As we move from fee for service to alternative payment models/value-based purchasing we will increasingly measure our progress based on outcomes and total medical expense. HealthKit was an enabler that led Beth Israel Deaconess to create BIDMC@Home, an iPhone and iPad app that uploads internet of things (blood pressure cuff, glucometer, scale, activity, sleep data etc.) to our electronic health record. CareKit, announced by Apple this week, takes us one step further on our wellness-focused journey.
Electronic Health Record (EHR)
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Brazil studies the adoption of openEHR
Jussara Macedo Rotzsch | E-Health Reporter | August 22, 2012
The country sets new standards and methods for its National Electronic Health Record Project...As part of the implementation process for stage III of government decree No. 2.073, OF THE 31ST AUGUST 2011, a national EHR Workshop was held aimed at defining the methods and standards to be used for the Brazilian EHR Project (RES-National)...
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British Can Learn from VA on Telehealth
Joseph Conn | Modern Healthcare | January 19, 2012
A report by a London-based, physician-led think tank concludes that the British National Health Service would do well to emulate the telehealth services developed by the Veterans Health Administration, the healthcare operation of the U.S. Veterans Affairs Department.
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BT Bets on Medsphere's 'Open' EHR
Bernie Monegain | Healthcare IT News | January 13, 2015
Medsphere Systems and BT have agreed to jointly promote Medsphere's OpenVista EHR under a software-as-a-service, or SaaS, model. The goal, executives from both companies say, is to relieve hospitals of the many costly and burdensome IT responsibilities.
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BT to Offer Medsphere’s OpenVista Electronic Health Record
Press Release |
Medsphere, BT |
January 13, 2015
Open source health IT leader and established international IT services provider to promote SaaS open-platform solution Read More »
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Butler Selected to lead DOD-VA iEHR Efforts
Mary Mosquera | Government Health IT | March 1, 2012
Barclay Butler, a senior health IT manager in private and military sectors, has been named to lead the interagency office that will coordinate the deployment of the VA-DOD integrated electronic health record (iEHR). Butler became director of the Interagency Program Office effective Feb. 27, according to a Defense Department memo and confirmed by the Veterans Affairs Department. Read More »
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Can Data Provide the Trust we Need in Health Care?
By Andy Oram | March 30, 2014
One of the problems dragging down the US health care system is that nobody trusts one another. Most of us, as individuals, place faith in our personal health care providers, which may or may not be warranted. But on a larger scale we’re all suspicious of each other... Read More »
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Care Management Solutions (CMS)
Care Management Solutions (CMS) is based in Rutland, Vermont and was incorporated in 1995; a successful medical billing and electronic medical records company with extensive experience using and deploying OpenEMR. CMS has hosted the community version of OpenEMR in the cloud since 2012 with a few customizations to help paper-based offices migrate their workflow to an effective electronic solution while maximizing productivity.
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CareKit as an Enabler for Patient Generated Healthcare Data
By John D. Halamka, MD | March 23, 2016
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careMESH Launches its HL7 FHIR-Based Provider Directory in the District of Columbia
Press Release |
careMESH, CRISP DC |
November 12, 2019
careMESH, the only service provider to guarantee digital delivery of patient health information to any US-based clinician, today announced that is has implemented its National Provider Directory for users of the DC Health Information Exchange (HIE) in partnership with the Chesapeake Regional Information System for our Patients (CRISP)."We deployed the careMESH directory so that our DC providers would have a central place to locate the most up-to-date information about each other including their preferred communication preferences and digital contact information," said Ryan Bramble, Executive Director for CRISP DC. Read More »
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careMESH Raises $5M in Seed Funding to Scale Integration of its Healthcare Communications Platform
Press Release |
careMESH |
June 16, 2020
careMESH today announced that it has closed an initial $5M seed round led by Assurance Capital and Pavey Family Investments, with participation by other early-stage investor funds and individuals. The funding will be used to scale adoption of its first-of-a-kind communications platform, which brings a National Provider Directory, patient event notifications, secure communications, and transition of care workflows into a single service for hospitals, health systems and other healthcare delivery organizations
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careMESH Receives 2015 Edition ONC Health IT Certification
Press Release |
careMESH |
September 18, 2019
careMESH, the only service provider to guarantee digital delivery of patient health information to any U.S.-based clinician, announced that it has achieved ONC-Health IT 2015 Edition Health IT Module Certification for reporting on the delivery of transitions of care. This ONC-Health IT Certification gives customers the assurance that careMESH can be used for digital communications and its reports can be used in Promoting Interoperability attestation. "Achieving 2015 ONC certification was important so that our customers could not only rely on careMESH for digital communications with the outside world, but also on our reports for attestation," said careMESH President and COO, Justin Sims.
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careMESH to Participate in the CMS Electronic Medical Documentation Interoperability Program
Press Release |
careMESH |
February 8, 2019
careMESH®, the only service provider that guarantees 100% digital delivery of referrals and care transitions to any healthcare organization nationwide, announced today that it has joined the Electronic Medical Documentation Interoperability (EMDI) program of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)...Under the program, careMESH will partner with a hospital to leverage its existing Electronic Health Record (EHR) system to deliver digital referrals and care transitions to post-acute healthcare providers. Receiving clinicians will be able to reply to the sender, save patient records to their own EHR, and close referral loops through automated workflow tools. This allows both the hospital and the receiving providers they interact with to...
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CarePortMD Picks BlueEHR-HITaaS eHealth Platform to Roll Out Kiosk-Delivered Telemedicine
Press Release |
CarePortMD, ZH Healthcare, Inc. |
September 27, 2018
ZH Healthcare, pioneers in Health IT as a Service (HITaaS®), with its product blueEHR® and CarePortMD announced today an agreement for the use of ZH Healthcare’s blueEHR® HITaaS® platform in the CarePortMD rollout of kiosk-based telemedicine services. “We are pleased to partner with CarePortMD. Their use of blueEHR® will greatly accelerate their time to market and allow them to facilitate medical services for their audience.” states Shameem C Hameed, CEO of ZH Healthcare. HITaaS® allows eHealth developers and existing applications to utilize preexisting components and processes. The use of BlueEHR® will allow CarePortMD to get to market faster than developing a standalone telemedicine module for their system.
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Case For Dropping MU Stages 2 And 3
Dale Sanders | Healthcare IT News | April 28, 2014
Federal meaningful use requirements are well intentioned, but like a teacher who “teaches to the test,” the federal meaningful use program created a very complicated system that might pass the test of meaningful use stages, but is not producing meaningful results for patients and clinicians...
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