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Interoperability Will Define Health IT Vendors In 2016

by Dr Saif Abed 01/05/2016 Leave a Comment

Can EHRs Achieve the Interoperability We Need

For the last five years I have witnessed at length the bold predictions of how many startups and app focused companies will revolutionize healthcare as they did the consumer industry. I was always a skeptic and viewed the 'evangelizing' of healthcare apps as being wishful thinking rather than being based on any evidence. Don't get me wrong, apps are a critical component of clinical IT systems for patients and clinicians but they're just that - one component. A gateway to much more important
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Quality Systems, Inc. Completes $165M HealthFusion Acquisition

by HITC Staff 01/04/2016 Leave a Comment

HealthFusion MediTouch

Quality Systems, Inc. announced today completion of its acquisition of San Diego-based HealthFusion, a cloud-based software for physicians, hospitals and medical billing services for $165 million plus potential additional contingent consideration of up to $25 million.  “We are pleased to close the HealthFusion transaction on schedule and consistent with the terms previously mentioned,” said Rusty Frantz, president and chief executive officer at Quality Systems, Inc. in an official statement.
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In Retrospective, Meaningful Use was Meaningless

by Margalit Gur-Arie 01/04/2016 Leave a Comment

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

We don’t win anymore in health care. After repeatedly drilling in our heads that America’s sick care system is a disaster, that those who care for the sick are incompetent and stupid, and that the sick themselves are losers, Meaningful Use was advertised as the means by which technology will make health care great again. The program has been in place for 5 years and the great promise of Meaningful Use is just around the same corner it was back in 2011. The only measurable changes from the
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53% of Consumers Can’t Access Their Electronic Health Data

by Jasmine Pennic 12/23/2015 2 Comments

EHR Inteoperability

74% of consumers say easy electronic access to health data would improve their knowledge of their health and improve communication with their physicians, according to a recent survey. The October/November 2015 HealthMine survey of 502 U.S. consumers reveals 53% of consumers cannot access all of their health data from a computer. With higher deductibles and rising healthcare costs, Americans rolling into their 2016 health plans will assume more responsibility for both the cost and control of
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Mount Sinai to Develop App For Patients With Venous Thromboembolism

by HITC Staff 12/23/2015 Leave a Comment

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

The Department of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has been awarded a $500k grant funded by Pfizer Independent Grants for Learning & Change (IGLC) and Bristol-Myers Squibb Independent Medical Education (IME). The grant focuses on accelerating the development and adoption of evidence-based approaches to improve the safety and effectiveness of patients with the diagnosis of venous thromboembolism (VTE) as they move from one care setting to another.  The $500k, 24
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ONC Releases 2016 Interoperability Standards Advisory

by HITC Staff 12/23/2015 Leave a Comment

Interoperability Standards_ONC

On Tuesday, the ONC released the  2016 Interoperability Standards Advisory (ISA)—a catalog of existing and emerging standards and implementation specifications developed and used to meet specific interoperability needs. The overall purpose of the 2016 Interoperability Standards Advisory is: 1) To provide the industry with a single, public list of the standards and implementation specifications that can best be used to fulfill specific clinical health information interoperability needs.
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5 Secure Messaging Trends to Watch for in 2016

by Erica Garvin 12/23/2015 Leave a Comment

Secure Messaging

TelmedIQ’s CEO Ben Moore shares his insights on what’s trending in secure messaging as the data exchange evolution in healthcare continues. The popularity and proliferation of health information technology (HIT) has led to the following quandary: how do we keep all that vital, personal information safe, secure and HIPAA compliant? It’s a question that has stopped some providers in their technical tracks, propelling innovators to come up with viable, secure message solutions— like the kind
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drchrono Launches First Fully Featured iPhone EHR

by Jasmine Pennic 12/17/2015 Leave a Comment

drchrono's PHR Integrates with Apple's HealthKit

drchrono, the mobile EHR on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and web for physicians and their patients, today announced the launch of its fully featured and clinical documentation iPhone EHR.  Before today, drchrono only allowed a physician to take all of their paper medical forms and put them onto iPad and web, to do rounds and document patient information. With full clinical documentation, a physician can now literally see patients with an iPhone and do his/her rounds.  Key features of the
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Sytrue, HighFive Partner to Optimize Medication Reconciliation for Providers

by HITC Staff 12/17/2015 Leave a Comment

SyTrue

SyTrue, Inc., a healthcare data-refinement company, that specializes in natural language processing (NLP) solutions used to translate unstructured medical data into useable clinical information, announced today, a partnership with HighFive, who provides community wide medication management solutions. Partnership Details Leveraging SyTrue’s NLP OS™ and Semantic terminology server, HighFive has normalized medication data from free text as well as disparate systems into usable interoperable data
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TeleHealth Services, UbiCare To Engage Patients Throughout Care Continuum

by HITC Staff 12/17/2015 Leave a Comment

Telehealth Services

TeleHealth Services and UbiCare are teaming up to provide a unique, proven patient education and engagement solution for hospitals, healthcare systems, clinics and ambulatory centers. Through their proprietary technologies, the companies are able to fully engage patients throughout the care continuum with timely, episode-specific messages sent directly to their personal devices. Patients will receive evidence-based reliable health information from their trusted care provider pushed to them no
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