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Health IT Centers of the Country: Unite!
The 62 regional extension centers created by the federal government to help small medical practices evaluate and adopt electronic health records have united to form a national association to advocate for the continued support of health IT. Read More »
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Health IT Helps Fight the War at Home
Taken together, all these IT initiatives – whether undertaken by VA or vendors or veterans themselves – point to big shift in ways care is delivered for wounded service members. With so many coming home, with so many different injuries, there's never been a better time for it to happen... Read More »
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Health IT Is Driving Healthcare Consolidation
The cost and time involved in adopting electronic health records is playing a key role in physicians deciding to sell their medical practices to hospital systems, says the editor of Healthcare Technology Online.
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Health IT Market in Growth Mode
The healthcare IT applications market continues to grow, according to a new Research and Markets report, which projects that by 2017 the global market will expand at a compound annual growth rate of 7.0 percent . Read More »
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Health IT Now recommends HHS, Congress take steps against non-interoperable systems
Health IT Now, buoyed by RAND's recent report on electronic health records, has called on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Congress to "decertify systems that require additional modules, expenses, and customization to share data," and to investigate business practices that prohibit or restrict data sharing in federal incentive programs.
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Health IT Orthodoxy after the Supreme Court
The focus of ACA attention will turn to results or repeal. And while a different decision could have had ACA become a weight on HITECH and health information technology (HIT), the principally bi-partisan nature of the HIT agenda should now refocus attention almost exclusively on results for it. Read More »
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Health IT Systems in 2040
Health IT tools lack proof of effectiveness
There are myriad apps, tools and technologies entering the healthcare marketplace--but most lack proof that they are helping consumers battle disease and stay healthy, according to an article in Fortune. To that end, hospitals must be very careful when adopting health IT, according to Richard Milani, chief clinical transformation officer at Ochsner Health System. "You want to be comfortable that the technology you're utilizing is reliable and accurate," Milani tells Fortune. "That's a genuine concern. If you have some scientific data or peer-reviewed data to back it up, that certainly makes it a little easier."
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Health Officials Axed Amid Probe For Improper Billing
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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Health Organizations Implore Congress to Fund Public Health Surveillance Systems
HLN Consulting joined more than eighty organizations, institutions, and companies in imploring Congress to fund public health surveillance systems. The appropriations request letters – one to the House and one to the Senate – seek one billion in funding over ten years (and $100 million in FY 2020) for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This funding would allow CDC, state, local, tribal, and territorial health departments to move from sluggish, manual, paper-based data collection to seamless, automated, interoperable IT systems and to recruit and retain skilled data scientists to use them.
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Health Reform Leaders Focus on Patient Access to Records as Key Barrier
A convocation of trend-setters and organizational leaders in U.S. health care was called together in Washington last Monday, June 4. The attendees advised two government organizations driving health reform--the Office of the National Coordinator at the Dept. of Health and Human Services, and the Dept. of Veteran Affairs--how to push forward one of their top goals, patient engagement.
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Healthcare Has Cost Problems, but IT and EHRs Do Not Have to be One of Them
I’m proud to lead a group of intelligent and energetic technology professionals committed to developing a robust healthcare IT system that is (1) easy for clinicians to use, (2) improves patient health and (3) doesn’t bankrupt hospital budgets. We think any sustainable system must have those three key requirements. And how is healthcare doing thus far? The EHRs available today are developing rapidly. Vendors are making frequent and impactful improvements to improve system usability. Clinicians are getting better at maximizing the contribution healthcare IT makes to patient health and safety. It’s not hard to see how healthcare IT can meet the first two requirements and broadly contribute to improved healthcare.
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Healthcare Tech Firm's, Phyaura® EHR v4.0 is Now Federally Certified as a Complete Electronic Health Record (EHR)
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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Healthcare Technology Engineering Firm, Achieve Health, Will Sponsor Health 2.0 Fall Conference To Be Held In Santa Clara, CA
Achieve Health will be an exhibitor & sponsor at the 8th installment of the annual conference which highlights innovations in health and healthcare. The three day event will run from September 21st - 24th, 2014...
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Healtheway Announces 2015 Board Members
Healtheway, a non-profit, public-private collaborative focused on advancing the implementation of interoperable health information exchange, today announced the members of its board of directors for fiscal year 2015. The new board includes a combination of individuals who have served on the board for many years as well as new additions to the organization's leadership structure...
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