David Einhorn, President of hedge fund Greenlight Capital, Inc. poked fun at Athenahealth during this year's Ira Sohn conference claiming the company is "overpriced and caught up in a bubble."
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Leidos Lands $12M VA Contract for Consolidated Mail Outpatient Pharmacy
Leidos, a national security, health and engineering solutions company, was awarded a prime contract to provide systems integration support and services to the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) Consolidated Mail Outpatient Pharmacy (CMOP).
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Rhode Island Eye Institute Selects CareCloud’s Practice Management Offering
CareCloud, provider of cloud-based practice management, electronic health records (EHR), and medical billing software and services, today announced that The Rhode Island Eye Institute has selected CareCloud’s cloud-based practice management solution, CareCloud Central, for its 20 providers across four locations.
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Gartner Names the “Coolest” Vendors for Healthcare Providers and Payers
New Gartner report highlights the “coolest” innovative vendors for healthcare providers and payers in the industry.
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51% of RECs Spent Between $5 and $9M to Assist Providers Achieve MU Stage 1
More than half of Regional Extension Centers (RECs) indicated that they had spent between $5 and $9 million assisting providers in their region achieve MU Stage 1, according to the 2014 HIMSS Regional Extension Center Survey.
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BREAKING: ICD-10 Compliance Date Set for Oct. 1, 2015
A CMS spokeswoman has official announced the new effective date for ICD-10 compliance will be October 1, 2015.
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Incorporating Better Functions into EHRs Will Help Reduce Health Disparities
To advance the goal that federal health IT policy facilitates better care, better outcomes and lower costs for patients and families, the Consumer Partnership for eHealth (CPeH) provided comments this week on the draft 2015 Edition of Electronic Health Record (EHR) Certification Criteria, released by the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) in February.
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CMS Meaningful Use Incentive Payments Tops $22.9B As of March 2014
As of March 2014, more than 371,000 health care providers have received $22.9 billion in meaningful use incentive payments for participating in the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs, according to the latest CMS data.
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10 Steps to Maintaining Health Data Privacy in a Changing Mobile World
iHT2’s research report provides health data privacy best practices for healthcare organizations to protect themselves from security breaches and identify theft.
With stolen EHR charts selling for as much as $50 per chart on the black market, healthcare organizations are increasingly vulnerable to cyber-attacks as the use of web portals for health information exchanges becomes more commonplace. Just last week, two stolen laptops lead to nearly $2 million in HIPAA fines by the HSS. To prevent
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Practice Fusion Partners with Merck on Population Health Management Initiative
The average American doctor sees 2,000 patients per year. On paper, each patient’s information is locked, and the doctor has no ability to look across their patient population to see who's in need of critical care.
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