Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP), on Wednesday called for a delay until January 1, 2017, of making final rules for Meaningful Use Stage 3. Alexander is urging that MU Stage 3 requirements should then be phased in at a rate that reflects how successfully the program is being implemented. Additionally, the modified rules proposed for MU Stage 2 should be adopted immediately because it will help most doctors and hospitals
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CHIME Appoints 3 New Members to Board of Trustees
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) has announced the election of members Cletis Earle, Theresa Meadows, R.N., CHCIO, and Donna Roach, CHCIO, to its board of trustees.
Earle is the chief information officer at St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital, Newburgh, NY. Since joining CHIME in 2006, he has been active in both regional and national activities. Earle is the co-chair of StateNet in New York. CHIME’s StateNet fosters information sharing and networking
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De-Identification Standards Offer 1 Solution to the High Cost of Healthcare Data Breaches
Editor's Note: Dr. Khaled El Emam is the CEO of Privacy Analytics, a world-renowned expert in statistical de-identification and re-identification risk. He is one of only a handful of known individual experts in North America qualified to certify the anonymization of Protected Health Information under the HIPAA privacy law.
Between October 2009 and August 2015, 1,286 HIPAA-covered entities and business associates have reported data breaches involving more than 500 records, which have
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Huron Consulting Group to Acquire Cloud62 to Enhance Salesforce.com Capabilities
Huron Consulting Group, a provider of business consulting services, today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Cloud62, a high-growth firm specializing in complex Salesforce.com implementations and related cloud-based applications. The addition of Cloud62 will expand Huron’s Salesforce.com offerings to clients across multiple industries, including healthcare, higher education, manufacturing, retail and financial services. Terms of the acquisition, which is expected to close
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Why EHR Data Blocking Is The Enemy of Collaboration
Note: Dr. Mark Crockett is the chief medical officer of Rise Health, a Best Doctors company. The company provides solutions to deliver the right care at the right time to the right patient.
Today’s healthcare headlines state the problem succinctly’: ‘EHR Data Blocking Hobbles HIT’; ‘EHR Data Blocking Still Rampant’ and more. Search ‘EHR data blocking’ on Google and you get 81,000 entries. Data blocking is clearly obstructing progress towards value-based care and is the enemy of
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Partners HealthCare, Health Catalyst Partner to Create Population Health Center of Excellence
Partners HealthCare and Health Catalyst have established a $30 million initiative strategic collaboration aimed at fostering and accelerating the adoption of population health management (PHM) strategies and practices nationally to improve the quality of health care and lowering costs while meeting the needs of patients, providers and payors. The new population health center of excellence is designed to enable the development and testing of innovative PHM strategies at Partners and, in
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3M to Consider Possible Sales Of Its Health IT Business
On Thursday, 3M announced that it is exploring strategic alternatives for its global health IT business. These alternatives, all of which are focused on building upon the business’ strong foundation, could include:
- spinning-off its health IT business
- selling the health IT business entirely
- retaining and further investing in the existing health IT business within 3M.
3M Health Information Systems, a business of 3M Health Care, works with providers, payers, and government
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HIMSS: 3 Health IT Policy Recommendations to Congress
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has released their annual top health IT policy recommendations to Congress. Under the guidance of the Public Policy Committee, HIMSS staff works closely with key congressional decision-makers, committees, and caucuses to advance improvements in the quality, safety and efficiency of healthcare through the use of IT and management systems.
Here are their top three health IT policy recommendations to Congress:
1. Support
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Clinovations GovHealth Awarded Subcontract for $4.3B DoD EHR Modernization Project
Clinovations Government + Health, a provider of technology services that span public sector and provider health domains, today announced that the company was a part of the Leidos Partnership for Defense Health team awarded a contract by the Department of Defense (DoD) to provide an electronic health record (EHR) for the U.S. Military. The team solution will include an off-the-shelf EHR with the associated services needed to deploy the EHR across the Military Health System.
DHMSM Contract
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New Health Care Supply Chain Innovation Center Employs Internet of Things Approach
In an Internet of Things (IoT) approach to health care - where connectivity creates opportunities for improved economic benefit − Cardinal Health announced the opening of its Healthcare Supply Chain Innovation Lab, a research and development facility dedicated to reducing the $5 billion in waste in the health care supply chain for devices and implantables.* The new, 20,000 sq. ft. lab located in Concord, Mass., will serve as a hub for Cardinal Health to explore innovative approaches, such as
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