to learn more about EHR-Extenders (EHR-e) and how these innovative clinical workflow technologies foster patient-centered care.

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January 15, 2013

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Tips for Simplifying and Securing Complex Healthcare Authentication Scenarios

As healthcare organizations consume more cloud services, many are operating in a hybrid model where users access a combination of cloud and on-premises systems. In addition, users are accessing these systems across a wider range of devices from both on-site and remote locations. Together, these add significant complexity for IT managers and end users and create additional risk for organizations. This webcast, presented by PhoneFactor and Ping Identity, will feature tips for simplifying and securing access to sensitive data and applications across a diverse set of access scenarios.

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January 10, 2013

Beyond the EHR: Seamlessly Connecting Nurses and Physicians Using an EHR-Extender (EHR-e)

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This white paper focuses on how an EHR-Extender (EHR-e) can help hospitals leverage data trapped in the EHR and other clinical systems to establish better care team communication. The result of contextual critical alerts and texts are improved communication and enhanced workflows which makes patients, healthcare staff, administration, and regulators happy.

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January 2, 2013

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Improve Staff Satisfaction, Patient Safety, and HCAHPS Scores

Watch this informative video to learn more about EXTENSION's most popular clinical workflow solutions for nurses and physicians inluding nurse call integration, mobile critical lab notifications, mobile report availability, mobile STAT order notifications, HIPAA-compliant texting and more. EXTENSION's mobile point-of-care solutions improve staff satisfaction, patient safety, and HCAHPS scores.

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January 2, 2013

Reinventing Healthcare for the 21st Century: Meeting Global Challenges with Innovations in Care Coordination

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Both developed and emerging countries face three global megatrends that will have a crippling impact on their economies and societies if not address in the near future. The most significant trend is a rapidly aging world population. The proportion of the population over the age of 60 is projected to double between 2000 and 2050. At its 2012 Healthcare Innovation Summit, Intel convened several worldwide thought leaders to discuss opportunities to alleviate the impact of global aging, cost growth and workforce shortages.

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November 15, 2012

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Sizing Up Your Cloud Options - Is Now the Time?

A recent survey of IT executives found nearly 90% see business value in transitioning to Cloud computing, but only 20% have a plan to get there. Healthcare Cloud solutions require Compliance, Security, Privacy, Redundancy, and Scalability, so choosing the right path from on-premises servers to the Cloud can be daunting. Learn how to chart a quick and affordable course to healthcare <a href="/directory/cloud-computing" target="_blank" class="directory-item-link">Cloud Computing</a> and how to choose the right Cloud services partner.

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November 7, 2012

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QualSight LASIK Achieves HIPAA Compliance After Attempted Hack

In January 2010, QualSight - the nation’s largest LASIK manager serving over 75 million health plan members - was informed that a hack attempt had been made against their infrastructure. They were concerned that a repeat occurrence could take place and wanted to take a pro-active role in eliminating any future occurrence. Download this case study to find out how QualSight finally found a solution that offered complete HIPAA compliancy.

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November 7, 2012

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Improve Patient Safety and Reduce Medical Errors during all Points of Care

Barcodes, in the healthcare environment, are a patient’s voice. They identify, communicate and connect the patient accurately with his or her records from the moment care begins. Whether it’s at check-in, at the bedside or in the lab, barcodes help protect patients’ safety and reduce medical errors – which can cost your organization millions of dollars. This white paper that discusses how barcodes can be the patient’s voice – and save your organization from costly errors – during patient identification procedures, medication administration at the bedside, as well as in the lab during specimen collection and tracking.

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November 1, 2012

CapitalCare Medical Group chooses OptimizeHIT Software for physician and clinician EHR training

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Struggling to Understand our Data Does Not Equal Empowerment

Recently upon leaving my doctor’s office I was presented with a print-out of my visit summary. Knowing I worked it the HIT space my doctor proudly stated that this was one the ways that they planned to meet one of the menu objectives of Stage One meaningful use (MU).

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October 2, 2012

John Moore

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Finding Innovation Inspiration (or Lack Thereof) in the New iPhone

As many Apple fan boys (or fan girls) waited with baited breath outside of Apple stores last Friday (or paid someone to stand in line for them) in an attempt to walk out with the new iPhone 5, I used my dinosaur of an iPhone 3 to read tweets about their travails - bad weather, unscrupulous line-cutters, unexpected labor pains ... (Those last two are pure conjecture, by the way.)

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September 25, 2012

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EMRs are Walk-in Refrigerators

In his most recent article for The New Yorker, Atul Gawande drew some impressive comparisons between the efficiency of the U.S. healthcare system and one of the country’s most successful restaurant chains.

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September 12, 2012

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Healthcare IT Bingo!

I was hanging out with David Shaywitz of Forbes the other day and he told me about a piece he wrote some time back about the buzzwords associated with the “innovation” culture that has emerged by name in Silicon Valley and Beyond. This inspired me to develop a Healthcare IT Bingo board.

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September 7, 2012

Lisa Suennen

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Business is Booming in the World of HIT Start Ups

All together now, dear readers – repeat after me: Rock Health. Blueprint Health. Health Box. Have I missed any? Healthcare start up/incubator/accelerator programs – call them what you will – are popping up everywhere these days.

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August 24, 2012

Jennifer Dennard

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Nurses and assistants use more IT than physicians

It’s just one report, but based on the results of a recent study by Manhattan Research, policymakers may want to make sure that the array of programs designed to facilitate the use of EHRs and other health IT are aimed at the right healthcare professionals.

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August 1, 2012

Jeff Rowe

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'Age is just a number' -- Does it hold true for EHR adoption?

Older physicians are less likely to use an electronic health record system than their younger counterparts. A recent Health Affairs study found that in 2011 30.8% of physicians older than age 55 were using a basic EHR system, compared with 40% of doctors younger than age 40 and 35.5% of doctors ages 40 to 55.

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July 25, 2012

Kate Ackerman

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Separating professional and hospital records

As patient-centered medical homes and Accountable Care Organizations form, the lines between professional and hospital practice become increasingly murky.

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July 25, 2012

John Halamka

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Whose job is it to create the future?

Predicting where EHRs are going is, of course, more than just a hobby for many people in the healthcare sector.

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July 24, 2012

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74% of Physicians Report EHR Adoption Enhanced Patient Care

The CDC’s Center for National Health Statistics (NCHS) has issued a data brief announcing estimates from the 2011 Physician Workflow Survey regarding the physician adoption of EHRs, which is sponsored by the ONC.

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July 19, 2012

Fred Pennic

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A Coordinated Approach to Care and Population Health Management Driven By IT

There is little question that healthcare is undergoing a significant transformation. Patient-centered, accountable care and pay-for-performance reimbursements are converging to create a unique environment for payers, providers and patients alike.

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July 18, 2012

Sam Rangaswamy

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Yellow Jackets Take on Healthcare's Challenges

It pains me to write this, but Georgia Tech seems to be taking the lead when it comes to healthcare IT research and partnerships.

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June 29, 2012

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ImplementHIT announced today an agreement to provide OptimizeHIT, their patent-pending physician and clinician electronic health records (EHR) software training platform, to CapitalCare Medical Group. All 110 providers and hundreds of clinical and support staff at CapitalCare’s 27 sites will use this online learning software platform to enable EHR clinical adoption and meaningful use. ImplementHIT is the developer of sophisticated, customized education products and services that are driving organization-wide EHR adoption.

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October 18, 2011

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Merge Healthcare receives complete EHR certification for Meaningful Use for radiology

Merge Healthcare (NASDAQ: MRGE), a leading provider of enterprise imaging and interoperability solutions, today announced Merge RIS v7.0 has received the federal government’s “Meaningful Use” stamp of approval, thus becoming the industry’s only major radiology information system (RIS) with complete electronic health record ambulatory certification.

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October 17, 2011

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Shareable Ink Platform awarded ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 EHR Certification

Shareable Ink®, a leading provider of cloud-based software to aid the transition from paper documentation to electronic health records (EHR), today announced that it has achieved 2011/2012 EHR Modular* ONC-ATCB Certification. The award designates the software as capable of supporting providers with Stage 1 Meaningful Use (MU) measures required to qualify for funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). Shareable Ink was certified as an Ambulatory EHR Module on September 30, 2011 under ICSA Labs' ONC-ATCB Electronic Health Record program and is compliant in accordance with the criteria adopted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services.

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October 13, 2011

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Clinical Cloud changes the way clinical trials are done

It's estimated that 75% of all physiological clinical trial data is captured on paper. Clinical Cloud Inc. has found a way to reduce this percentage with electronic source data collection, which forms the core of the clinical trial process.

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October 13, 2011

Cardiology Associates of North Mississippi uses Centricity EMR, Athena PMIS, and White Plume technologies

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Cardiology Associates of North Mississippi (CANM) located in Tupelo, MS, uses White Plume Technologies to fill the EMR gap in their practice between Centricity’s electronic medical record (EMR)/electronic health record (EHR) and Athena’s practice management system (PM system).

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October 13, 2011

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Practice Fusion Connect 2011: the health tech event of the year

Practice Fusion, the fastest growing EMR community in the US, today announced that their second annual free conference, Connect 2011, is sold out. Held at the Masonic Center in San Francisco on November 11, 2011, the event will feature keynote speakers including Ryan Howard, Peter Thiel, Alan Cooper and Daniel Kraft, MD. Farzad Mostashari, MD, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology with the Department of Health and Human Services, will be speaking via live teleconference.

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October 11, 2011

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St. Jude Medical advances its remote patient monitoring system with mobile notifications

St. Jude Medical, Inc., a global medical device company, today announced the launch of its Merlin.net® Patient Care Network (PCN) version 5.0. This update features enhancements to the Internet-based repository of patient and implantable device data that provide physicians easier access to important alerts and improve efficiency of data transmission to electronic health records (EHR).

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October 10, 2011

Elizabeth Hart, Healthcare Industry Solutions

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T-System highlights ED physician efficiency with EHRs at ACEP scientific assembly

T-System, Inc. will demonstrate how going electronic can be both an easy and efficient way to document patient care in the emergency department (ED) at this week's American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) 2011 Scientific Assembly in San Francisco. To showcase the usability and intuitive design of its solutions, T-System will host a "virtual" ED at booth #1502. Booth visitors will be able to visualize the solutions' use in a real patient care setting and walk up and try the solutions for themselves.

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October 10, 2011

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Four more chiropractors successfully meet “Meaningful Use” with the ACOM Health RAPID EHR Software

ACOM Health, a market leader in Chiropractic EHR systems, today announced that it has four additional chiropractors who have now achieved meaningful use by using RAPID Complete EHR certified software. Furthermore, there are another 150 chiropractors who have installed the EHR software before the October 1st deadline and are now in position to qualify for the stimulus in 2011, receiving as much as $6 Million over the term of the incentive program. This is a great milestone that puts ACOM Health in a very unique position as the market leader and way ahead of most of the competitive products in the Chiropractic space.

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October 5, 2011

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NaviNet launches groundbreaking Doc Xchange solution

NaviNet, America’s largest real-time healthcare communications network, serving close to 900,000 healthcare professionals, today announced the launch of the NaviNet Doc Xchange program. NaviNet Doc Xchange is an innovative solution that enables providers to send content-agnostic medical documentation electronically to a variety of trading partners, including other provider offices and hospitals, health plans, government organizations, and health information exchanges (HIEs).

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October 5, 2011

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DR Systems to exhibit imaging-centric Meaningful Use ambulatory EHR at RSNA

DR Systems, one of the most respected names in healthcare information systems, will be exhibiting its MU Imaging EHR -- a complete, cloud-based, imaging-centric ambulatory electronic health record -- at RSNA 2011.

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October 5, 2011

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Kane Community Hospital achieves stage 1 Meaningful Use

Healthland, America's market leader of healthcare information technology solutions for rural hospitals, today announced that Kane Community Hospital has achieved Stage 1 Meaningful Use. Kane Community Hospital, an affiliate of UPMC Hamot, is a 31-bed acute care rural hospital based in Kane, Pa. After a successful 90-day reporting period of its comprehensive electronic health record (EHR) capabilities, the hospital will receive funding under the Medicare EHR Incentive Program.

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September 30, 2011