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The Critical Role of Health IT in the Ebola Outbreak

by Robert Rowley MD 10/16/2014 2 Comments

Ebola EHRs

A recent article by Atul Gawande in The New Yorker describes the level of preparedness at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, as it encountered the first case of Ebola to be diagnosed in the U.S. The emergency department was as prepared as anyplace, and had rehearsed the scenarios, and reviewed the CDC checklist for Ebola preparedness. They had asked about fever in people who had traveled from the region of West Africa beset by Ebola, per the protocol. In fact, the triage nurse in the
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AMA Reveals Blueprint for Future of Meaningful Use Program

by Jasmine Pennic 10/15/2014 Leave a Comment

AMA Reveals Blueprint for Future of Meaningful Use Program

On Tuesday, the American Medical Association (AMA) released a blueprint for the future of the Meaningful Use program, including Stage 3, quality reporting, and EHR vendor certification requirements. In a 30 page letter submitted to the CMS Administrator Marilyn B. Tavenner and ONC National Coordinator Karen B. DeSalvo, MD, MPH,AMA CEO James L. Madara, MD states: "Since the creation of the Electronic Health Record (EHR) Meaningful Use (MU) program in 2009, it is clear that physician use
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Health IT VC Funding Tops $956M in Q3 2014

by HITC Staff 10/15/2014 Leave a Comment

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  Health IT VC funding reached $956 million in 212 deals in Q3 2014,a decline of 46 percent in terms of dollars compared to the massive $1.8 billion in 161 deals raised in Q2 2014, according to a new Mercom Capital Group report. However, Q3 2014 was still the second highest quarter for VC funding since 2010. Total VC funding year-to-date adds up to $3.6 billion. Consumer-focused technologies received 65 percent of all VC investments in the third quarter of 2014, with $623 million
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EMR Optimization: 96% of Healthcare Providers Infrastructure Not Fully Ready

by Jasmine Pennic 10/14/2014 Leave a Comment

EMR Optimization: 96% of Healthcare Providers Infrastructure Not Fully Ready

When it comes to EMR optimization, healthcare providers lack the infrastructure to take advantage of FutureCare-enabling technologies (cloud, Big Data, mobile, and social).  96 percent of healthcare organizations say their infrastructure is not fully prepared for the evolution of their EMR today, according to a new study from EMC and MeriTalk. The report explores how FutureCare-enabling technologies (cloud, Big Data, mobile, and social) are driving profound change and how deployment of these
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Shareable Ink Expands Partnership with Allscripts

by HITC Staff 10/14/2014 Leave a Comment

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

by Fred Pennic 10/14/2014 Leave a Comment

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?

by James Dias 10/13/2014 3 Comments

mHealth_ 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

by Jasmine Pennic 10/10/2014 Leave a Comment

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

by Fred Pennic 10/10/2014 Leave a Comment

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

by Jasmine Pennic 10/09/2014 Leave a Comment

Practice Fusion Launches Free Laptop, Free EHR Program for Doctors

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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