According to the new 2016 HIMSS Connected Health Survey, more than 50 percent of hospitals currently use three or more connected health technologies with many organizations planning to implement additional technologies to improve engagement and quality of care with patients. The survey reveals an optimistic outlook on the emerging trend of connectivity within the healthcare ecosystem.
Conducted in partnership with the Personal Connected Health Alliance (PCHA), HIMSS surveyed 227 IT,
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Mayo Clinic to Pay $1B for Epic Implementaiton Over 5 Years
Mayo Clinic is expected to pay about $1 billion over the next five years to implement Epic for a single integrated EHR, replacing Cerner and GE, according to its 2015 annual financial report filed last week. According to the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal, Mayo said the five-year EMR deal will exceed $1 billion and plans invest $1.5 billion in its IT infrastructure. Terms of the contract were not disclosed in the report.
Epic's EHR will serve as the foundation for Mayo Clinic
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Accenture: Only 18% of Doctors Believe Patients Should Have Full EHR Access
Only 18 percent of doctors believe patients should have full access to their EHRs, dropping significantly from 31 percent in 2014, according to the Accenture 2016 Consumer Survey on Patient Engagement. Meanwhile, 92 percent of consumers believe they should should have full access to their records has increased over the past two years. The survey reveal a growing divide between U.S. consumers and doctors who believe that patients should have full access to their own EHRs
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6 Ways Health Informatics Is Transforming Health Care
The fact that technology is rapidly transforming health care should come as no surprise to anyone. From robotic arms that perform surgery to nanorobots that deliver drugs through the bloodstream, the days of being tended to by the human country doctor seem to have fully given way to machines and software more in keeping with the tools of Dr. McCoy from “Star Trek.”
However, technology's evolutionary impact on health care isn't all shooting stars and bells and whistles. Some of health care's
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HIMSS16 Day 2 Summary and Highlights
HIMSS Leadership Survey Underscores Importance of Clinical IT Executives
The 27thAnnual HIMSS Leadership Survey finds 95 percent of IT leaders view health IT as a strategically critical tool to help healthcare organizations be successful especially surrounding their patient care focused efforts. Leaders working for an organization with a clinical IT executive tended to place a substantially higher importance of health IT than their counterparts in a variety of areas, but most
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HIMSS Leadership Survey: 4 Key Findings to Know
Today at the HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition in Las Vegas, HIMSS released the results of the 27thAnnual HIMSS Leadership Survey of 282 IT executives and professionals. The survey covers a variety of topics designed to capture responses to fixed longitudinal challenges facing health IT leaders as well as dynamic time-specific concerns.
Here are 4 key findings from the survey:
1. 95 percent of IT leaders view health IT as a strategically critical tool to help
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Chilmark Research: Provider-Led Care Management Still In its Infancy
Chilmark Research has released its inaugural 2016 Care Management Market Trends Report on the growing market for provider-centric care management solutions. The report is an in-depth review of over 100 solutions currently available in the market, for which a subset of leading vendors have been comprehensively reviewed.
Defining Care Management
At a fundamental level, care management requires medical professionals to practice medicine differently. Care management will have to
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Epic-Focused Consulting Firm Nordic, Qlik Partner to Enhance EHR Insights for Providers
Epic-focused consulting firm Nordic has partnered with visual analytics provider Qlik to help enhance EHR capabilities for healthcare systems – allowing users to query data directly with flexible and interactive visualizations. With Qlik Sense, Nordic combines its healthcare IT expertise in best practices and operational processes with visual analytics software that puts user-friendly data in the hands of the practitioners — right where they want it — within the Epic environment.
By
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Mobile EHR drchrono Adds Electronic Capture of Insurance, Credit Cards Via App
Mobile EHR provider drchrono today has released a new version of the its platform that now allows for electronic photo capture and storage of patient insurance cards and credit cards right through the app to help process more claims accurately. The drchrono iPad EHR, drchrono iPad patient check-in app and web portal allow a physician to take a photo of a paper insurance card and move it directly into the drchrono platform.
In addition, a patient can complete the same process right from the
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Provider-Led Groups Collaborate to Improve Data Flow to Clinical Apps
The Healthcare Services Platform Consortium (HSPC) and the Center for Medical Interoperability are teaming up on technical initiatives to enable clinical apps to easily and securely access health information. The two provider-led, nonprofit organizations will leverage complementary strengths to develop compatible architectures and platforms to facilitate the flow of data from the patient to clinical applications and services that can enhance care.
The Center serves as a cooperative R&D
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