Electronic Health Record (EHR)
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MHS Gives Glimpse of Future HIT
In a session so crowded that conference officials closed the doors and effectively locked attendees out, Military Health System acting CIO Karen Guice, MD, offered a glimpse of the future of MHS health IT.
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Midland Memorial Hospital Integrates Patient Education Tool with OpenVista EHR
Midland Memorial Hospital is launching its latest evolution in leading-edge interactive patient education and engagement with the implementation of Allen Technologies’ with the hospital’s [OpenVistA EHR] platform by enabling nursing staff to assign patient education videos directly from the patient’s EHR.
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Military & Government Electronic Health Records Symposium
Technology Training Corporation http://www.ttcus.com announced the “Military and Government Electronic Health Records” to take place in Arlington, VA, November 16-17, 2015. As part of the Omnibus Appropriations Bill, the Federal Government has set goals for the DoD and the VA around the former’s Electronic Health Record selection process and its work with the latter to achieve interagency interoperability with the VistA EHR.
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Military Health Records to Have One-Stop Shop
But here is the good news: The U.S. Defense Department and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) have launched an effort to combine their two electronic health record systems into one. Known as the integrated Electronic Health Record, or iEHR, it aims to ensure that health care records will follow troops for their rest of their lives, beginning from the day they swear in to serve their country. The move will improve medical care for all military community members, including those wounded in combat or trying to process a VA claim.
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Mirth Corporation to Bring the Technology Needed to Make New Orleans a Beacon Community
Mirth Corporation, a provider of commercial open source healthcare information technology, announced that the Crescent City Beacon Community (CBCC), will use its interoperability and care management solutions to connect doctors with the information they need to treat patients effectively, and to improve quality of care across the greater New Orleans area, according to a press release at marketw Read More »
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Mission Essential Solutions
Mission Essential Solutions, LLC (MES), founded in 2013, offers technical solutions aimed at providing robust mobile capabilities needed for disaster response and recovery operations. James Murphy, President and Owner of the company, is a former Marine helicopter pilot with extensive experience in disaster relief operations, flying humanitarian missions in Puerto Rico and Sierra Leone, and supporting relief operations on the ground following an earthquake and a super typhoon in the Philippines. Before retiring from the Marines in 2012, Mr. Murphy worked at the White House Military Office where he worked in disaster and emergency planning for the President of the United States and the Executive Branch Departments and Agencies.
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Mobile Health IT Solutions for Healthier Aging
A report entitled "Using Mobile Technologies for Healthier Aging" was released in March 2013. The report, written by Ada Kwan, was co-sponsored by the mHealth Alliance , United Nations Foundation, and Pfizer. The stated objective of this report was to provide momentum and spur further conversation on ways mobile technologies can help people age better and remain in reasonably good health. Read More »
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Modernizing VistA: Enabling Scalable Interoperability In A Legacy System
While the technical challenges are formidable, leveraging cutting-edge tools and platforms can be part of the solution for achieving fast, secure and scalable interoperability within the mission-critical legacy system. However, the needs of clinical staff must remain paramount in designing solutions. A seemingly elegant systems architecture, for instance, is not viable unless it enables maximum efficiency for the providers who use it to treat the nation’s veterans. Thus, two technology approaches could have substantial effects on performance... Read More »
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More Electronic Health Record Systems Than You Imagined
I had no idea. There is simply a horde, a herd, a whole Wild West stampede of electronic health-record systems out there....[Earlier] this month, Jodi Daniel, director of the Office of Policy and Research within the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, presented a slide at an Health Information Technology Policy Committee meeting with some health IT market numbers that I found nothing short of astonishing. Read More »
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Most RECs Plan To Stay Open For Business
Federal funding for most regional extension centers is set to dry up by late this year or early next, but most of them still plan to keep their doors open, according to the 2014 HIMSS Regional Extension Center Survey...
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Mostashari: 'Breathtaking Progress' on EHR Front
The results of the health IT incentive program aimed at driving the adoption of electronic health records by hospitals and physicians have been "breathtaking," Farzad Mostashari, MD, asserted in his keynote address at HIMSS12 on Thursday. "We've made more progress in two years than we've made in 20," said Mostashari, national coordinator for health information technology. Read More »
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Mother Jones piece hits Epic hard: 5 criticisms of the EHR vendor
For a company that is notorious for its lack of media interaction, Epic Systems often finds itself in headlines, for better or for worse. The latest Epic media storm was delivered by a Mother Jones piece in which the author criticized the vendor and the health IT marketplace as failing in its mission to help patients and save money through digitization. Author Patrick Caldwell wrote the healthcare industry has largely underachieved in its goal to digitize medical records and cut waste and costs associated with paper records.
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MU Stage 2 to Focus on Sharing, Patient Engagement, CSC Report Says
Healthcare providers should double down on developing capabilities to coordinate care, engage with their patients, and electronically capture the data needed for quality reporting. They are likely to be required in the proposed rule for stage 2 of meaningful use, expected later this month. Read More »
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Muckleshoot Indian Tribe Selects DrCloudEMR™ to Manage Behavioral Health Services
Muckleshoot Indian Tribe based in the State of Washington, a leader in the field of treatment for alcoholism, drug addiction and mental health for over fifty years, selects DrCloud Healthcare Solutions’ Electronic Health Record (EHR) system, DrCloudEMR™ to manage patient health care at their multiple facilities on the Muckleshoot Reservation. Read More »
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My Original Design Notes for the Security System for VistA and CHCS
Today is the 33rd anniversary of the 1978 Oklahoma City kickoff meeting for what was then called the CASS (Computer Assisted Systems Support Staff), later to be called Decentralized Hospital Computer Program, which today is called the VistA EHR. We had groups from the VA, DoD, Indian Health Service, and other academia. This is where we laid out the basic structure of the metadata (D Read More »
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