The Department of Health and Humans Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) today announced the Phase 2 winners of the Move Health Data Forward Challenge. Winning submissions will now move on to the challenge’s last phase to develop applications that will allow individuals to share their personal health information safely and securely with their health care providers, family members or other caregivers...
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Health Information Exchange (HIE) Implementations Encounter Obstacles
Dylan Scott | Governing | February 9, 2012
States are also pursuing diverse policies to address budgetary concerns about HIEs, according to Brookings. Those concerns are substantial: only 10 percent of HIEs self-report that they have a sustainable business model. Even Indiana, one of the oldest and most respected state exchanges, had an operating loss of nearly $275,000 in 2010.
Health IT Czar: Five Things You Need to Know
John Pulley | NextGov | January 27, 2012
The nation's health IT czar polished off his crystal ball this week and predicted five major health IT trends for the year. Dr. Farzad Mostashari, national coordinator for health IT, shared the prognostications on his office's Health IT Buzz blog: Read More »
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Health IT Data and Studies
Staff | HealthIT.Gov | January 1, 2012
Authors from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) published a review in the March issue of Health Affairs focusing on the effects of health information technology (health IT). The study found predominantly positive effects on key aspects of care including quality and efficiency. In addition, providers outside of large integrated care networks, the original innovators in health IT, are beginning to implement, evaluate, and achieve benefits from similar systems.
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Health IT Interoperability Reimagined!
By John Nebergall | July 19, 2018
The evolution of fax from paper-based to cloud transmission and storage (CloudFax) is a key step that enables CloudFax providers to comply with HIPAA and other regulations. Further strengthening of CloudFax as a key component in Healthcare Information Systems (HIS) will be its evolution into a Direct Messaging platform that enables the seamless exchange of Patient Health Information (PHI) between the diverse data and document management systems used by labs, pharmacies, doctor's offices, hospitals, and billing providers. CloudFax will support and contribute to the goals of interoperability. Consider:
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Health IT Leads in Jobs Recovery
Bernie Monegain | Healthcare IT News | January 10, 2012
Healthcare IT is among the leading markets of the employment recovery that has occurred in recent months, according to MedZilla.com, a healthcare, pharmaceutical, and biotech employment information website.
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Health IT Taking Flight – What Is in Store for the Year Ahead
Farzad Mostashari,MD | Healthcare IT News | January 31, 2012
Earlier this month, I wrote about some of the most important and notable highlights in the world of health IT and ONC over the past year. The achievements of 2011 built on hard work and progress, which has been underway for many years.The HITECH Act is helping to accelerate this momentum—like a turbocharger in a racecar. Read More »
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Health Officials Axed Amid Probe For Improper Billing
Yoav Gonen | New York Post | August 17, 2015
Three top officials with the city’s Health and Hospitals Corp. have been forced out amid a probe of improper billing for a $764 million revamp of its records system, The Post has learned. Chief Information Officer Bert Robles was forced to resign from his $296,000-a-year job in February while investigators were looking into allegations, including claims that his domestic partner received taxpayer-funded training on the new electronic medical records — even though she doesn’t even work for HHC.
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Healthcare Needs a Big Data Infusion
Stacey Higginbotham | GigaOM | March 9, 2012
To improve medicine and health IT, we need a big heaping dose of data. That’s the takeaway from a conversation with Aneesh Chopra, the former U.S. CTO and assistant to President Obama, at South by Southwest in Austin on Friday. Read More »
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Healthcare Tech Firm's, Phyaura® EHR v4.0 is Now Federally Certified as a Complete Electronic Health Record (EHR)
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Phyaura, LLC |
May 2, 2011
Phyaura, LLC, a Tampa Bay-based healthcare technology company, has received the federal government’s “meaningful use” stamp of approval by earning certification under the Drummond Group's Electronic Health Records Office of the National Coordinator Authorized Testing and Certification Body (ONC-ATCB) program.Tested and certified under the Drummond Group's Electronic Health Records Office, the software is 2011/2012 compliant in accordance with the criteria adopted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. This certification officially deems PHYAURA® EHR capable of enabling doctors and other health providers to qualify for funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
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Healtheway Announces Appointment of Carequality Leadership
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Healtheway, Carequality |
November 3, 2014
Leadership Committees Include Representation From Providers, Pharmacies, Long-Term and Post-Acute Care, Consumers, Government, Standards Development Organizations and Vendors Read More »
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HHC Tech Leaders out amid Billing Probe of EMR Implementation
Katie Dvorak | Fierce EMR | August 19, 2015
Four top leaders at New York City's Health and Hospitals Corp. have left the organization after an investigation into improper billing for a revamp of its electronic medical record system. Internal documents set the cost of the project at about $1.4 billion, which is nearly double the stated cost, according to a report from the New York Post.
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HHS And ONC Invest $28 Million In Health Information Exchange Grants
Karen B. DeSalvo and Ahmed E. Haque | Health It Buzz | February 3, 2015
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Burwell announced this morning an important Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) funding opportunity, which is part of a Department-wide effort to achieve the safe and secure exchange and use of electronic health information to improve health and transform care...
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HHS Announces the Move Health Data Forward Phase 2 Challenge Winners
Press Release |
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
February 21, 2017
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HHS Proposes Path To Improve Health Technology And Transform Care
Press Release |
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
January 30, 2015
ONC issues draft nationwide health IT Interoperability Roadmap; Implementation resources also released as first deliverable...
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