On Thursday, Senate REBOOT members introduced the EHR Regulatory Relief Act (S. 3173), legislation that would provide regulatory flexibility and hardship relief to providers and hospitals operating under the meaningful use program. EHR Regulatory Relief Act Legislation OverviewRegulatory flexibility is necessary to help hospitals and medical providers focus on transitioning into the new, patient-focused payment policies created by Congress by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of
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MediPortal Joins NATE to Broaden Patient Ownership of Medical Records
MediPortal, a patient centric, untethered PHR exchange system that provides a secure aggregated view of health and fitness data, enabling patients, providers and payors to securely communicate, view and share information that will lead to healthier outcomes has joined the National Association for Trusted Exchange (NATE). The National Association for Trusted Exchange (NATE) is a not-for-profit membership association focused on enabling trusted exchange among organizations and individuals with
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Medsphere Systems and ChartLogic Merge to Create Integrated Health IT Platform
Medsphere Systems Corporation and ChartLogic, Inc., today announced that they have executed a definitive agreement to merge the two companies. Financial details of merger were not disclosed. The merger will help expand Medsphere’s existing enterprise healthcare IT products and services to include ChartLogic’s proven ambulatory EHR, practice management and medical billing solutions. As part of the merger, ChartLogic will retain its name and operate as a division of Medsphere. Founded in 1994,
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Study: EMRs Cited As Top Trigger for Physician Burnout
74% of US primary care physicians (PCPs) and ER doctors do not feel their healthcare facility or practice is taking effective steps to address and prevent physician burnout, according to a new microsurvey by InCrowd, a provider of real-time market intelligence to life sciences and healthcare firms. The data represents a mid-year checkpoint on physician perceptions as Affordable Care Act (ACA) measures change the nature of doctoring, and as at least 30 major teaching hospitals undertake
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Sacred Oak Medical Center To Implement Medsphere’s Open Platform EHR
Sacred Oak Medical Center, a new Houston-based inpatient behavioral health hospital has selected the Medsphere’s OpenVista® EHR system for implementation. The brand new behavioral health hospital will open later this summer with 20 beds and expand over time to an 80-bed capacity.Sacred Oak is managed by RedShift Healthcare Management and Consulting, a Houston firm providing services focused on hospital management, mergers and acquisitions and rural healthcare networks.Medsphere's OpenVista is
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Nuance Unveils Mobile Clinical Documentation App for Physicians
“In 2015, 65% of physicians were using desktops for clinical documentation with speech recognition saving them 2.5 hours of documentation for every hour they dictated. To improve on and allow even more flexibility for physicians, Nuance Communications has unveiled Nuance Velocity, a new mobile clinical documentation solution that allows physicians in ambulatory care settings to choose which type of documentation method they want to use (speech recognition, dictation or templates) and even shift
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ePatientFinder Lands $8.2M for Clinical Trail Exchange Platform
ePatientFinder, an Austin-based digital health startup that uses algorithms to match physicians with potentially life-changing clinical trials for their patients, based on their existing EHR data has raised $8.2 million Series B funding. The latest round led by a technology investor syndicate has increased the company's total funding to $11M. ePatientFinder plans to use the capital from this latest funding round to fuel the growth of its Clinical Trail Exchange and provider referral
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DirectTrust Urges ONC to Expand Interoperability Measures Under MACRA
Calling the measurement of interoperability a difficult area of study, DirectTrust has filed comments applauding the Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology’s (ONC) initiative to develop metrics for electronic health information exchange and interoperability. At the same time, DirectTrust is urging ONC to begin the development of metrics in a “simple” manner, recognizing that further research will be needed as the interoperable exchange of health information among
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Cisco Selects EHR Integration API Redox to Join Entrepreneurs in Residence Program
Redox, a health IT startup founded by former Epic engineers helping developers integrate with EHRs and health systems manage their connections to the cloud has been selected to join the Cisco Entrepreneurs in Residence (Cisco EIR) program in Silicon Valley. The company's mission is to solve the EHR interoperability problem with their RESTful API designed to help apps share data with almost any EHR vendor at any health system.The corporate venturing program allows emerging tech companies to tap
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Report: Specialty-Driven EHRs on the Rise: 8 Trends to Know
8 in 10 independent physician specialty practices have re-affirmed their confidence in specialty-driven EHRs & robust multispecialty EHRs with well-constructed specialty modules, according to a new report from Black Book Market Research. The report surveyed 11,300 specialist surgical and medical practices in Q1/Q2 2016 finds that specialists are increasing replacing their current EHRs with flexible cloud-based & specialty-driven EHRs tailored to improve financial, workflow, clinical
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