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HIMSS Analytics Honors Cleveland Clinic Health System With Stage 7 Ambulatory Award

by HITC Staff 12/15/2014 Leave a Comment

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HIMSS Analytics recognized the Cleveland Clinic Health System with its Stage 7 Ambulatory Award. The award represents Cleveland Clinic Health Systems’ attainment of the highest level on the Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model™ (EMRAM), which is used to track EMR progress at hospitals and health systems. Developed in 2011, the EMR Ambulatory Adoption Model provides a methodology for evaluating the progress and impact of electronic medical record systems for ambulatory facilities owned by
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JASON Report: The Great American Experiment

by Margalit Gur-Arie 12/15/2014 Leave a Comment

JASON Report

The distinguished JASON group of anonymous scientists and academics that provides consulting services to the U.S. government on matters of defense science and technology, just published a sequel to the 2013 best seller, “A Robust Health Data Infrastructure”. The new report is titled “Data for Individual Health”, and it has two purposes. The first and foremost purpose is to backtrack on the searing criticism leveled at government efforts to promote health information technology, which evoked much
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Can A Virutal Clipboard Automate the Patient Intake Process?

by Jasmine Pennic 12/12/2014 Leave a Comment

Virtual Clipboard Automate Patient Intake Process

On Monday, a group of representatives from the ONC and healthcare industry meet to discuss possibly developing a mobile "virtual clipboard" that will “create an industry blueprint around how to automate the patient intake process"Modern Healthcare first reports.  “The goal is to make the first experience (going) into your GP, specialist or hospital as simple as buying a cup of coffee at Starbucks. We have created four different work groups that will meet between January and February to work out
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KLAS: Phytel Takes Lead in Population Health Vendor Market Race

by Fred Pennic 12/12/2014 Leave a Comment

KLAS: Phytel Takes Lead in Population Health Vendor Market Race

  Population health management is one of the hottest emerging markets in the health IT space and vendors are quickly racing to carve out market share.70% of providers report that they see tangible benefits to patient care when using certain population health vendors, according to KLAS. But with so many PHM vendors and very little data, healthcare providers are having a hard time identifying who is the best vendor to help them maximize the benefits of their population health efforts.  To
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SHIN-NY, Oscar Introduce Healthix’s Patient Alert System

by HITC Staff 12/12/2014 Leave a Comment

SHIN-NY, Oscar Introduce Healthix’s Patient Alert System

The New York State Health Department joined with Healthix, the Brooklyn Health Home and Oscar to provide an update on the development of New York’s new EHR system, the Statewide Health Information Network of New York (SHIN-NY). To demonstrate how the SHIN-NY operates on a regional level, the group highlighted Healthix’s patient alert system, which allows care managers to receive real-time alerts when their patients are admitted to or discharged from a hospital, helping to improve care
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Survey: Patients’ Online Access to EHRs Doubled in 2014

by HITC Staff 12/11/2014 Leave a Comment

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Patients’ online access to EHRs has nearly doubled, surging from 26 percent in 2011 to 50 percent in 2014, according to new study released by the National Partnership for Women & Families. In the last year, more than four in five patients with online access to their health records (86 percent) used their online records at least once – and more than half (55 percent) used them three or more times a year.  Engaging Patients and Families: How Consumers Value and Use Health IT  offers an
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CMS: Meaningful Use Payments Tops $25.7B

by Jasmine Pennic 12/11/2014 Leave a Comment

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As of December 1st, CMS has paid more than $25.7 billion in meaningful use payments to eligible hospitals and professionals, according to the latest CMS data. Elisabeth Myers, head of CMS' Office of eHealth Standards and Services made announcement on Tuesday during a Health IT policy Committee meeting.  MU Registation and Payment Data CMS data reported 505,641 active participants in the meaningful use incentive program through October 2014 broken down by:  October-14 Program To
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Top 5 Concerns for Hospital CFOs in 2015

by Fred Pennic 12/11/2014 Leave a Comment

Hospital CFO_New Financing Program Minimizes Impact of ICD-10 Revenue Delay for Private Practices_revenue cycle management

Continued meaningful use expenses for EHR, HIE, analytics, portals and mobile apps are hitting today's hospitals hard as changes in payment models based on patient compliance, pricing transparency, and population health demand even more capital. For chief financial officiers (CFOs) working at hospitals that are struggling financially, the outlook looks increasingly bleak.  According to a recent Black Book report, 94 percent of hospital CFOs self-identified as “struggling”, reported that delayed
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Can Public APIs Unlock True Health IT Interoperability?

by Edmund Billings MD 12/09/2014 1 Comment

Can Public APIs Unlock True Health IT Interoperability?

 Do we finally have the spark? Interoperability is the current health IT buzzword because it’s the essential ingredient in creating a system that benefits patients, doctors and hospitals. Almost everyone in healthcare is pressing for it and is frustrated, though probably not surprised, that Meaningful Use did not get us there. The ONC says within three years we’ll have a roadmap for providing interoperability “across vendor platforms,” which should probably elicit a collective groan.
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EHR Usability for Ongoing Optimization

by Dr. Stephen Beck 12/08/2014 Leave a Comment

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Dr. Stephen Beck, CMIO at Mercy Health (formerly Catholic Health Partners) discusses how his organization is approaching EHR usability to deliver improvements in efficiency, care quality and provider satisfaction.  Nearly every day I read a new article about physician dissatisfaction with EHRs. There seems to be many reasons for this attitude. Part of it is the need for better data collection tools to ensure ongoing optimization to keep pace with changing regulations. For example, an October
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