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Electronic Records Mitigate Against Malpractice
Electronic health records appear to significantly reduce the risk of malpractice claims, according to a study published this month in JAMA’S Archives of Internal Medicine. Read More »
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EMR Direct Now Integrated with OpenEMR
is on a mission to modernize medical work flow and improve patient care by simplifying healthcare interoperability. The company is committed to developing technologies that protect patient privacy, improve the quality and coordination of care, increase productivity, and reduce costs. Recently, EMR Direct donated its code to OpenEMR which integrated their solution into OpenEMR version 4.1.2 They have also announced their participation in the Tennessee Health eShare program, facilitating access to Direct messaging for healthcare providers across that state. Read More »
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EMR Technical Solutions Announces Hosting Initiative For Health Insurance Exchange
Our comprehensive solutions integrate the multiple aspects of health insurance delivery—including a consumer portal, eligibility determinations, financial services, plan enrollment, call center and customer support, enhanced privacy, and program administration. EMR Technical Solutions can help your state deliver a comprehensive, interoperable HIX system that connects new and existing government and private sector systems within a consistent architecture. Read More »
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Enroute to Health Datapalooza, Esri’s Davenhall Sees Opportunity in Apps
The Health Datapalooza, which began in 2010 as the Community Health Data Initiative, convenes today and continues through tomorrow in Washington, DC. An estimated 1,200 people are expected to attend the conference, which opened this morning at the Washington Convention Center... Read More »
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Epic Systems, Leading Defense EHR Bidder, Slammed For Lack Of Interoperability
Epic Systems, considered the front-runner for the Defense Department’s $11 billion electronic health record contract, has come under sustained criticism for lack of interoperability with other EHRs, including most recently a front-page story in The New York Times last Sunday...
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ERP Provider Introduces Integrated ONC-certified EHR Module
Fort Wayne, Indiana-based Intellitek Systems today announced the addition of “EHR by Intellitek” to The Intellitek Open Enterprise Application Suite. EHR by Intellitek is built on top of ICSA Labs-certified OpenEMR, and will potentially qualify Eligible Providers that can demonstrate CMS’ definition of “meaningful use” to capture incentive funds made available through ARRA (American Reinvestment andRecovery Act). Read More »
Europeans Joining Forces to Promote Open Source Software in Healthcare
Belgian, British and German advocates of open source in healthcare want to join efforts, hoping to raise interest, and to strengthen the network of healthcare software specialists. A conference is tentatively being planned in London (UK) early next year. “Hospitals and other healthcare organizations, medical specialists and general practitioners are reluctant to adopt open source software”, says Etienne Saliez, a Belgian retired medical IT systems specialist. “What is needed is a strong network of professional support services providers of open source solutions” he adds.
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Fast Forward: FCC Enhances Spectrum Access to Spur Wireless and Mobile Health Care Innovation
Talk about fast forwarding health care into the future: Earlier this month, FCC Chairman Genachowski announced a plan for enhanced spectrum access for testing new wireless health innovations, with the goal of “speeding new mobile and wireless health technologies to market” to create a “wireless health care revolution.” Read More »
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Fax Technologies Take Center Stage at HIMSS19 Exhibition
One of the most surprising developments at HIMSS19 is the large number of companies exhibiting their Fax Technologies. Long derided by reporters, health IT consultants, and EHR vendors, fax technologies have been growing in leaps and bounds while EHRs continue to fail to deliver interoperability. Just a couple of years ago faxes were used in around 75% of medical records exchanges. Latest numbers indicate that faxes are now used to exchange more than 85% of medical records. Most people would react in horror to such figures. How could physicians and medical personnel rely on antiquated paper technologies like faxes? The real story to be found on the exhibit floor at the HIMSS 2019 conference is that what we are seeing is a rapid transition to digital fax technologies and platforms. And this transition is taking place because physicians and medical staff have figured out they work!
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Fax Technology is the Cornerstone of Interoperability. Here's Why.
Fax is the dominant information exchange technology in U.S. healthcare, outpacing secure direct messaging 25-to-1. Most of that is exchanged using inefficient and unsecure machines. With the emergence of cloud-based fax technology to facilitate secure system-to-system document transfer, the use of cloud fax needs to be part of every CTO's/CIO's digital strategy...The evolution of fax from paper-based to cloud transmission and storage - Cloud Fax Technology (CFT) - is a key step that enables providers to comply with HIPAA and other regulations. Further strengthening CFT as a key component in Healthcare Information Systems (HIS) is its evolution into Direct Messaging platforms, enabling the seamless exchange of Patient Health Information (PHI) between the diverse data and document management systems used by labs, pharmacies, doctor's offices, hospitals, and billing providers. CFT supports and contributes to the goal of interoperability...
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FDA Guidance On Medical Device Cybersecurity: Too Little Too Late?
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has taken an important step forward in better protecting patients and their data with the release of new guidelines on managing cybersecurity risks of medical devices this week. Despite being a step in the right direction, it unfortunately comes late...
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FDA Won't Regulate Medical Device Data Systems
Draft guidance published Friday by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration seemingly paves the way for smoother medical device interoperability by lowering the burden on developers of medical device data systems (MDDS) to comply with agency requirements...
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Fed Health IT Spending: $6.5 Billion By 2016
Federal health IT spending will increase from $4.5 billion in 2011 to $6.5 billion in 2016, which represents a compound annual growth rate of 7.5%, according to a GovWin IQ research study released by Deltek.
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Federal Advisers Share Comments, Concerns About Draft Interoperability Road Map
In presenting an updated version of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT's draft interoperability road map to a joint meeting of the federal Health IT Policy and Standards Committees on Wednesday, Erica Galvez, ONC's interoperability and exchange portfolio manager, made clear that many efforts going forward will be about balance and tradeoffs...
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Federal Incentive Payments For EHRs To Doctors And Hospitals Edge $24 Billion
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services paid out the equivalent of the gross national product of Costa Rica -- $23.7 billion -- to hospitals and medical professionals from 2011 through April 2014 to adopt electronic health records.
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