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HHS Launches $1M Community Interoperability HIE Program

by HITC Staff 04/14/2015 Leave a Comment

HHS Launches EHR Innovations for Improving Hypertension Challenge_HHS Funded Health Care Innovation Award Projects to Watch

National Coordinator for Health IT Karen B. DeSalvo, M.D., M.P.H., M.Sc., announced today the availability of $1 million in grant funds to support community projects for the Community Interoperability Health Information Exchange (HIE) Program. The funding will help support and enable the flow of health information at the community level, leading to better care and better health. Community Interoperability HIE  Program Overview The Community Interoperability and HIE program will provide funds
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Is Machine Interoperability the Next Unusable Level of Meaningful Use?

by Margalit Gur-Arie 04/14/2015 5 Comments

Only 8 Hospitals Have Attested for Meaningful Use Stage 2

As the HIMSS15 extravaganza is getting under way, and every EHR vendor flush with cash from the Meaningful Use bonanza is preparing to take its unusable product to the next level, machine interoperability is shaping up to be the belle of the ball. Interoperability in health care is all the rage now. After publishing a ten year interoperability plan, which according to the Federal Trade Commission(FTC) is well position to protect us from wanton market competition and heretic innovations, the
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Report: Top 5 Priorities for Health IT Investments in 2015

by HITC Staff 04/14/2015 Leave a Comment

Top 5 Priorities for Health IT Investments in 2015

Driving clinical and operational improvements and enhancing EMRs functionality will be the focus of health IT investments in 2015, according to the results of a new healthcare leadership survey released today by Royal Philips.  These investments are focused on direct patient care and supporting collaboration across the care continuum, resulting in financial improvements – another key initiative behind HIT spend.  As hospitals and IDNs adjust priorities to address the shift from volume to
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Nuance, MEDITECH, IMO Partner to Automate Patient Problem Lists

by Fred Pennic 04/14/2015 Leave a Comment

Nuance Launches Role Based ICD-10 Education for Healthcare Providers

Nuance has announced a collaboration with Intelligent Medical Objects(IMO) and MEDITECH to take rich clinical narratives from physician notes, extract key facts as structured data and automatically populate patient problem lists and allergy lists using physician-friendly terminologies to preserve clinical intent of physician documentation in the EHR. This unique approach enables healthcare providers to translate unstructured narrative text into clinically-accurate, discrete data in the EHR
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Women’s Health Leader Dismayed by Proposed Changes to Meaningful Use Criteria

by Our Thought Leaders 04/14/2015 2 Comments

Debra L. Ness- meaningful use stage 2 delays

Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families issues statement in response to the recently proposed modification to meaningful use for 2015 to 2017, released by CMS on Friday.  “The proposed modification to meaningful use for 2015 to 2017, released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on Friday, is a startling and unwelcome departure from the administration’s commitment to health care transformation that produces higher value, more patient-
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Practice Fusion to Launch EHR-Based Clinical Trial Network

by Fred Pennic 04/14/2015 Leave a Comment

clinical trials

Cloud-based EHR provider, Practice Fusion is partnering with EHR clinical trail provider, ePatientFinder to launch one of the nation’s largest EHR-based clinical trial networks. This partnership will enable physicians using Practice Fusion’s EHR to learn about the newest clinical trials and which of their patients may be eligible to participate. With over 50 million patient encounters a year, Practice Fusion’s partnership with ePatientFinder will help launch one of the nation’s largest
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HIMSS15 Day 2 Summary and Highlights

by HITC Staff 04/14/2015 1 Comment

7 Buzzwords to Watch at HIMSS 2015

  26th Annual HIMSS Leadership Survey Reveals Top Priorities for Healthcare Leaders HIMSS released the results of the 26th Annual HIMSS Leadership Survey. The survey of more than 300 participants, examined key trending issues impacting the business of healthcare including patient considerations, security concerns, insurance models and policy mandates. This survey revealed that 72 percent of respondents report that consumer and patient considerations, such as patient engagement,
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HIMSS Leadership Survey: 11 Key Findings

by Fred Pennic 04/13/2015 Leave a Comment

HIMSS Leadership Survey

Today, at the HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition in Chicago, HIMSS released the results of the 26th Annual HIMSS Leadership Survey. The survey of more than 300 participants conducted between January 9, 2015 and February 24, 2015, examined key trending issues impacting the business of healthcare including patient considerations, security concerns, insurance models and policy mandates. Here are 11 key findings from the survey: 1. 72 percent of respondents report that consumer and
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#HIMSS15: 70% of Physicians Believe Health IT Decreased Patient Engagement

by Jasmine Pennic 04/13/2015 Leave a Comment

#HIMSS15: 70% of Physicians Believe Health IT Decreased Patient Engagement

Despite U.S. doctors’ increased use of technology, more than two-thirds (70 percent) of them believe that health IT has decreased the amount of time they spend with patients, according to a new survey by Accenture. The findings revealed during HIMSS15 is part of a six-country survey of more than 2,600 physicians, including roughly 600 in the United States found about three-fourths (76 percent) of those surveyed believe that interoperability of the tools currently available limits their ability
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Apervita Unveils Marketplace for Health Analytics & Data

by HITC Staff 04/13/2015 Leave a Comment

Apervita Unveils Marketplace for Health Analytics & Data

Apervita has unveiled the world’s first community and marketplace for health analytics & data, empowering prominent global health enterprises to publish and commercialize their knowledge, sharing it with health professionals everywhere. This approach uniquely addresses the burgeoning demand for health analytics & data by empowering leading enterprises to capture and share their expertise, making it readily available through a marketplace for all to use. The rapidly growing Apervita
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