Rhode Island’s largest health care system, Lifespan announced it is now live on Epic's EHR platform creating an integrated platform to share information seamlessly throughout the health care system, from hospitals and clinics, to ambulatory centers and community partners, Rhode Island Public Radio reports. The new system also provides one integrated record where clinicians can chart patients’ care and health condition, promoting better, safer and more coordinated care.
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HBMA, AHIMA Establish Partnership To Share Educational Benefits
The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) and the Healthcare Billing and Management Association (HBMA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding that will allow the associations to collaborate and share educational benefits with their members.
The agreement increases the amount of resources available to members of each association and provides opportunities for collaboration on best practices and procedures to ensure the quality of health information. “Both AHIMA and
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Medsphere System, Phoenix Health Systems Merge Together
Medsphere Systems Corporation and Phoenix Health Systems today announced the merger of the two companies, effectively adding Phoenix’s comprehensive and diverse information technology (IT) expertise to Medsphere’s existing focus on VA VistA and VistA-derived systems. Moving forward, Phoenix Health Systems will retain its name and operate as a division of Medsphere; the expanded company will now offer a broader menu of IT services, including hosting and cloud-based interoperability,
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Vocera Expands Clinical Integration with Epic’s EHR System
Vocera Communications, Inc., a provider of intelligent, real-time communication and collaboration solutions for mission-critical mobile environments, announced a two-way clinical integration with Epic’s EHR system, furthering the company’s commitment to connectivity across the continuum of care. The enhanced functionality enables interactive communication between EHR systems and the Vocera Communication System.
This will be the first of several two-way clinical integrations with EHRs, and
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N.Y. Legislature Approves $45M Budget to Support EHR/HIE Adoption
This week, the New York State Legislature voted to support New York’s EHR/HIE system – known as the Statewide Health Information Network of New York (the SHIN-NY). The final New York State Fiscal Year 2015-16 Budget includes $45M in State funding for the SHIN-NY and its Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs), which will continue the work to build this public network, allowing healthcare providers and patients to seamlessly access electronic health records throughout the state. To
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CommonWell Health Alliance Membership Tops 70% of Acute EHR Market
CommonWell Health Alliance has announced the addition of five new members that enhance the association's nationwide footprint of the EHR marketplace and diversity across the care continuum. MEDITECH, Merge and Kareo join as contributing members while PointClickCare and Surgical Information Systems (SIS) join as general members.
The addition of these new members now represents 70% of the acute care EHR market and 20% of the ambulatory care EHR market. CommonWell membership also represents
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Xerox, SyTrue Partner to Transform Clinical Documentation At The Point of Care
To meet the growing demand for greater transparency, simplicity, and value, Xerox has chosen SyTrue’s Clinical Natural Language Processing (NLP) and medical terminology platform in the development of Midas+ Advanced Analytics capabilities at Xerox. The combined solution will leverage NLP and interoperability solutions to transform clinical documentation and other types of data in the electronic medical record (EMR) into standard diagnosis and procedure codes in real-time; which may then be used
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Consumer Partnership for eHealth Praises ONC’s Draft Interoperability Roadmap
In comments filed on Tuesday, the nation’s top consumer advocates praised the Office of the National Coordinator’s (ONC’s) draft Shared Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap for advancing full and equal interoperability, not just among health care providers but also between providers and patients and their family caregivers. The Consumer Partnership for eHealth (CPeH), a group of more than 50 leading consumer, patient and labor organizations, filed the comments in advance of the April 3
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Despite Closed EHR Records, Health IT is Joining the 21st Century
What’s the technical solution for the health IT interoperability challenge? Do you know? You probably should. Chances are you interact with it frequently.
It’s Amazon, Expedia, Quicken, Concur, etc.
Really, it’s just about any Web site that sells something and enables the use of a credit card. Think about it. You order a book and within moments Amazon’s massive database of partners, products and customers assesses stock availability and pricing, and then securely interacts with your
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HHS CTO Bryan Sivak Steps Down
Bryan Sivak,chief technology officer (CTO) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is stepping down from his post at the end of April.
A 2015 Fed 100 honoree, Sivak is notably known for roles in the development of a "Buyer's Club" to share institutional wisdom on procurement, and the ongoing administration of the Entrepreneurs in Residence program, a one-year program where private sector developers work with the HHS on health innovation initiatives.
Additionally, Sivak served
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