After facing severe criticism from members of Congress, professional medical organizations and providers pushing to delay the final rules for Meaningful Use Stage 3. On Tuesday, The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released the final rule for the Meaningful Use program with hopes to simplify requirements and add new flexibilities for providers.
CMS reviewed and considered more than 2,500 comments
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Mercy Health Unveils $54M Virtual Care Center
St. Louis, Mo.-based Mercy Health today officially open its Virtual Care Center, a first of its kind $54 million 125,000-square-foot building that will serve as the center of its existing telemedicine programs. Mercy’s Virtual Care Center houses 330 specialized medical professionals and is designed to be a workspace for innovations in patient care and product testing. The building space is designed to invite collaboration and new ideas for getting care to patients when and where they need it,
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Orion Health Awarded Subcontract for $4.3B DoD EHR Modernization Project
Orion Health, a company that develops modern and creative solutions for healthcare has announced that the company was a part of the Leidos Partnership for Defense Health team awarded a contract by the Department of Defense (DoD) to provide an electronic health record (EHR) for the U.S. Military. The team solution will include an off-the-shelf EHR with the associated services needed to deploy the EHR across the Military Health System.
DHMSM Contract Details
As part of the
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Why Did We Get Into the Health IT Industry? 5 CEOs Share Their Reasons
In celebration of the 10th anniversary of National Health IT Week, a collaborative forum and virtual awareness week that assembles key healthcare constituents dedicated to working together to elevate the necessity of advancing health through the best use of information technology. We’ve compiled five quotes from healthcare CEOs about why they got into the health IT industry.
Jeff Margolis, chairman and CEO Welltok:
“As a kid in Boulder, CO I had aspirations to start or lead a business,
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MU Health Care Receives HIMSS Davies Award for Health IT Excellence
University of Missouri Health Care has received the global HIMSS Enterprise Nicholas E. Davies Award of Excellence for health care technology innovations that are improving patient outcomes. Since 1994, the HIMSS Nicholas E. Davies Award of Excellence has recognized outstanding achievement of organizations that have utilized health information technology to substantially improve patient outcomes while achieving return on investment.
“At MU Health Care, we know that better health is a
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Philips Appoints Jan Kimpen as Chief Medical Officer to Support Strategic Focus on Health IT
Philips Healthcare today announced the appointment of Jan Kimpen as the company’s Chief Medical Officer, effective January 1, 2016. This function will play an increasingly important role in supporting the company’s strategic focus on the health IT market and Dr. Kimpen will add a wealth of related experience to Philips’ senior management team. Dr. Kimpen, MD, PhD, professor, joins Philips from the University Medical Center Utrecht (UMC Utrecht) in the Netherlands, where he was Chairman of the
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5 Things Hospitals Can Learn About Patient Engagement From Netflix
Since its inception in 1997, the video streaming and DVD distribution company Netflix has grown into an internationally recognized giant in the entertainment world. In July of this year, the business reported that its subscriber base had grown to 65.55 million, according to Business Insider. There's no denying that the company has captured the attention of its target audience.
Netflix understands what drives the modern consumer and has carefully tuned and shaped its offerings and service
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WEDI Extends Searchable ICD-10 Issue Reporting Database Post 10/1
The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI), a nonprofit authority on the use of health IT to create efficiencies in healthcare information exchange, in partnership with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and other industry associations and partners, announced its searchable ICD-10 Issue Reporting Database– originally launched in early 2014 as part of its ICD-10 Implementation Success Initiative – will continue operation after the transition to ICD-10. Through this
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4 Challenges of Establishing EHR Interoperability
By the year 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services wants interoperability between disparate electronic health records systems (EHRs) to be a common capability. This would allow patient data to be shared among authorized practitioners more seamlessly. But how do patients feel about this?
According to a recent survey conducted by Software Advice, 46 percent of patients want their doctors to directly exchange the health records, and fewer (21 percent) favor in-person delivery.
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Is Meaningful Use a Roadblock to Achieving Interoperability?
This week, a study published by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), known as the “Congressional Watchdog,” revealed the Meaningful Use program is a roadblock to achieving EHR interoperability. Conducted at the request of congressional leaders, the GAO interviewed 18 groups outside of the federal government that specialize in EHRs and are working to achieve EHR interoperability.
GAO asked the representatives of these groups to share their perspectives of the meaningful use” program.
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