Practice Fusion, a cloud-based EHR platform for doctors and patients, today announced the hiring of four new members to its leadership team: Matt Ackley as Chief Marketing Officer; Dorothy Gemmell as Senior Vice President, Life Science Practice and Strategic Partnerships; Tim Rauschenbach as Vice President, Customer Service and Support; and Dave Caldwell as Senior Vice President, Enterprise Solutions. Additionally, Alan Black has joined Practice Fusion's Board of Directors as its newest
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AMA Supports Legislative Effort to Revise Meaningful Use
This week, the American Medical Association (AMA) declared its strong support for new legislation responding to the depths of doctors’ dissatisfaction with the federal government’s Meaningful Use program. The bill introduced by U.S. Rep. Renee Ellmers from North Carolina would address many problems in the Meaningful Use Program by introducing needed flexibility and enhancing EHR to improve patient care and access to health information.
The Meaningful Use program has spurred 80 percent of
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HIMSS Analytics Honors The National Institutes of Health Clinical Center With Stage 7 Award
HIMSS Analytics awarded the National Institutes of Health (NIH) clinics with a Stage 7 Award. The award represents NIH’s attainment of the highest level on the Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model™ (EMRAM).
HIMSS Analytics developed the EMR Adoption Model in 2005 as a methodology for evaluating the progress and impact of electronic medical record systems for hospitals in the HIMSS Analytics™ Database. There are eight stages (0-7) that measure a hospital’s implementation and utilization of
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Kareo Raises $55M to Expand Small Physician Practice EHR
Kareo, a cloud-based EHR provider for independent medical practices has closed $55.4 million in additional funding led by Montreux Equity Partners with participation from Silver Lake Partners and all of Kareo’s existing investors. This capital will finance the continued development of Kareo’s product line—which enables physicians to manage all major aspects of their practice—as well as expand the company’s market share. Montreux joins Kareo’s top-tier institutional investors, which
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Cerner, Leidos, Accenture Awarded $9B DoD EHR Contract
After an intense bidding war, the Department of Defense has awarded Cerner, Leidos and Accenture Federal Service with DoD EHR Modernization contract. The DoD EHR contract valued at over $4.33 billion will serve 55 hospitals and 600 clinics and must be interoperable with other EHRs. The winning team was selected over the the remaining finalist teams: Epic Systems and IBM and Allscripts aligned with Computer Sciences Corp. and Hewlett-Packard.
DoD EHR Contract Details
The total cost of
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Aetna Executive Joins Welltok as New Chief Technology and Product Officer
Welltok, developers of the CaféWell Health Optimization Platform that guides and incentivizes consumers, announced today the appointment of Brian Garcia as chief technology and product officer. With an established reputation for bringing user-centered design to product and technology, Garcia will lead the ongoing development and architecture of the company’s consumer enterprise platform at a time of exponential growth and innovation for Welltok.
Garcia most recently served as the chief
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Why EMR Patient Portal Technology Isn’t the Answer
In the 80's there was a popular phrase in the IT space: "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM." Buying IBM was a "safe bet" that wouldn't get questions or scrutiny from company leadership. The same today could be said about EMRs. Purchasing one of the "Big 3" EMR systems to meet federal requirements for incentive programs has been a no-brainer for the last decade.
However, now that meaningful use of those records by patients is necessary, many medical professionals are struggling with their
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GHX Supply Chain Helps Hospitals Integrate GDSN Data
As providers work to comply with ongoing FDA regulation rollouts for Unique Device Identifiers (UDI), as well to as improve supply chain efficiencies and visibility, ensuring clean, standardized product data is increasingly essential.
Today, healthcare supply chain leader GHX introduced the latest version of its NuVia content management solution that integrates data from the Global Data Synchronization Network (GDSN). With this release, GHX enables healthcare providers to access relevant
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Report: Multimedia Patient Engagement Programs Increases HCAHPS Scores
Emmi Solutions, a provider of outcomes-driven patient engagement, analyzed nearly 100,000 HCAHPS surveys from multiple service lines in 29 hospitals across the country and demonstrated that patients who viewed one of the company’s web-based, interactive programs reported higher patient satisfaction scores when compared with patients who had not. Patient satisfaction scores have always been important to providers but now that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are tying
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Is Accountability The Missing Element in Better Healthcare?
Editor’s Note: Irv Lichtenwald is president and CEO of Medsphere Systems Corporation, the solution provider for the OpenVista electronic health record. Prior to joining Medsphere, he served as CFO of Advent Software, a leading provider of investment management solutions. Between 1995 and 2003, Irv led Advent through three public stock offerings.
Who is accountable for the actions of Adam Lanza, the troubled young man who in December 2012 killed 26 people in Newtown, Connecticut?
He is, of
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