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Feds' Rampant Use of No-Bid Contracts the Essence of Corruption
Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) David Shulkin just awarded a contract worth billions of dollars to Cerner, a health technology company. Secretary Shulkin, who was seeking a firm to build the VA's new electronic health records system, awarded the contract without even considering proposals from other companies...
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Feds' Rampant Use of No-bid Contracts the Essence of Corruption
Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) David Shulkin just awarded a contract worth billions of dollars to Cerner, a health technology company. Secretary Shulkin, who was seeking a firm to build the VA's new electronic health records system, awarded the contract without even considering proposals from other companies. Such "no-bid" contracts are an outrage. Companies seeking the government's business should compete on price and quality — just like firms that operate exclusively in the private sector...
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Fee Data May Deter Docs From Ordering Labs
Displaying the cost of a test to providers at the time of ordering led to a modest decrease in the number of orders for laboratory studies placed over a 6-month period, investigators reported. Read More »
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Few U.S. Hospitals Can Fully Share Electronic Medical Records
Less than one in three U.S. hospitals can find, send, and receive electronic medical records for patients who receive care somewhere else, a new study suggests. Just 30 percent of hospitals had achieved so-called interoperability as of 2015, the study found. While that’s slight improvement over the previous year, when 25 percent met this goal, it shows hospitals still have a long way to go, researchers report in Health Affairs...
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Fewer Certified EHRs For Stage 2 May Pose Problems For Hospitals, Doc Practices
There is growing concern that far fewer software developers have certified electronic health-record systems for use by healthcare providers under federal Stage 2 meaningful-use requirements than under Stage 1. Read More »
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FHIR And The Future Of Interoperability
There is growing interest in the health care information technology community in an emerging data exchange technology known as FHIR (pronounced “fire”)...
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FHIR App Provides Precision Medicine Support at Point of Care
FHIR is helping to power a new precision medicine oncology app that brings clinical decision support to the point of care. Two of the most intriguing trends in healthcare may be able to work together to bring advanced clinical decision support directly to the point of care, suggest researchers who developed a FHIR-based precision medicine application that integrates with electronic health records...
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Fierce Innovation Awards: Healthcare Edition Program Announces Finalists Humetrix iBlueButton App Recognized
Humetrix, a leading provider of consumer healthcare apps, announced today that its iBlueButton app has been selected as a finalist in this year’s Fierce Innovation Awards: Healthcare Edition. Humetrix’s iBlueButton app was recognized as a finalist in the EHR category of the awards program from the publisher of FierceHealthIT, FierceHealthcare, and FierceMobileHealthcare. Read More »
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Financial Woes At Maine Medical Center
In a memo to its employees last week, one of Maine’s largest health systems said it has suffered an operating loss of $13.4 million in the first half of its fiscal year. Read More »
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Financial Woes At Maine Medical Center: Reading This Blog Might Have Saved Them Millions Of Dollars, And Prevented Massive "Cost Saving Initiatives"
In a memo to its employees last week, one of Maine’s largest health systems said it has suffered an operating loss of $13.4 million in the first half of its fiscal year. Read More »
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Finland and IBM Partner to Develop Personalized Healthcare and Spark Economic Growth with Watson
Tekes – the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation (Tekes) and IBM today announced a partnership that will enable Finland to utilize Watson cognitive computing to help doctors improve the health of its citizens, and strengthen and develop the Finnish innovation and business ecosystem in the fields of health and well-being...
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First Step To Successful EHR Use Is Evaluating Paper Workflow
Every good cook knows that a finished meal is only as good as the ingredients you start with, and the same adage holds true for EHR implementation, a messy recipe if ever there was one. Read More »
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Fitch: Meaningful Use Payments Masking 'Anemic' Revenue Growth
Although Meaningful Use payments will dry up when the incentive program ends, the benefits of electronic health records systems--including quality and efficiency gains--will mitigate the loss, according to global ratings agency Fitch. But the fact that the funds are non-recurring makes makes it tricky to predict the financial impact of EHRs. Read More »
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Five Facts About Veterans’ Health Care
With more than 1,400 hospitals, nursing homes and clinics nationwide, the Department of Veterans Affairs operates the country’s largest health care system. On Veterans Day, here’s a look at how it operates, who it covers and what role it plays in the larger American health care system. Read More »
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Fixing The Background Technologies On Which Health Apps Depend
Developers are flocking to health IT with the laudable goals of making a difference in people’s health (and earning some money in the process). The complex and balkanized field presents numerous barriers to entrepreneurs breaking into the space...
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