HIMSS, IHE USA and the EHR/HIE Interoperability Workgroup announce plan to streamline and strengthen how electronic health records and health information exchanges share patient data.
Health information technology customers expect products to work efficiently and consistently - whether it’s a Wi-Fi connection for a computer or the ability to securely share health data across computer systems, states or regions.
Building on its current effort to connect electronic health records (EHRs)
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Supply Chain: Can It Help Providers Meet Meaningful Use?
Lest we forget, asset productivity is a multi-million dollar blind spot. Cohealo’s Mark Slaughter explains why a quantified supply chain matters when talking about meaningful use.
How will Stage 3 of meaningful use (MU) explicitly improve financial and clinical outcomes? That’s the question stirring the pot in healthcare, along with provider speculation that ONC’s (Office of National Coordinatior’s) well-meaning MU program needs changing (at all stages) to create meaningful impact.
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Is It Time to Replace Your Practice Management System?
Practice Management systems form the backbone of any medical practice, helping physicians and their staff manage appointments, keep track of patients, and perform medical billing. While government incentives have put a spotlight on Electronic Health Records (EHR) in recent years, now is also a critical time for practices to take a close look at their PM systems. Many in use today are outdated, making daily tasks harder than they need to be, slowing staff down, and causing anxiety around industry
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Meaningful Use Audits Could Return $33M in Incentive Payments
Meaningful Use audits could recover $33M in EHR incentives, according to data from the HHS published in a recent Health Security Solutions infographic below. Although the precise reason for failure is not included in the dataset, there is reason to believe from strong anecdotal evidence that failure to conduct an adequate risk analysis is the most common reason entities fail their MU audits.
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AMA Policy Calls for Removal of Meaningful Use Penalties
The American Medical Association (AMA) approved a new policy urging the calling for Meaningful Use penalties to be halted. The AMA has joined other healthcare leaders and policymakers in urging CMS to to add more flexibility to the Meaningful Use program and shorten the reporting period to help physicians avoid penalties. According to new attestation numbers, only 2 percent of physicians have successfully demonstrated MU Stage 2 requirements.
"The AMA has been calling for policymakers to
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Specialty EMR Provider, Modernizing Medicine Raises $15M
Cloud based, specialty-specific EMR provider, Modernizing Medicine has announced that it has closed $15M of an expected $20M in venture capital funding led by Summit Partners and Pentland Group. Many of the company's investors are medical specialists who use EMA bringing its total funding to $44M. The EMR provider currently serving eight different medical specialties, more than 4,000 providers have adopted Modernizing Medicine’s EMA in their practices.
Developed by surgical physicians, EMA
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TigerText Integrates With MobileIron to Enhance Secure Messaging
Secure messaging provider TigerText today announced an integration partnership with mobile device management provider,MobileIron. As part of MobileIron's AppConnect Ecosystem, IT departments can now instantly push the TigerText app to thousands of employees' devices and manage access using MobileIron's console, while end users can start securely texting in just a few easy steps.
With hundreds of health systems using MobileIron to manage their employee's mobile apps and services, this
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Validic’s CTO Talks the Value of Open Data in Healthcare
The future of harnessing inteoperability and open data in healthcare is promising if you’re open to embracing it. Validic's Drew Schiller explains why.
The tsunami that is big data is cresting in healthcare right now. While that wave is on the horizon, healthcare providers are scrambling to figure out how they are going to survive the surge and ride the tide to their benefit. Let’s remove the poetic metaphor for a moment and talk about the reality of what’s needed to achieve that ideal: what
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Health IT in India: Providers Expected to Spend $1.1B in 2014
Healthcare providers are expected to spend $1.1 billion dollars on health IT products and services in India, a five percent increase over 2013, according to Gartner. The report forecast includes health IT products and services spending by healthcare providers (includes hospitals and hospital systems, as well as ambulatory service and physicians' practices) on internal services, software, IT services, data center, devices and telecom services.
Key Findings
- IT Services, which includes
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Report: 61% of Struggling Hospital CFOs Expect to Be Fired by 2016
61 percent of hospital chief financial officers (CFOs) and business managers in "struggling" hospitals expect to be fired by 2016 due to outdated revenue cycle management solutions, according to a recent Black Book report. The report reveals hospital CFOs could potentially lose their jobs because their outdated revenue cycle management software, staff, and solutions were powerlessly stuck in fee for service mode too long. CFOs self identified as "struggling financially" believe they must
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