The healthcare industry has traditionally lagged behind other industries in technology adoption, but regulatory guidelines have prompted a wave of change. This week, Ricoh announced new research it commissioned from IDC Health Insights, which highlights the current technology needs of hospitals and how technology upgrades can help hospitals achieve meaningful use and accountable care benefits. The study reveals 83% of hospitals reporting opportunities to integrate workflows across departments,
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EHRs are Oppressive Straitjackets for the Practice of Medicine
Editor's Note: Margalit Gur-Arie is the founder, BizMed. She writes regularly about the intersection of healthcare & technology on her site: On Health Care Technology. Follow her on Twitter at @margalitgurarie
It was a dark and stormy night. My computer didn’t catch fire while typing the previous sentence. No alarms were triggered warning me about the quality of such opening. I wasn’t prompted to select subjects and predicates from dropdown lists. I typed the entire sentence, letter by
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Ascension Pumps $200M in Accretive Health: 6 Things to Know
Accretive Health and Ascension, faith-based healthcare organization have announced a long-term strategic partnership to renew, revise and expand their existing services agreement for a 10-year term. As part of the agreement, Ascension will serve as Accretive Health's sole revenue cycle provider to cover all of Ascension’s net patient revenue (NPR).
In addition, a newly formed investment vehicle owned by Ascension and TowerBrook Capital Partners has entered into a definitive agreement under
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TCS, Vanderbilt Partner to Fight Genetic Diseases
While an overabundance of health information can sometimes be controversial like in the case of the recent shift around early and aggressive universal breast cancer testing – for those with predispositions to genetic diseases, no amount of information seems to be enough. Predictive testing is quite possibly the most important defense against elusive and devastating diseases like Alzheimer’s, Cystic Fibrosis, Huntington’s Disease and many more.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), as part of a
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Adventist Health To Implement athenahealth’s EHR To Support 1,600 Physicians
Faith-based health care organization Adventist Health System has selected athenahealth's EHR solution to support 1,600 of its employed physicians. This partnership is designed to support Adventist Health System’s goal for its employed physician practice operations to rank nationally at the top quartile or higher.
“After an extensive evaluation that included stakeholders from clinical, operations, technology and other areas across our system, Adventist Health System selected
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DirectTrust: Meaningful Use Stage 3 Faces Bumpy Road in 2016
Meaningful Use Stage 3 faces a potentially uncertain future in 2016 and 2017, according to predictions from healthcare industry alliance DirectTrust. The nonprofit alliance states that MU program has alienated almost the entire provider community by overreaching for the final, Stage 3 version of its regulations.
Additionally, providers are particularly worried because the requirements of Stage 3 MU do not align well with MIPS and MACRA, the new rules under which Medicare will
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eClinicalWorks Pumps $30M to Fuel EHR Expansion to India, Build New Data Center
eClinicalWorks®, a leading ambulatory EHR provider is pumping $30 million in India to build a new data center and expand its footprint in India, reports The Hindu BusinessLine. The company currently employs 1,000 associates in India and plans to develop a new mobile app that provides a search portal matching doctors with patients and book appointments. Doctors using the app can diagnose symptoms and check for drug to drug interference to avoid reactions between medicines prescribed to
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Geisinger to Utilize Cerner’s Population Health Management Platform
Geisinger Health System is collaborating with Cerner to utilize Cerner's HealtheIntent population health management platform to further extend Geisinger’s data-driven population health capabilities.
Geisinger leveraged HealtheIntent, a system-agnostic, near real-time platform that normalizes data from any source, to aggregate clinical and financial data from its core EHR and other sources, such as its insurance company, in a proof-of-concept project. Given the positive outcome of the
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EPCS and Prior Authorizations: Prescriptions for Better Patient Care
Editor's Note: Stephen Beck, MD, FACP, FHIMSS, currently serves as Chief Medical Informatics Officer at Mercy Health .
In 2010, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) revised regulations to give prescribers the option to write electronic prescriptions for controlled substances (EPCS) such as opioids and ADHD medications, while permitting pharmacies to receive, dispense, and archive these e-scripts. EPCS increases patient and community safety, too. Doctors document everything discreetly
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Population Health Management Market Set to Top $32B by 2020
According to a new report from Tractica, the global market for population health management market is expected to more than double in size during the next 5 years, increasing from $14.0 billion in 2015 to $31.9 billion by 2020. The report, “Population Health Management Software and Services”, focuses on the main apps for PHM software, including care coordination and patient interaction, care plan development and management, analytics, and data management, along with PHM services such as
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