The Social Security Administration and Veteran Affairs has teamed up with The eHealth Exchange, an initiative of The Sequoia Project on a new Health IT initiative that enables all Social Security disability case processing sites to receive medical records electronically from all VA facilities. As part of the new health IT initiative, Veterans will receive a faster decision on their Social Security disability claim, speeding them and their dependents through this new process. Both agencies will
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Mercy Earns Epic’s Accreditation & Elite EHR User Status
Mercy, the nation’s fifth largest Catholic health system has been recognized at one of the highest possible levels by Epic – the Wisconsin-based EHR provider – as part of its Gold Stars program. The recognition comes on the heels of Mercy earning, for a second year, Epic’s accreditation to extend EHR services to other hospitals and clinics. Mercy is Epic’s only client to achieve both accreditation and this exceptional Gold Stars level. The distinction was measured by Mercy’s adoption of nearly
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2 Adventist Health System Hospitals Earns EMRAM Stage 7 Award
Florida Hospital Waterman has earned an initial Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) Stage 7 validation, and Florida Hospital Carrollwood has received an EMRAM Stage 7 revalidation. Since implementation at Florida Hospital Waterman in 2006, electronic medical records (EMRs) have improved the quality and safety of patient care.“Achievement of HIMSS Analytics® EMRAM Stage 7 further demonstrates Florida Hospital Waterman’s commitment to integrate technology and teamwork to improve the
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What Clinical Nurse Leaders Do
In the health care community, much lip service has been paid to growing and attracting clinical leaders. After all, hospitals and other facilities with recognized clinical leaders seem to function better and provide better medical care than those that lack such high-powered medical professionals. Yet, a problem has arisen: Who are clinical leaders, and what do they do?A handful of peer-reviewed articles have argued that any professional within the medical field has the potential to claim
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PEPID Partners With AAEM to Allow Physicians to Earn CME Credits
PEPID, a provider of in point-of-care technologies for the healthcare industry, has partnered with The American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM) to release PEPID CME, a new tool will allow physicians the ability to earn Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit while actually treating patients.This partnership provides clinicians with an alternative to the more expensive and time-consuming options currently available. PEPID CME capitalizes on PEPID’s vast clinical and drug information
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Black Book Names Nuance #1 End-to-End Coding, CDI, Transcription & Speech Recognition Vendor
Nuance Communications has been named the leading vendor for End-to-End Healthcare Coding, Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI), Transcription and Speech Recognition Technology vendor, according to a recent Black Book survey from 313 hospital and 2,005 physician practices. Conducted between April and October 2016, 3,107 revenue cycle and coding management professionals submitted user satisfaction responses. The findings reveal that seventy-nine percent of hospitals surveyed and 94% of
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Is EHR Data Blocking Blocking Finally on Its Last Leg?
Editor’s Note: D’Arcy Guerin Gue is a co-founder of Phoenix, with over 25 years of experience in executive leadership, strategic planning, IT services, knowledge leadership, and industry relations — with a special focus on patient engagement and federal compliance issues. She currently serves as the Director of Industry Relations at Phoenix Health Systems, a division of Medsphere SystemsHealthcare industry market analysts, technology gurus and IT reporters sometimes like to envision a
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Time For a Mobile Security Assessment – A Comprehensive Mobile Security Checklist
Editor’s Note: This post is sponsored by Samsung. Unbeknownst to all, the healthcare industry is in possession of vast amounts of valuable data, while also being the most at-risk and easy to breach. Using outdated, interconnected electronic systems without a strong security plan contributes to this problem. According to Symantec’s 2016 Internet Security Threat Report, healthcare was the most targeted sector in 2015. To help ease the pain of this huge wound, Samsung and Booz Allen Hamilton
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The Reality of Ransomware Attacks: Are Healthcare Providers Truly Prepared?
HIMSS’ Director of Privacy and Security Lee Kim, explains why now is the time for healthcare to get serious on preperation to tackle ransomware attacks. Healthcare data hacked into and virtually held hostage? It may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but it’s a true story told repeatedly and increasingly both in the U.S. and abroad. Today, ransomware and cyber-attacks in healthcare are beyond real, and so are the costly consequences. According to HIMSS’ Lee Kim, now is the time to
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New Zealand Ministry of Health Taps Accenture Consortium for EHR Rollout
The Ministry of Health in New Zealand has selected an Accenture and MartinJenkins consortium as their strategic partner to support the development of a two-stage business case for an EHR rollout, CIO New Zealand first reports. As part of the contract, Accenture will work the Ministry's EHR project team on the business case that will be presented to the Cabinet for approval in early June 2017. Accenture was selected after a competitive request for proposal (RFP) process with 7 other potential
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