Without a doubt, the death of American veterans as a result of the VA waitlist debacle is tragic and unacceptable. The Obama administration must move quickly and deliberately to fix the underlying problems and restore faith in the agency.
If these issues were common throughout the VA network of hospitals and clinics, it might make sense to consider dramatic, earth-shaking alternatives like moving veterans to private providers and shuttering the VA. But they are not common. Indeed, as
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HIMSS Analytics Releases 2013 Annual Report of the U.S. Hospital IT Market
HIMSS Analytics and The Dorenfest Institute for Health Information releases a new free report that explores health IT purchasing behaviors by hospital tax status
As part of its ongoing mission to help meet the academic and global demand for health information technology data to improve patient care, The Dorenfest Institute for Health Information, managed by the HIMSS Foundation, has made available its 2012 year-end HIMSS Analytics®Database. The Dorenfest Institute for Health Information, long
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NextGen Healthcare and Mirth Launch Enterprise Interoperability Platform
NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, LLC and its sister company, Mirth, LLC announced today the launch of NextGen® Share, a national Health Information Service Provider (HISP) enabling clients to connect with external providers using industry standards widely adopted by ONC 2014 Edition certified EHR products. NextGen Share equips providers with Direct Secure Messaging capabilities for efficient coordination of care and meeting Meaningful Use Stage 2 Transitions of Care objectives.
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HIMSS and NACCHO Rolls Out New Public Health & HIE Toolkit
To assist public health organizations better understand and use health information exchange, HIMSS and the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) have collaborated to produce the Public Health & HIE Toolkit. The Toolkit was developed to help public health departments understand: • what HIE services are and what types of organizations providing them; • how a health department might use or support such services; and • how to assess whether the value of participating
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9 Dominant Vendors in the Practice Management Market
The global practice management market is poised to grow at a high single-digit CAGR from 2013-2018 to reach $247.1 million by 2018, according to MarketsandMarkets.
The factors propelling the growth of the practice management system market include growing need to integrate healthcare systems, firm government support and increase in patient awareness and better healthcare. On the other hand, the factors restraining the growth of the market include high operational cost and lack of trained IT
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Only Cerner, Epic, and Meditech Expanded EMR Market Share in 2013
Cerner, Epic, and Meditech were the only three EMR solutions to expand their EMR market share in 2013, according to a recent KLAS report. In their latest report entitled, "Clinical Market Share 2014: Competition Mounts as Markets Collide." The report found that Cerner and Epic won the majority of large(over 200 beds) and small facility (200 beds or less) segments.
"EMR vendors that cater to smaller facilities are feeling the pinch and saw a decrease in wins across the board. It is simply
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Cerner Partners with Leidos, Accenture to Bid on $11B DoD EHR Contract
Responding to their EHR competitors, Epic and Allscripts, Cerner Corporation is partnering with Leidos and Accenture Federal Services to bid on the 10 year $11 billion dollar Department of Defense EHR contract, Modern Healthcare reports. Earlier this week, Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Allscripts announced a partnership to bid on the DoD EHR contract.
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Webinar: The Next Great Era Of Healthcare Consulting – Population Health Management
This post is sponsored by Wellcentive
As your clients are preparing for risk-based, outcomes-based reimbursement, you are realizing your firm's service lines need to strategically align with your clients’ emerging clinical and financial needs. Meanwhile, you may have noticed that your clients’ demand for EHR implementation support has declined, as EHR transitions likely peaked more than 12 months ago. So, where to go from here?
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Phillips Partners with Salesforce to Develop A Cloud-Based Care Coordination Platform
Philips and Salesforce.com announced a collaboration to develop a cloud-based care coordination platform, with two clinical applications set to launch this summer.
A range of tech companies from Apple to Samsung to Google have been proposing solutions to healthcare’s biggest challenge – putting the rapidly-growing volume of healthcare data to good use. But while those “platforms” involve consumer health data, they don’t integrate a key piece of the healthcare puzzle – clinical data.
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CareCloud Nabs $25.5M in Venture Debt from Hercules Technology Growth Capital
CareCloud, provider of cloud-based practice management, electronic health records (EHR), and medical billing software and services, today announced that it has received a $25.5 million debt financing commitment from Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc., the leading specialty finance company focused on providing senior secured loans to venture capital-backed companies in technology-related markets, including technology, biotechnology, life science, and energy & renewable technology
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