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Former Hospital CFO Ordered to Pay $4.5M for Meaningful Use Fraud

by Jasmine Pennic 04/30/2015 Leave a Comment

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Former Shelby Regional Medical Center CFO, Joe White has been ordered to pay more than $4.5 million in restitution for his role in a meaningful use fraud scheme, KXXV first reports. White pleaded guilty for directed its EHR vendor, eCareSoft and hospital employees to manually enter data from paper records into the EHR system after the patient was discharged to meet the MU thresholds criteria.  Additionally, White also made false statements regarding other hospitals had successfully converting to
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Senate Health Committee Announce EHR Improvement Workgroups

by HITC Staff 04/30/2015 Leave a Comment

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On Wednesday, Senate health committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-Wash.) announced a bipartisan, full committee working group to identify ways to improve electronic health records (EHRs). “After $28 billion in taxpayer dollars spent subsidizing electronic health records, ‎doctors don’t like these electronic medical record systems and say they disrupt workflow, interrupt the doctor-patient relationship and haven’t been worth the effort,” said
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Sen. Alexander Urges HHS Secretary To Fix Problems with EHRs

by HITC Staff 04/27/2015 Leave a Comment

Sen. Alexander: Gov't Should Not Force Meaningful Use Adoption

Last Thursday in a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on the FY2016 budget request from the Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS), Sen. Alexander asked HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell if she would commit to working to fix the problems with the electronic health record (EHR) system: “Doctors don’t like their electronic medical record systems by large,” he said. “They say they disrupt the work flow. They interrupt the doctor-patient relationship. They haven’t been worth the
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Cerner Integrates EHR & Engagement Platform with Healthwise Patient Education Resources

by HITC Staff 04/17/2015 Leave a Comment

Cerner Acquires Siemens Health IT Business for $1.3B

This week, Healthwise and Cerner announce an agreement to integrate Cerner's EHR and online engagement platform HealtheLife(SM) with Healthwise's patient education resources. Together, the integration will gives individuals access to evidence-based health education across the continuum of home, work, or care settings. Individuals can now expect to receive consistent educational content through Cerner's integrated member engagement solutions, including Cerner's online health and wellness
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Epic to Waive Record Sharing Fees

by HITC Staff 04/16/2015 Leave a Comment

Epic Systems

EHR leader Epic announced this week during HIMSS15 that it will no longer charge a fee to exchange patient records between Epic customers and non-Epic customers through a module formerly called Care Elsewhere, Modern Healthcare  first reports. Data sharing services with Non-Epic customers have since been bundled into Epic's other interoperability module, Care Everywhere. “We're not going to charge for Care Everywhere for at least until 2020,”said Epic CEO Judy Faulkner in an interview
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Is Machine Interoperability the Next Unusable Level of Meaningful Use?

by Margalit Gur-Arie 04/14/2015 5 Comments

Only 8 Hospitals Have Attested for Meaningful Use Stage 2

As the HIMSS15 extravaganza is getting under way, and every EHR vendor flush with cash from the Meaningful Use bonanza is preparing to take its unusable product to the next level, machine interoperability is shaping up to be the belle of the ball. Interoperability in health care is all the rage now. After publishing a ten year interoperability plan, which according to the Federal Trade Commission(FTC) is well position to protect us from wanton market competition and heretic innovations, the
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#HIMSS15: 70% of Physicians Believe Health IT Decreased Patient Engagement

by Jasmine Pennic 04/13/2015 Leave a Comment

#HIMSS15: 70% of Physicians Believe Health IT Decreased Patient Engagement

Despite U.S. doctors’ increased use of technology, more than two-thirds (70 percent) of them believe that health IT has decreased the amount of time they spend with patients, according to a new survey by Accenture. The findings revealed during HIMSS15 is part of a six-country survey of more than 2,600 physicians, including roughly 600 in the United States found about three-fourths (76 percent) of those surveyed believe that interoperability of the tools currently available limits their ability
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MU Stage 3 Proposed Rule: 5 Toughest Measures for Physicians

by Jasmine Pennic 04/03/2015 2 Comments

MU Sttage 3 Proposed Rule

  61 percent of physicians feel the federal government has not done a fair job with the MU stage 3 proposed rule, according to a recent survey conducted by QuantiaMD and exclusively designed by Healthcare Informatics editors. For the survey, QuantiaMD, a Waltham, Mass.-based social network for physicians asked physicians in its network about proposed Meaningful Use Stage 3 rules to support the path to nationwide interoperability.  In response to an open answered question on what
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Vocera Expands Clinical Integration with Epic’s EHR System

by HITC Staff 04/02/2015 Leave a Comment

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Vocera Communications, Inc., a provider of intelligent, real-time communication and collaboration solutions for mission-critical mobile environments, announced a two-way clinical integration with Epic’s EHR system, furthering the company’s commitment to connectivity across the continuum of care. The enhanced functionality enables interactive communication between EHR systems and the Vocera Communication System. This will be the first of several two-way clinical integrations with EHRs, and
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e-MDs Acquired by Marlin Equity, Merges with MDeverywhere

by HITC Staff 03/31/2015 Leave a Comment

e-MDs

  e-MDs, a provider of ambulatory electronic medical record (EMR) and practice management (PM) solutions has been acquired by Marlin Equity Partners, a global investment firm with over $3B in capital under management. Following the acquisition, e-MDs has been merged with MDeverywhere, an existing Marlin portfolio company and leading provider of revenue cycle management (RCM) services and credentialing for physicians. The acquisition and merger bring together two ambulatory
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