Innovative healthcare software provider IMS MAXIMS and Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust are to share the story behind the successful deployment of the UK’s first open source electronic patient record (EPR) at eHealth major industry event, EHI Live. The trust’s director of information, Malcolm Senior, and the CEO of IMS MAXIMS, Shane Tickell, will address delegates in the digital health industry for the first time since the go-live of the system last month.
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Software Is About to Eat Chronic Disease and Save Us
Phineas Barnes | Business Insider | February 9, 2012
Changes are coming. Unprecedented access to data about providers, results of procedures and quality of hospitals and other care giving institutions will be expanding in amazing ways as electronic health records legislation ripples through the industry. The BlueButton Health project is a great example and this is just the beginning. Read More »
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Software Upgrade Knocks Out Defense Health Record System
Bob Brewin | Nextgov | January 19, 2012
The Military Health System shut down the AHLTA clinical data repository -- which stores 9.7 million electronic records for active-duty and retired military personnel and their families -- after experiencing problems with a commercial software package that manages data storage, a top MHS official told Nextgov.
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Sorry VistA, DoD's health record won't be open source
Molly Bernhart Walker | FierceGovernmentIT | February 25, 2015
The Defense Department's next electronic health record will not be based on the open source architecture that supports the Veterans Affairs Department's EHR. A change to the Defense Healthcare Management System Modernization solicitation narrowed down the field of contractors vying for the $11 billion program – eliminating the only proposed solution built on the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture, or VistA.
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Southcoast Health Cutting Dozens of Jobs on Heels of Expensive Epic Implementation
Jessica Bartlett | Boston Business Journal | March 30, 2016
Stung by losses linked to costly technology upgrades, Southcoast Health is laying off 95 employees just a year after finalizing a similar staffing cut.The cuts represent 1 percent of Southcoast’s 7,251 workforce, and will happen across the care provider's three hospitals in Fall River, Wareham and New Bedford. All levels of hospital staff will be affected, officials said. Southcoast employees were notified of the cut Wednesday morning...
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Speech Recognition Proving Its Worth
Mike Miliard | Healthcare IT News | June 20, 2014
While wary clinicians remain a big hurdle, nine out of 10 hospitals plan to expand their use of front-end speech deployment, according to a new KLAS report. The study, "Front-End Speech 2014: Functionality Doesn't Trump Physician Resistance," found that 50 percent of providers polled cited skeptical end-users as one of the biggest barriers to more successful uptake of speech recognition.
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State University of New York at Albany Launches VistA EHR Studies Program
By Luis Ibáñez | April 3, 2014
The Albany Campus of the State University of New York (SUNY) has launched a new VistA EHR Studies program—the most comprehensive one of its kind in the United States. The program, which began on March 24, provides students the basis to learn and manage VistA’s fast-growing open source electronic health record (EHR) system. The decision to launch the full program follows a successful pilot course taught at the university this past fall. Read More »
States, Vendors Form Workgroup to Up EHR/HIE Adoption
Dr. John D. Halamka | Med City News | November 9, 2011
Today, the EHR/HIE Interoperability Workgroup, originally formed by the New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC), will announce the collaborative work of seven states (California, Colorado, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Oregon), eight EHR vendors (Allscripts, eClinicalWorks, e-MDs, Greenway, McKesson Physician Practice Solutions, NextGen Healthcare, Sage, and Siemens Healthcar Read More »
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Stuart Smith's Letter To The Register
Stuart Smith | Boothbay Register | May 1, 2013
I do question the $150 million figure. I think it is extremely high and Portland has had a real failure in its implementation. So much so that it looks like LCH will not have a real integrated EMR until 2015 and financial software problems exemplify a major failure of MH to create any real benefit to the State. Millions of dollars have been charged to member hospitals and staff time (salaries and mileage) over the past 2-3 years with no benefit... Read More »
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Study: EHR-Related Safety Issues Linger Long After Implementation
Staff Writer | iHealthBeat | June 23, 2014
Patient safety issues stemming from electronic health record systems continue long after implementation, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Modern Healthcare reports...
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Study: Half of Large Hospitals Looking to Make New EHR Purchase
Greg Slabodkin | Health Data Management | February 28, 2014
By 2016, nearly half of U.S. large hospitals (200 or more beds) will be making a new EHR purchase, finds a new report from Orem, Utah-based KLAS. Nevertheless, only 22 percent of those buying decisions "may still be up for grabs," according to an announcement from the research firm. Read More »
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Study: Hospitals in for rough ride in 2014
Richard Craver | Winston-Salem Journal | December 20, 2013
Not-for-profit hospitals are in for another rough economic ride in 2014, reflecting the cumulative impact of changing economic trends over the past six years and new financial and technology challenges. Read More »
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Study: Most U.S. Hospitals Not Participating In Health Data Exchanges
Staff Writer | iHealthBeat | July 1, 2014
The majority of hospitals in the U.S. do not participate in health information exchanges, and there is substantial variation in participation rates among states, according to a new study published in Healthcare: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation, Health Data Management reports...
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Success Of Blue Button Initiative Tied To MU Program
Greg Slabodkin | Health Data Management | July 1, 2014
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT this fall will launch a national campaign to boost consumer use of Blue Button technology to securely access their health records electronically...The national Blue Button campaign, which runs from Sept. 15 to Oct. 6, will include public service announcements posted on partner websites to get the word out on how consumers can access their own health data.
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Success Story of the UK’s First Open Source EHR/EPR to be Revealed at EHI Live
Press Release |
IMS MAXIMS |
October 26, 2015
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SunCoast RHIO
Suncoast is a Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO) that provides health information transfer and technology interoperability solutions. It is focused on government approved and certified software and employs clinicians who work with medical providers. Suncoast transmits quality measures in the form of PQRS, now MIPS, and for Hospital eCQM’s. Read More »
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