40% of providers reported their IT budgets are still growing with only 25% of providers with growing budgets attribute the growth to EHRs, according to a new IDC Health Insights report. The new survey specifically examines technology spending and planned technology spending by U.S. acute care hospitals with more than 200 beds.
Key findings indicate that the post-EHR era is upon us as providers turn to optimizing the business for accountable care, adding analytics and care management, and away
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athenahealth Appoints Prakash Khot New Chief Technology Officer
athenahealth, a provider of cloud-based EHR and practice management solutions for medical groups and health systems, today announced the appointment of Prakash Khot as Chief Technology Officer (CTO), effective January 25, 2016. He will report directly to Jonathan Bush, athenahealth’s CEO.
In his new role, Mr. Khot will be responsible for leading all aspects of athenahealth’s technology vision and development. His primary focus will be advancing the overall direction and development of
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Patient-Data Pipeline: The Missing Healthcare IT System Link
Part of today’s complexity in healthcare stems from the way our healthcare IT systems have emerged. There are multiple entry points for patients into the healthcare system, from a relationship with a primary care physician to the sporadic, disconnected and random interaction with emergency departments, urgent care and wellness clinics.
Based on current technology and the overall nature of the beast, it is highly doubtful that a single point of entry into the healthcare delivery system will
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Top 10 Hacking Exposure Areas for Healthcare IT Systems
Meditology Services, a professional services company specializing in IT solutions for healthcare organizations, announced new research based on a two year study from 2013-2015. As a follow up to this research endeavor, Meditology has released a white paper focused on ethical hacking, also known as penetration testing, and why it is a very effective way to test the security of healthcare information systems.
The paper, "Hacking Healthcare: Real-world Healthcare Security Exposures from
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Cambia Shutters Its Mobile Health Payment Startup, Wellero
Cambia Health Solutions has decided to shutter its mobile health payment-focused startup, Wellero just a little more than 2 years after launching in fall 2013. The company offered consumers a mobile app that allows them to pay for their health care services before they leave their provider’s office. Consumers using the app could pay at the time of service based on their health insurance benefits or cash prices for the uninsured.
Jared Ishkanian, Cambia spokesman confirmed Cambia’s decision to
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Epic, Impact Advisors Takes Overall Best in KLAS Awards
The 2015/2016 Best in KLAS report published today named Epic and Impact Advisors as the 'Overall Best in KLAS based on the feedback of their customers. Epic earned the ranking of number one Overall Software Suite for the sixth consecutive year and was also named the top Overall Physician Practice Vendor including receiving an additional seven Best in KLAS awards in seven segments.
Health IT consulting firm Impact Advisors was ranked the number one Overall IT Services Firm for the fourth
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Report: Hackers Caused 98% of Healthcare Data Breaches in 2015
1 in 3 Americans were victims of healthcare data breaches, attributed to a series of large-scale attacks that each affected more than 10 million individuals. These and other statistics are contained in Bitglass’ 2016 Healthcare Breach Report, which the company issued today.
The findings of the Bitglass 2016 Healthcare Breach Report come from analyzing data on the United States Department of Health and Human Services’ “Wall of Shame,” a database of breach disclosures required as part of the
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As Health IT Matures, Security Approaches Must Mature With It
Not that long ago, healthcare worried mostly about the physical loss of personal health information (PHI) by way of a lost thumb drive, a stolen laptop, some misplaced paper files. These were the primary concerns in HIMSS initial security survey, published in 2008. It wasn’t until five years later, in 2013, that the largest healthcare security breaches came from cyberattacks instead of lost or stolen devices.
So, is it encouraging to see how far the rapid pace of change has carried health IT
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Top 5 Health IT Solutions Hospitals Plan to Adopt in 2016
In a newly released report from HIMSS Analytics examines the changes in a hospitals’ buying intent from 2014 through 2015. The report identified the following top 5 technologies hospitals plan to adopt in 2016:
1. CPOE
2. Physician Documentation
3. Nurse Staffing/Scheduling
4. Dictation with Speech Recognition
5. Data Warehousing/Mining – Clinical
Report Background
In early 2015, in a forward-thinking article on Healthcare IT News, HIMSS Analytics identified 18 technologies
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MidMichigan Health Selects Epic for $55M Integrated EHR
Midland, Michigan-based MidMichigan Health announced it has selected Epic as its strategic partner for a single, integrated EHR for all of its hospitals, doctors’ offices and outpatient care facilities. The Epic implementation is expected to cost $55M and the non-profit health system expects to recoup those costs within six years through efficiencies gained by bringing all MidMichigan Health-owned facilities onto the same platform for registration, scheduling and billing.
“Our current state
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