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CHIME Time: Hitting the wall on meaningful use
However, these recent events pale compared with the energy and attention we're giving to achieve Stage 2 meaningful-use incentives for electronic health-record systems. We are discovering vendor interoperability issues daily. Read More »
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For Hospitals on the Edge, Health IT is the Tipping Point
Without question, massive health IT expense and the predominant proprietary IT model are threats to a hospital or health system’s financial viability, to its solvency. We’re seeing some examples even now. Michigan’s Henry Ford Health System recently reported a 15 percent decrease in net income as a result of uncompensated care and $36 million spent on a proprietary EHR system. According to health system CEO Nancy Schlichting, “We knew that 2012 and 2013 would not be easy years for the system because of the Epic costs.” Read More »
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Get Set For The Digital Health Festival
EHealth Insider is launching a new Digital Health Festival to “take the pulse of digital health.” Taking inspiration from music and cultural festivals, there will be a series of conferences, meetings and social events taking place at different venues at different times from 30 April to 16 May.
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Halamka's Notes on the November HIT Standards Committee Meeting
The November HIT Standards Committee focused on “asynchronous bilateral cutover” - the compatibility of different CCDA payloads, healthcare IT that supports long term services and support, an update on the Standards & Interoperability projects, a discussion of data provenance efforts, and the HITSC workgroup organization. Read More »
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Health eTime Scheduler: the Winning Solution
On October 3, 2013, the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced the winners of its Medical Appointment Scheduling Contest. The Health eTime solution, developed by MedRed LLC, BT and VISTA Expertise Network, was named as 1st Place winner and awarded a $1.85 million prize. VA evaluators determined that Health eTime best instantiated their next generation scheduling requirements...What follows is a summation of the contest process, our efforts, as well as details of the emerging Health eTime solution. Read More »
Health eTime Wins VA Medical Appointment Scheduling Contest to Enhance Care for Veterans
Application developed by MedRed, BT and VISTA Expertise Network takes first place with comprehensive system that advances scheduling capacities for all involved in veterans’ care Read More »
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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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HIMSS14: HL7 International and AEGIS.net, Inc. Partner to Launch HL7 Conformance Testing Program
Health Level Seven® (HL7®) International and AEGIS.net (AEGIS) today announced the launch of a new Conformance Testing Program for HL7 standards. The HL7 Conformance Testing Program provides a platform for ongoing, iterative testing that helps healthcare IT developers get highly interoperable products to market quickly and cost-effectively. The testing program will make interoperability more cost-effective for vendors as well as implementers by reducing interface development time and costs.
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Medsphere Systems Marks 10 Years of Better Patient Care Through Affordable Healthcare Technology
A decade after the founding of Medsphere, interest in the company's OpenVista EHR remains strong. Their open source solution rapidly delivers federal Meaningful Use funds to its constantly expanding customer base
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My Plan To Blow Up Meaningful Use And Make It Useful
...The government gave $36 billion of "shovel ready" (Sorry, I just love the irony of the shovel ready stimulus being only half spent 5 years later) stimulus money for Electronic Health Records (EHR) and wanted to make sure that doctors would actually be "meaningful users" of the EHR software. Where this falls apart is that much of meaningful or that many of the meaning has already been achieved...
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Nurses' Union Knocks EHRs Hard
An image on the National Nurses United website highlights the campaign slogan. Launches national campaign to call attention to risks of healthcare IT Read More »
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Understand The Three Levels Of Interoperability
Healthcare may have been among the last industries to automate, but the sector has made up for lost time...
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