Parkview Health System, Inc. has agreed to pay $800,000 in HIPAA violation settlement in medical records dumping case, according to the HHS. In addition to the $800,000 resolution amount, the settlement includes a corrective action plan requiring Parkview to revise their policies and procedures, train staff, and provide an implementation report to OCR. Parkview is a nonprofit health care system that provides community-based health care services to individuals in northeast Indiana and northwest
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NextGen Healthcare and 3M Partner to Offer ICD-10 Education Program
NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, LLC., provider of healthcare information systems and connectivity solutions, announced today it has teamed with 3M Health Information Systems to offer 3M’s robust, web-based ICD-10 Education Program industry wide. The agreement strengthens the arsenal of resources NextGen Healthcare makes available to aid both clients and non-clients as they successfully transition to ICD-10.
Designed to help ease the transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10, the 3M ICD-10
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Top 5 Best Practices for Launching a Hospital Patient Portal
Siemens case study highlights five best practices and lessons learned for successfully launching a hospital patient portal.
In implementing its hospital patient portal, Main Line Health’s goal was to create a one-stop portal for its 10,000 plus employee health system. With four acute-care hospitals, several outpatient facilities, a physical medicine and rehab hospital and a drug and alcohol treatment center, Main Line Health needed a solution that could quickly relay information from
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ConvergeHEALTH by Deloitte Collaborates with Regenstrief Institute Partners to Accelerate the Use of Real World Evidence in Health Care
ConvergeHEALTH by Deloitte and the Regenstrief Institute, Inc. are announcing that Regenstrief, an internationally recognized informatics and health care research organization, has become a member of ConvergeHEALTH’s real-world evidence and analytics consortium.
Regenstrief joins Intermountain Healthcare and Moffitt Cancer Center/M2Gen as part of a rapid-learning network established by ConvergeHEALTH to support the health industry’s shift toward a value-based system featuring personalized
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Gartner Ranks Dell the #1 IT Services Provider in Healthcare
Today, Dell Services announced it was ranked by Gartner as the number one worldwide IT Services provider in healthcare based on 2013 revenue. In 2014, Dell has added contracts from new and existing healthcare customers, as well as expanded legacy application support services for a major healthcare enterprise and signed a multi-million dollar contract with a new healthcare customer to provide service management, end user computing and database management services.
So far this year, Dell has
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Keys to Implementing a Sustainable Population Health Management Program
White paper from Siemens examines some of the critical success factors for a sustainable population health management program.
Population health management (PHM) has become and will continue to be a top priority for healthcare providers as the industry shifts from the current fee-for-service to new value-based purchasing models. Provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are driving the adoption of these models, which are designed to improve the quality of American healthcare, while large
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Nuance’s Clintegrity CDI Generates $2.2M Gain in Revenue for Valley Medical Center
Nuance's Clintegrity CDI generates $2.2 million gain in appropriate revenue and enables 11% improvement in Case Mix Index (CMI) for Valley Medical Center.
Nuance Communications, Inc. announced today that Valley Medical Center, part of the University of Washington Medical Center, has achieved higher levels of clinical excellence and gained additional revenue through proper reimbursements thanks to Nuance Clintegrity 360 solutions. Valley Medical has improved the quality of clinical information
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Only 8 Hospitals Have Attested for Meaningful Use Stage 2
Only 8 hospitals have attested for meaningful use stage 2 out of a total of 75 hospitals during the 2014 reporting year, according to the latest data released by CMS. For physicians, only 447 eligible providers have attested for MU Stage 2 out of total 1,497.
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Healthcare Information System Market Expected to Reach $53.2B Globally by 2019
The Healthcare Information System Market was valued at $35.1 billion and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 7.1% from 2013 to 2019, to reach an estimated value of $53.2 billion by 2019, according to a new market report published by Transparency Market Research.
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44% of Healthcare Organizations Use the Cloud for Hosting Clinical Applications
44 percent of healthcare organizations use the cloud for hosting clinical applications, according to the latest HIMSS Analytics Inaugural Cloud Survey. Other typical cloud services include Health Information Exchange (HIE), hosting human resources (HR) applications and data as well as backup and disaster recovery. Hosting clinical applications was identified as the most common area for which healthcare organizations rely on cloud services.
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