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CHIME Launches $1M Initiative To Solve Patient Mismatching

by HITC Staff 01/19/2016 Leave a Comment

CHIME National Patient ID Challenge

  The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) today launched the CHIME National Patient ID Challenge, a $1 million crowdsourcing competition aimed at incentivizing new, early-stage, and experienced innovators to accelerate the creation and adoption of a solution for ensuring 100 percent accuracy in identifying patients in the U.S. For the challenge, CHIME has teamed with HeroX, co-founded in 2013 by XPRIZE CEO Peter Diamandis, to run the year-long
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Vindell Washington Appointed ONC’s Principal Deputy National Coordinator

by Jasmine Pennic 01/19/2016 Leave a Comment

Vindell Washington Appointed ONC's Principal Deputy National Coordinator

Today, ONC National Coordinator Karen DeSalvo announced that Vindell Washington, MD, has been appointed the new Principal Deputy National Coordinator, effective January 25. In his new role, Washington will be responsible for driving executive leadership of all ONC programs, operations and policies. His responsibilities also includes advancing  key administration initiatives such as delivery system reform, the Precision Medicine Initiative and implementation of the Interoperability
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Interoperability: The Key to Uniting Healthcare’s Walled Gardens

by Our Thought Leaders 01/19/2016 Leave a Comment

EHR Inteoperability

Editor's Note:  Aashima Gupta is the VP of  Healthcare Digital Transformation at Apigee leading provider of API technology and services for enterprises and developers. In her current role she is driving strategy and execution for the healthcare vertical at a API and analytics startup. I still struggle to get simple, ubiquitous access to my health records. Trying to get my health history every time I see a specialist, giving my doctor to access my lab records, and even the extraordinarily
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TigerText Wants to Eliminate the Ancient Pager & Fax in Healthcare

by Jasmine Pennic 01/15/2016 Leave a Comment

TigerText Wants to Eliminate the Ancient Pager & Fax in Healthcare

Secure messaging provider TigerText is on a mission to eradicate the outdated technology of pagers and fax machines in healthcare once and for all. To help bring the pager and fax machine one step closer to its demise, the company announced two new solutions – TigerPage and TigerFax that will allow users to receive and respond instantly to pages and faxes from their smartphone, in a secure, highly efficient, and HIPAA-compliant manner.  TigerPage: Helping Hospitals Turn the Page(r) With
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National ACO Selects drchrono EHR for Practice Management, Medical Billing

by HITC Staff 01/15/2016 Leave a Comment

drchrono

National ACO has selected drchrono as their EHR software vendor of choice for medical records, practice management and medical billing. Accountable Care Organizations known as ACOs are groups of doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers that come together voluntarily to give coordinated high quality care to their Medicare patients. The implementation of drchrono's EHR platform will enable National ACO to standardize software across over 230 physicians with over 14,000 attributed
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HIMSS Analytics Unveils On-Demand Health IT Market Intelligence Tool

by Jasmine Pennic 01/14/2016 Leave a Comment

himss analytics

HIMSS Analytics® has launched a new market intelligence tool, Logic for healthcare providers, healthcare IT companies, governmental and education organizations and investors. Collaboratively built with hospitals and health systems, Logic will provide insight into predictive modeling, benchmarks and value optimization of health IT, including ranking and adoption of the HIMSS Analytics Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAMSM). Logic Market Intelligence Tool Overview  Logic builds off
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Meaningful Use Is Dead, Long Live Something Better!

by Margalit Gur-Arie 01/14/2016 4 Comments

Meaningful Use Is Dead, Long Live Something Better!

At the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco, Mr. Andrew Slavitt, acting administrator at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS),announced on January 11th that “The meaningful use program as it has existed will now effectively be over, and replaced with something better”, and later clarified on Twitter that:  https://twitter.com/ASlavitt/status/686718314517663744 Meaningful Use is dead. Just like that. No apologies. No nothing. As someone who’s been lamenting
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CHIME Responds to CMS Chief Remarks on Future of Meaningful Use

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CHIME Responds to CMS Chief Remarks on Future of Meaningful Use

This week at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco, Andy Slavitt, Acting Administrator of CMS publicly put the meaningful use program on its death bed.  "The Meaningful Use program as it has existed, will now be effectively over and replaced with something better.""As any physician will tell you, physician burden and frustration levels are real. Programs designed to improve often distract. Done poorly, measures are divorced from how physicians practice and add to the cynicism
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Devin Jopp Steps Down As President & CEO of WEDI

by HITC Staff 01/13/2016 Leave a Comment

Devin Jopp Steps Down As President & CEO of WEDI

Devin Jopp, Ed.D, President and CEO of Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) is stepping down from the post after four years at the Reston, VA-based not for profit organization. The WEDI Board of Directors has formed a search committee to help identify a replacement for Dr. Jopp. During his four-year tenture, Dr. Jopp coordinated the development of the 2013 WEDI Report, which serves as an industry consensus roadmap for the next generation of healthcare data exchange. Additionally,
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ApolloMed Acquires Healarium’s Population Health Management Platform

by Fred Pennic 01/13/2016 Leave a Comment

ApolloMed Acquires Healarium's Population Health Management Platform

Apollo Care Connect, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Glendale, Calif.-based ApolloMed has acquired has acquired the population health management technology and operating platform of Healarium, Inc. The acquisition will help expand the company's medical management and care coordination capabilities to meet the new challenges in the evolving world of value-based reimbursements. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.  Founded in 2009 by Amnon Keynan, Healarium's cloud and
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