No one can deny that healthcare is at a crossroads. Current thought leaders like Atul Gawande and Richard Baron have proposed that history will label our current time period as the “healthcare revolution”. The introduction and adoption of electronic medical records will have an impact no less powerful than the cotton gin had during the industrial revolution.
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Partners Healthcare Considers Epic Systems for Integrated Statewide System
Partners Healthcare, the state's largest healthcare provider in Massachusetts is currently in negotiations with Epic Systems to replace it's existing number of various electronic health record systems that was built in-house with a single EHR solution. The transition is expected to cost over $600 million over 10 years will move Partners in the right direction towards a more integrated, statewide system for sharing medical records. Epic Systems will allow each patient a single up to date record
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What is Data Governance? And Why Does it Matter?
Written by Rita Bowen MA, RHIA, CHPS, SSGB, Sr Vice President of HIM and Privacy Officer of HealthPort
The What
If you look up governance in the dictionary, it states that governance is the act of governing. Not very revealing, is it?
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Survey: Resistance to Workflow as Leading Obstacle to CPOE Adoption
Imprivata announces the results of its 5th annual survey examining IT trends in healthcare reporting resistance to workflow changes as the leading obstacle to CPOE adoption
Imprivata, the leader in secure access and collaboration for healthcare, announced this week the results of its fifth annual survey examining IT trends in healthcare. According to this year’s findings:
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Allscripts Swallows Poison Pill to Avoid Hostile Takeover
Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc. announced on Monday adopted a shareholder rights plan, also commonly called a "poison pill" to protect itself from any potential hostile takeover
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Philosophy of EHR: Form and Function
Written by Ahmed Mori, Content Writer at CareCloud discussing the philosophy of EHR
According to philosopher Monroe Beardsley, aesthetic soundness depends on function within a particular context. This entails a marriage of form and function that spills over into anything from interior design to documentary filmmaking.
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Health Systems Spending Billions to Prepare for the “Last Battle”
Written by Dave Chase, CEO of Avado and was also published in Forbes.
Matthew Herper‘s May 7th cover story reports on the billionaires at Cerner and Epic created by the HITECH Act. This was the $19 billion portion of the stimulus bill that is providing billions of subsidies for the adoption of electronic health records.
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The HIMSS12 Infographic
HIMSS12 infographic highlighting some of the key metrics associated with this year's HIMSS12 in Las Vegas
Yesterday HIMSS released their very first infographic highlighting some of the key metrics associated with this year's event. HIMSS is claiming this year's HIMSS12 broke the world record for tweet volume at a healthcare conference. Some of the highlights of the following infographic include:
HIMSS12 averaged 167 tweets per hour
Biz Stone’s keynote alone generated 7,595 tweets – with
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5 Stages of Collaboration in EHRs
Written by Irene Froehlich from DrFirst on 5 Stages of Collaboration in EHRs
Shahid Shah says, “It’s time for electronic health records (EHRs) to grow up.”
“It’s not just about creating electronic health records and sharing them between doctors,” said Shah, software IT analyst and author of the blog The Healthcare IT Guy.
“Care coordination and collaboration aren’t just about adding patient messaging and simple health records sharing— in fact, care coordination and collaboration must
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Disconnected Healthcare: HIT Vendors Miss Big Picture
Written by Madelyn Young from CareCloud on how HIT vendors miss the big picture
“Software vendors are just not playing well in the sandbox together.”
That point was recently posited by SearchHealthIT writer Don Fluckinger in a post that asked a very timely question on the state of the healthcare information technology industry: “Are HIT Vendors Selfish?”
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