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N.Y. Legislature Approves $45M Budget to Support EHR/HIE Adoption

by Fred Pennic 04/02/2015 Leave a Comment

SHIN-NY

This week, the New York State Legislature voted to support New York’s EHR/HIE system – known as the Statewide Health Information Network of New York (the SHIN-NY). The final New York State Fiscal Year 2015-16 Budget includes $45M in State funding for the SHIN-NY and its Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs), which will continue the work to build this public network, allowing healthcare providers and patients to seamlessly access electronic health records throughout the state. To
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CommonWell Health Alliance Membership Tops 70% of Acute EHR Market

by Fred Pennic 04/01/2015 Leave a Comment

CommonWell Health Alliance Expands Interoperability Services with Tenet Health

CommonWell Health Alliance has announced the addition of five new members that enhance the association's nationwide footprint of the EHR marketplace and diversity across the care continuum. MEDITECH, Merge and Kareo join as contributing members while PointClickCare and Surgical Information Systems (SIS) join as general members. The addition of these new members now represents 70% of the acute care EHR market and 20% of the ambulatory care EHR market. CommonWell membership also represents
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Xerox, SyTrue Partner to Transform Clinical Documentation At The Point of Care

by HITC Staff 04/01/2015 Leave a Comment

SyTrue

To meet the growing demand for greater transparency, simplicity, and value, Xerox has chosen SyTrue’s Clinical Natural Language Processing (NLP) and medical terminology platform in the development of Midas+ Advanced Analytics capabilities at Xerox. The combined solution will leverage NLP and interoperability solutions to transform clinical documentation and other types of data in the electronic medical record (EMR) into standard diagnosis and procedure codes in real-time; which may then be used
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Consumer Partnership for eHealth Praises ONC’s Draft Interoperability Roadmap

by HITC Staff 04/01/2015 Leave a Comment

Consumer Partnership for eHealth

In comments filed on Tuesday, the nation’s top consumer advocates praised the Office of the National Coordinator’s (ONC’s) draft Shared Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap for advancing full and equal interoperability, not just among health care providers but also between providers and patients and their family caregivers. The Consumer Partnership for eHealth (CPeH), a group of more than 50 leading consumer, patient and labor organizations, filed the comments in advance of the April 3
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Despite Closed EHR Records, Health IT is Joining the 21st Century

by Edmund Billings MD 04/01/2015 Leave a Comment

Closed EHR Systems_Dr.-Edmund-Billings

What’s the technical solution for the health IT interoperability challenge? Do you know? You probably should. Chances are you interact with it frequently. It’s Amazon, Expedia, Quicken, Concur, etc. Really, it’s just about any Web site that sells something and enables the use of a credit card. Think about it. You order a book and within moments Amazon’s massive database of partners, products and customers assesses stock availability and pricing, and then securely interacts with your
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HHS CTO Bryan Sivak Steps Down

by Jasmine Pennic 04/01/2015 Leave a Comment

HHS CTO Bryan Sivak Steps Down

Bryan Sivak,chief technology officer (CTO) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is stepping down from his post at the end of April. A 2015 Fed 100 honoree, Sivak is notably known for roles in the development of a "Buyer's Club" to share institutional wisdom on procurement, and the ongoing administration of the Entrepreneurs in Residence program, a one-year program where private sector developers work with the HHS on health innovation initiatives. Additionally, Sivak served
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e-MDs Acquired by Marlin Equity, Merges with MDeverywhere

by HITC Staff 03/31/2015 Leave a Comment

e-MDs

  e-MDs, a provider of ambulatory electronic medical record (EMR) and practice management (PM) solutions has been acquired by Marlin Equity Partners, a global investment firm with over $3B in capital under management. Following the acquisition, e-MDs has been merged with MDeverywhere, an existing Marlin portfolio company and leading provider of revenue cycle management (RCM) services and credentialing for physicians. The acquisition and merger bring together two ambulatory
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Why Unstructured Data Holds the Key to Intelligent Healthcare Systems

by SyTrue 03/31/2015 Leave a Comment

Big-Data in-Healthcare

This post is sponsored by SyTrue As the brawn of big data continues to swell, the quandary of actually realizing value from it rises with the tide; part of the problem is that most data remains largely untapped because most data remains largely unstructured. For try as technology vendors might—the subtleties of clinical data are innately complex—and natively human. Cross-industry consensus illustrates that approximately 80 percent of all data remains unstructured. In healthcare,
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New Patient Monitor Automates Patient Data Transfer to EMRs

by Jasmine Pennic 03/31/2015 Leave a Comment

New Patient Monitor Automates Patient Data Transfer to EMRs

Welch Allyn, a provider medical diagnostic device company, announced it has developed a new patient monitor for physician’s offices that fully automates vital signs capture and wireless data transfer to your EMR. The solutions aligns with the population health management objective to keep a patient population as healthy as possible, reducing the need for more expensive tests, procedures and office visits that add additional costs to the system.  In order to do this effectively, data automation
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Survey: 58% of Patients Feel Technology Improves Patient Experience

by Fred Pennic 03/30/2015 Leave a Comment

Nuance Unveils The Industry’s Largest Medical Imaging Network for Image Sharing

More than a third of patients spend less than 10 minutes with their physician during an average visit, according to a 3,000-person survey conducted by Nuance Communications, Inc. across the U.S., UK and Germany. This leaves both patients and physicians tight on time – with 40 percent of patients feeling rushed during appointments. Nuance’s survey, “Healthcare from the Patient Perspective,” revealed the importance of physicians establishing a personal connection with patients through eye contact,
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