Today the ONC has issued the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan 2015-2020 that lays out the vision, goals, and actions that the federal government intends to apply the effective use of health IT immediately and in the coming years. This outlined plans aims to modernize the nation's health IT infrastructure to enable individuals, their providers, and communities achieve their health and wellness goals. The ONC states that this robust health IT infrastructure should support the dynamic use of
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Modernizing Medicine Raises $38M for Mobile Specialty EMR
Cloud based, specialty-specific EMR provider, Modernizing Medicine announced that it has closed $38 million in Series E funding led by Pentland Group and funds affiliated with Summit Partners and Sands Capital Ventures. Many of the company’s investors are medical specialists who use EMA bringing its total funding to $87M.
The EMR provider currently serving eight different medical specialties, more than 9,000 providers have adopted Modernizing Medicine’s EMA in their practices. Available as
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SyTrue’s CEO Talks How NLP Technology Is Unlocking Data Driven Healthcare
Growing numbers of healthcare executives recognize the broad and critical uses of Natural Language Processing (NLP). To learn more, we sat down with SyTrue Founder and CEO Kyle Silvestro to discuss NLP’s key role in healthcare now, and its future direction.
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Big questions about Natural Language Processing (NLP) are fading away but a few remain. How do you define NLP’s capabilities when someone asks, “What is NLP, exactly?”
NLP allows computers to read, understand and extract in-context
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Patient Record Exchanges Made “Right”: Sharing the Right Data with the Right Provider at the Right Time
At Mercy Health, one of our most important goals is keeping patients safer by allowing critical information to move with them – whether they’re traveling to an institution like the Mayo Clinic for treatment or seeking emergency care while away from home. The importance of exchanging records seamlessly, and the added value of providing better care for patients, cannot be overstated. Indeed, I’m continuously amazed by just how much information exists relative to how providers are exchanging
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AMA, 41 Other Medical Societies Push to Delay Meaningful Use Stage 3
On Thursday, the American Medical Association (AMA) and 41 medical societies have backed Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) in urging the administration to delay Meaningful Use Stage 3 in light of pivotal changes to Medicare. The coalition of physician organizations firmly believes that locking in Stage 3 rules for the Meaningful Use program would be a detrimental step that undermines the implementation of Medicare payment reforms.
In letters delivered to the Secretary of Health and Human
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Kyruus Raises $25M To Redefine How Patients Get Matched to Providers
Kyruus, a SaaS-based referral coordination platform that helps hospitals optimize patient access and referral management, has raised $25 million in funding to accelerate adoption of its ProviderMatch technology. The funding round was led by New Leaf Venture Partners, with participation from Providence Health & Services, Leerink Capital Partners, andMcKesson Ventures. They were also joined by existing investors Venrock, Highland Capital Partners, Lux Capital, and Fidelity
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4 Optimistic Reasons about the Ongoing Transformation of Healthcare
None of us would have the jobs we currently occupy without some ability to focus on details. Running a company, developing IT systems, managing a hospital, seeing patients and evaluating their concerns—all require the ability to dig deep and identify root causes and effective solutions.
But maybe that focus on the trees blinds us to changes in the forest, to use a well-worn aphorism.
With that broader perspective in mind, I’d like to suggest four reasons for optimism as we continue to move
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Senator Calls For Delay in Making Final Rules for MU Stage 3
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP), on Wednesday called for a delay until January 1, 2017, of making final rules for Meaningful Use Stage 3. Alexander is urging that MU Stage 3 requirements should then be phased in at a rate that reflects how successfully the program is being implemented. Additionally, the modified rules proposed for MU Stage 2 should be adopted immediately because it will help most doctors and hospitals
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CHIME Appoints 3 New Members to Board of Trustees
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) has announced the election of members Cletis Earle, Theresa Meadows, R.N., CHCIO, and Donna Roach, CHCIO, to its board of trustees.
Earle is the chief information officer at St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital, Newburgh, NY. Since joining CHIME in 2006, he has been active in both regional and national activities. Earle is the co-chair of StateNet in New York. CHIME’s StateNet fosters information sharing and networking
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De-Identification Standards Offer 1 Solution to the High Cost of Healthcare Data Breaches
Editor's Note: Dr. Khaled El Emam is the CEO of Privacy Analytics, a world-renowned expert in statistical de-identification and re-identification risk. He is one of only a handful of known individual experts in North America qualified to certify the anonymization of Protected Health Information under the HIPAA privacy law.
Between October 2009 and August 2015, 1,286 HIPAA-covered entities and business associates have reported data breaches involving more than 500 records, which have
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