Anesthesia information management system (AIMS) provider, Shareable Ink, today announced a preferred partnership agreement with Allscripts, for its Allscripts Sunrise business unit. Shareable Ink provides a full AIMS documentation solution supporting pre-op, intra-op, and post-op, and capturing key quality measures that are critical to outcomes reporting. Shareable Ink will also extend the Allscripts Sunrise platform with additional point-of-care clinical documentation solutions using Allscripts
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Accenture, Salesforce Rolls Out Connected Physician Solution
During Dreamforce 14, Accenture and Salesforce announced the launch of the Accenture Connected Physician Solution to help life sciences companies improve customer and patient engagement leveraging cloud, social and mobile technologies. The solution offers physicians an efficient way to access disease, treatment and product information. It provides doctors with training and gives them the opportunity to collaborate in real time with fellow doctors and medically trained pharmaceutical experts.
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mHealth: The Most Underutilized Force in Patient Engagement?
When was the last time you touched your cell phone? Did you just look at it sitting next to you or feel for it in your pocket? Maybe you're already reading this article right now on your phone.
The latest craze over the release of the iPhone 6 has just proven again how much people love their phones. Hundreds of people waited in lines for hours or even slept overnight trying to be one of the first to get their hands on Apple's latest design. More than 10 million phones were sold over the debut
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Report: 3 Key Barriers to Interoperability
Cost and technical challenges are key barriers to interoperability for healthcare organizations, according to the latest 2014 eHealth Initiative poll results on health data exchange. In its 11th annual survey 135 organizations including 74 community-based HIOs, 25 statewide efforts, 26 healthcare delivery organizations were polled on:
- Interoperability
- Data Use and Access
- Clinical and business motivators
Respondents identified the following top three challenges/barriers to
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Box Acquires MedXT To Address Healthcare Interoperability
Cloud storage platform Box announced it is acquiring MedXT, a cloud-based medical imaging, sharing and collaboration software company. Founders Reshma Khilnani and Cody Ebberson will both join Box in their engineering organization to focus on integrating their technology with the Box platform. According to Box CEO Aaron Levie, the acquisition of MedXT’s technology addresses a "key hurdle to interoperability" between systems impacting the delivery of quality healthcare.
"Medical images have
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Practice Fusion Expands Cloud EHR Platform to Puerto Rico With 3 New Partners
Practice Fusion, the nation’s largest cloud-based electronic health records (EHR) platform, today announced strategic partnerships with three of Puerto Rico’s premier health service companies, ASSERTUS Inc., Atlantic Pathology and HRP Labs. The partnerships are part of Practice Fusion’s effort to support the region’s doctors and their ability to participate in the healthcare ecosystem.
ASSERTUS Clearinghouse’s medical billing software ProClaim® is one of Puerto Rico’s largest medical billing
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Study: Physicians Are Capturing More Structured EHR Data than MU Requires
Only 7 percent of structured EHR data in a typical patient note is required in order to meet Meaningful Use, according to a new study by clinical documentation vendor WebChartMD. The percentage only slightly rose to 9% when lab data was present. The study analyzed one hundred de-identified orthopedic and cardiovascular patient notes obtained from MTSamples.com revealing how EHRs can place excessive data entry burden on physicians.
The report found as much as 91 to 93 percent of data
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The Average Health IT Salary is $89,879 in 2014
The average health IT salary is $89,879.43 with 30 percent also receiving an average bonus of $31,100.52, according to the new 2014 Health IT Salary report conducted by HeathITJobs.com. Project managers pulled in the highest salaries with an average of $111,648.73 last year.
The survey was sent out to over 8,000 health IT professionals and collected 697 responses during July and August of 2014. The infographic shown below illustrates the entire survey findings:
HealthITJobs.com is an
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HIMSS and AVIA Launch HX360 to Reinvent Care Delivery
Today, HIMSS and AVIA announced HX360™, a new co-developed initiative. HX360 was created to improve the way that health care is delivered by both inspiring and facilitating the adoption and use of next generation (non-EHR Platform) technologies by provider organizations, in areas where health system executives are passionate to combine the right mix of resources, processes and technologies.
“Globally, health system leaders are looking to reinvent care delivery to not just treat
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Government: Is It The Best Venue for Reaching HIT Interoperability?
91% of providers said that interoperability was a primary driver for clinical outcomes, while 89% said the same about fiscal outcomes, according to a recent study by Smart Data pioneer peer60. The data gathered from VP’s of Quality, CNOs, CIO, and other key hospital leaders revealed more than 90 percent of healthcare leaders felt that interoperability will improve the overall experience of patients and clinicians. Leaders who worked closest to fiscal and clinical outcomes proved to be most
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