May 15, 2012 | Bernie Monegain
Allscripts had a great fall. CEO Glen Tullman says he and his team will put the EHR company together again -- better and stronger. He talks about what went wrong, the difficulties of integration, plans for recovery and Allscripts' future in the market.

May 14, 2012 | Mary Mosquera
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology is calling for public comment on proposals for rules of the road to govern the nationwide health information network (NwHIN).

May 10, 2012 | Bernie Monegain
Patients receiving telemonitoring along with high blood pressure management support from a pharmacist were more likely to lower their blood pressure than those without the support, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Scientific Sessions 2012.

May 10, 2012 | Mary Mosquera
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has published the names, business phone numbers, and business addresses of Medicare providers that have demonstrated meaningful use of an electronic health record and received an incentive payment as of March 2012.

May 9, 2012 | Bernie Monegain
AHIMA has said it before, and it is saying it again. Delaying ICD-10 deadlines is not a good idea. However in a comment letter filed Wednesday with the Department of Health and Human Services, the organization said it would continue to work with HHS to ensure the delay would be as short as possible.

April 16, 2012 | On Demand Webinars
Learn more about what is being accomplished in communities that are coordinating healthcare. Jason Colquitt, director of research services from Greenway Medical Technologies, will share insights on how community connectivity is helping provide clearer analytics, improved clinical and financial outcomes and improving the health and quality of life of individuals and the community at large. Rebecca Little, director of operations at Genesis OB/GYN, Tucson, AZ, will share how her practice directly connects to hospitals in her community to share patient data, and how this connectivity is helping increase care coordination.

March 30, 2012 | On Demand Webinars
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is one of the premier academic medical centers in the world and among the first customers of Microsoft Amalga. Hear the Director of IT at NYP talk about the organizationís strategic use of Amalga as a clinical data repository that enables the health system to improve processes, performance, and patient care. The webinar will address how NYP uses Amalga to achieve compliance for inpatient and outpatient clinical quality measures, reduce readmissions for congestive heart failure, and reduce venous thromboembolic events. The presentation will also covers how NYP connects Amalga to Microsoft HealthVault to meet meaningful use objectives for patient engagement.

March 22, 2012 | White Papers
The U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services announced in February 2012 that nearly 2,000 hospitals received incentive payments under the CMMS’ <a href="/directory/electronic-health-record-ehr" target="_blank" class="directory-item-link">EHR</a> Incentive Programs. In addition, 85 percent of hospitals now report that by 2015 they intend to take advantage of the incentive payments. With the competitive inpatient market moving toward critical mass, many hospitals face the challenge of meeting Stage 1 MU criteria. Forward-thinking hospitals and health systems are approaching patient education beyond checking a box on their way to qualifying for incentive payments. Learn how Ochsner Health System now provides consistent patient education materials based on evidence-based medicine to its clinicians across its seven hospitals and 40 clinics.

March 5, 2012 | On Demand Webinars
Learn from Associate CIO, John P. Donohue at University of Pennsylvania Health System and Avaya How to Leverage Mobility and Network Readiness Solutions for Your Health System Clinicians. As the delivery of healthcare changes, UPHS is leveraging mobile communications technology to improve clinical communications. Integrating mobile communications with traditional telephony capabilities allows for more agile and responsive communications across the Health System.

March 1, 2012 | White Papers
Computer technology has become a vital component of patient care in hospitals and other healthcare facilities, but has it also introduced new threats to those patients? Research indicates that computer keyboards can act as reservoirs for microorganisms and bacteria that can be cross-transmitted via the hands of healthcare providers. This free white paper examines the risks associated with these bacterial conditions in keyboards and how they can be overcome.

February 1, 2012 | Chad Johnson
With Meaningful Use requirements, connecting to Health Information Exchanges, coordinating data flow in Accountable Care Organizations, updating devices to ICD-10 codes and general interoperability projects, there is a tremendous amount of work going on in Health IT.

January 20, 2012 | Jennifer Dennard
The phrase “Technology Saves Lives” seems pretty straightforward when you first read it. “Well, yes,” you might say. “Technology sure does save lives!” But when you read more than 400 real-life stories about just how technology does that, the phrase takes on a whole new level of importance.

January 13, 2012 | Jennifer Dennard
It’s not often that morning radio inspires me to write a blog post, but the latest bit from The Bert Show here in Atlanta surprisingly provided a bit of inspiration this morning.

January 5, 2012 | Christina Thielst
When will our employees learn not to identify patients on Facebook or any other social media site?

December 8, 2011 | Jim Rosenblum
In recent months, consumers in various cities across the country have been presented with billboards that advertise their local hospital's emergency room wait times in an effort to attract new patients.

March 8, 2012 | Industry News Release
University Health System, the lead trauma center for South Texas, will use Allscripts Community Record, powered by dbMotion, to share patient data with its facilities and the University of Texas (UT) Health Science Center San Antonio. The Allscripts solution will help provide a single patient record for the many physicians and patients who use both facilities.

January 3, 2012 | Industry News Release
DR Systems, the leading independent provider of medical imaging and information systems, announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued to the company a new patent, which relates to tracking portions of medical images that are displayed according to particular display parameters, such as at a particular resolution.

November 2, 2011 | Industry News Release
Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that Houston Healthcare has selected ProVation® Order Sets, powered by UpToDate® Decision Support, as the electronic order set solution at Houston Medical Center and Perry Hospital.

October 27, 2011 | Industry News Release
Essence Group Holdings Corporation (EGHC) today announced that BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners, managed by Sandbox Industries, has joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Camden Partners in a private investment in Essence.

October 27, 2011 | Industry News Release
he U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has awarded Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), an international communications and information technology company, a $5.3 million contract to provide remediation to the VA’s Health Administration Center (HAC) Cache System to address new medical coding standards. This is a two-year contract with three optional tasks.