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Senate Health Committee Announce EHR Improvement Workgroups

by HITC Staff 04/30/2015 Leave a Comment

EHR Optimization EHRs Meaningful Use Stage 3_Ambulatory EHR_Specialty-Driven EHRs

On Wednesday, Senate health committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-Wash.) announced a bipartisan, full committee working group to identify ways to improve electronic health records (EHRs). “After $28 billion in taxpayer dollars spent subsidizing electronic health records, ‎doctors don’t like these electronic medical record systems and say they disrupt workflow, interrupt the doctor-patient relationship and haven’t been worth the effort,” said
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Addressing the Interoperability Gap in Behavioral Healthcare

by Edmund Billings MD 04/30/2015 Leave a Comment

Closed EHR Systems_Dr.-Edmund-Billings

  What would you call a physician who sewed up a patient’s wound without addressing the depression, bipolar disorder or other behavioral health issue that led to the injury?  We might cynically label the doctor disinterested or inattentive; we might sympathetically call her distracted or overwhelmed. But it might be far more accurate to say the doctor lacks information. With access to the patient’s complete health record when he came into the emergency department (ED), she
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NextGen Launches Data-Driven Population Health Solution

by Jasmine Pennic 04/29/2015 Leave a Comment

NextGen Healthcare and Mirth To Power First Statewide Behavioral HIE

NextGen Healthcare, a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, Inc. and a leading provider of healthcare information systems, services, and connectivity solutions, today has announced the launch of NextGen® Care, a new population health and care management solution designed to streamline the care team’s workflow, more effectively manage patient populations, drive better outcomes and decrease cost of care delivery mandated by evolving value-based payment models. The solution provides risk
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Samsung Eyes Elderly Care Market With Mybitat Partnership

by HITC Staff 04/28/2015 1 Comment

Samsung Eyes Elderly Care Market With Mybitat Partnership

IoT is starting to make real impact on our lives and with 10,000 baby boomers retiring every day in the U.S., one area poised to benefit the most is elder care. Samsung and Mybitat (an AGT company) are now working together on a joint solution with the goal to improve quality of life, allowing the elderly the freedom to securely live at home longer without requiring family assistance.  Using Mybitat data fusion and big data analytics, along with new sensors and IoT Intelligence algorithms
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Mount Sinai Launches System for Seamless Faster Referrals

by HITC Staff 04/28/2015 Leave a Comment

Mount Sinai Health System Launches Telehealth Initiatives_Mount Sinai Launches EHR-Integrated Imaging Research Warehouse

The Mount Sinai Health System and software company par8o are creating a seamless referral process for the Health System’s care providers. Effective referrals matter because patients with chronic heart failure or diabetes, for instance, may have more than one physician caring for them, and most primary physicians coordinate with many other care providers. With medical practices across the Mount Sinai Health System referring hundreds of thousands of patients each year, the need for an intelligent
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Sen. Alexander Urges HHS Secretary To Fix Problems with EHRs

by HITC Staff 04/27/2015 Leave a Comment

Sen. Alexander: Gov't Should Not Force Meaningful Use Adoption

Last Thursday in a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on the FY2016 budget request from the Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS), Sen. Alexander asked HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell if she would commit to working to fix the problems with the electronic health record (EHR) system: “Doctors don’t like their electronic medical record systems by large,” he said. “They say they disrupt the work flow. They interrupt the doctor-patient relationship. They haven’t been worth the
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athenahealth, Epic and Medfusion Tops for Driving Patient Portal Adoption

by Jasmine Pennic 04/24/2015 Leave a Comment

KLAS Report Highlights Population Health Management Early Leaders

A recent KLAS report finds vendors athenahealth, Epic and Medfusion are the most effective at helping their customers drive patient portal adoption. The recent KLAS report entitled Patient Portals 2015: Adoption beyond Meaningful Use reveals all three vendors having over half of their customers report that at least 20% of patients have accessed the portal--a number well beyond the meaningful use bar of 5%. For the report, KLAS interviewed 186 healthcare provider organizations to determine
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CareCloud Raises Another $15M, Appoints New CEO

by Fred Pennic 04/23/2015 Leave a Comment

CareCloud Raises Another $15M, Appoints New CEO

  Cloud-based practice management EHR provider CareCloud has raised $15M in additional funding from its investors to help accelerate product innovation and operations. Additionally, the company has appointed Ken Comée, a proven leader of enterprise cloud technology businesses, as its new Chief Executive Officer, replacing Albert Santalo who will remain at CareCloud as Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer. During the past three years, Comée has served as a Board member and
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Meaningful Use Stage 3: 8 Key Questions for Physicians

by Our Thought Leaders 04/22/2015 Leave a Comment

Physician Burnout_10 Mandatory Issues for Physicians to Watch in 2015_Comprehensive Primary Care Plus Model

This post is sponsored by Revenue XL By now, most physicians know about Meaningful Use (MU)—the government program that provides incentive payments to eligible providers that meet specific criteria when implementing certified electronic health records (EHR). Providers currently meet either Stage 1 or Stage 2 criteria, depending on their implementation timeline. However, on March 20, 2015, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a notice of proposed rulemaking for Stage
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Mount Sinai Health Selects InterSystems HealthShare

by HITC Staff 04/22/2015 Leave a Comment

Mount Sinai Health System Launches Telehealth Initiatives_Mount Sinai Launches EHR-Integrated Imaging Research Warehouse

 Mount Sinai Health System, an acclaimed integrated health system, has selected InterSystems HealthShare as its interoperability platform for long-term growth.  The HealthShare platform will also support Mount Sinai’s objectives to participate in government programs and value-based contracts to improve care quality, availability, and efficiency. Mount Sinai Health System is an integrated healthcare system providing exceptional medical care to local and global communities. Encompassing the
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