Today, The Sequoia Project, an independent advocate for nationwide health information exchange, announced that athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, Epic, NextGen Healthcare and Surescripts are the first to adopt enhanced data sharing practices under the new Carequality Interoperability Framework. This big step is in alignment with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s (ONC) Connecting Health and Care for the Nation: A
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Senate Health Committee Release Draft Bill to Improve Health IT for Docs, Patients
To inform the committee’s final legislation, Senate health committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-Wash.) today released for feedback a staff discussion draft of the committee’s bipartisan legislation to improve health IT, including EHRs.
The draft legislation released on Wednesday is the product of a bipartisan, full committee health information technology working group by Alexander and Murray in April—as well as a series of bipartisan hearings in the
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BlackBerry Lands $20M VA Contract for Secure Enterprise Crisis Communication Network
BlackBerry has been awarded a $20 million multi-year contract to support the VA's Notification System (VANS) and VA Personnel Accountability System (VA-PAS), courtesy of its subsidiary AtHoc. The recently acquired AtHoc networked crisis communication system will support 600,000 VA personnel as well as expanding scope and functionality of the system.
VA's Notification System (VANS) Overview
The VANS system enables alerting across telephones, text, pagers, fax, desktops, smartphones, as
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CHIME Launches $1M Initiative To Solve Patient Mismatching
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
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
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
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
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
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!
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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