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ONC Issues Federal Health IT Strategic Plan 2015-2020

by Fred Pennic 12/08/2014 Leave a Comment

Federal Health IT Strategic Plan 2015-2020

Today the ONC has issued the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan 2015-2020, a coordinated and focused effort to appropriately collect, share, and use interoperable health information to improve health care, individual, community and public health, and advance research across the federal government and in collaboration with private industry. The Strategic Plan, which is open for 60 day comment period serves as the broad federal strategy setting the context and framing the Nationwide
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ONC Report: 26 Trends Driving Physician EHR Adoption

by Jasmine Pennic 12/05/2014 1 Comment

ONC Physician EHR Adoption Graph 1

The need to share patient information with other providers and the use of financial incentives are key drivers in why many providers adopt and use health information technology tools like EHRs, according a data brief released today from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC). ONC Report Overview The new data brief details why physicians decided to adopt – or not adopt –EHRs, and it helps to explain how financial incentives drive physician EHR adoption. Additionally, data
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Coalition for ICD-10 Responds to AMA President Dr. Robert Wah

by Our Thought Leaders 12/05/2014 11 Comments

Coalition for ICD-10 Responds to AMA President Dr. Robert Wah

  The Coalition for ICD-10 has published the following response to recent remarks made by AMA president Dr. Robert Wah, in which he compared the AMA's opposition to ICD-10 to the movie Star Wars.  In his recent speech to the AMA House of Delegates, AMA president Dr. Robert Wah characterized the planned implementation of ICD-10 as analogous to the dark forces controlling the galaxy in the movie Star Wars: “If it was a droid, ICD-10 would serve Darth Vader… For more than a
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Fremont Family Care Selected as 2014 HIMSS Ambulatory Davies Award Recipient

by HITC Staff 12/04/2014 Leave a Comment

HIMSS Enterprise Davies Award Recipient

Fremont Family Care (FFC) of Fremont, Neb., has been named a 2014 HIMSS Ambulatory Davies Award recipient. Since 1994, the HIMSS Nicholas E. Davies Award of Excellence has recognized outstanding achievement of organizations that have used health information technology to substantially improve patient outcomes while achieving return on investment. The Davies Awards program promotes electronic health record-enabled improvement in patient outcomes through sharing of case studies and lessons learned
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PwC: Top 10 Healthcare Industry Issues to Watch in 2015

by HITC Staff 12/04/2014 1 Comment

PwC: Top 10 Healthcare Industry Issues to Watch in 2015

PwC's Health Research Institute releases the top 10 healthcare industry issues to watch in 2015.  In its annual Top health industry issues of 2015 report, PwC’s Health Research Institute (HRI) anticipates that the $2.8 trillion U.S. healthcare sector will start feeling like a true market. HRI’s report explores the top 10 trends that are expected to shape the sector in 2015, including the expansion of do-it-yourself healthcare, how industry will adapt to the newly insured, and consumers’
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JASON Releases Data for Individual Health Report

by Jasmine Pennic 12/03/2014 Leave a Comment

Report Top 20 EHR Vendors by Market Share

In a blog post yesterday, the ONC National Coordinator Karen DeSalvo, MD references a new JASON report titled Data for Individual Health that focuses on "how to create a health information system that focuses on the health of individuals, not just the care they receive." JASON is an independent group of scientists and academics that has been advising the Federal government on matters of science and technology for over 50 years. The report commissioned by the HHS was done in partnership with the
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EHR Provider CureMD Selects DrFirst for Electronic Prescribing of Controlled Substances

by HITC Staff 12/03/2014 Leave a Comment

DrFirst EPCS

CureMD, a cloud based EHR provider for physician practices has selected DrFirst to provide controlled substance e-prescribing (EPCS) capability to users of CureMD EHR system.  Partnership Details CureMD is adding DrFirst’s EPCS GoldSM 2.0 controlled substance e-prescribing functionality to help providers nationwide prevent the epidemic of prescription drug abuse in the U.S. Additionally, CureMD EHR is used by a significant number of providers in the state of New York and its EPCS
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Phillips Launches IntelliSpace Portal 7.0 at RSNA 2014

by HITC Staff 12/02/2014 Leave a Comment

Phillips Launches IntelliSpace Portal 7.0 at RNSA

During 100th annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), Royal Philips has announced the launch of IntelliSpace Portal 7.0 to strengthened its leadership position in health care informatics. The Philips IntelliSpace Portal will offer radiologists a more integrated view of each patient moving along the health continuum providing the ability to create faster pathways to definitive diagnosis for referring physicians.  "Diagnosing a patient can often take multiple scans –
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American College of Radiology and Mass General to Use Nuance PowerShare Network

by HITC Staff 12/01/2014 Leave a Comment

Nuance Powershare Network

Nuance today announced that the American College of Radiology (ACR) and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) will leverage the Nuance PowerShare Network, the industry’s largest cloud-based medical imaging exchange, to bring clinical guidelines to the radiologist’s workflow and automate the process of collecting and reporting quality measures to meet industry regulations and guidelines. These organizations are among the first to join Nuance’s new PowerShare Innovation Program, which opens up the
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EHRs Should Automate the Business of Medicine

by Margalit Gur-Arie 12/01/2014 Leave a Comment

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

  EHRs should automate the business of medicine and eventually the science of medicine, while protecting the art of medicine. Margalit Gur-Arie shares her insights.  By the time the next decade rolls in there will be no paper charts. There will probably still be paper floating around in various capacities, but there will be no one charting on paper. The term “charting” itself may become obsolete, like yonder or popinjay. The term EHR, which is what replaces the paper chart, won’t
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