Nearly a year after selecting Epic for its single, integrated EHR and revenue cycle management (RCM) system, Mayo Clinic is selling its 62,000 square-foot data center located in Rochester, MN to Epic for $46M in a sale-leaseback deal, Finance & Commerce reports.
Leaseback, short for 'sale-and-leaseback,' is a financial transaction, where one sells an asset and leases it back for the long-term; therefore, one continues to be able to use the asset but no longer owns it. As part of the
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Interoperability Will Define Health IT Vendors In 2016
For the last five years I have witnessed at length the bold predictions of how many startups and app focused companies will revolutionize healthcare as they did the consumer industry. I was always a skeptic and viewed the 'evangelizing' of healthcare apps as being wishful thinking rather than being based on any evidence.
Don't get me wrong, apps are a critical component of clinical IT systems for patients and clinicians but they're just that - one component. A gateway to much more important
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In Retrospective, Meaningful Use was Meaningless
We don’t win anymore in health care. After repeatedly drilling in our heads that America’s sick care system is a disaster, that those who care for the sick are incompetent and stupid, and that the sick themselves are losers, Meaningful Use was advertised as the means by which technology will make health care great again.
The program has been in place for 5 years and the great promise of Meaningful Use is just around the same corner it was back in 2011. The only measurable changes from the
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53% of Consumers Can’t Access Their Electronic Health Data
74% of consumers say easy electronic access to health data would improve their knowledge of their health and improve communication with their physicians, according to a recent survey. The October/November 2015 HealthMine survey of 502 U.S. consumers reveals 53% of consumers cannot access all of their health data from a computer. With higher deductibles and rising healthcare costs, Americans rolling into their 2016 health plans will assume more responsibility for both the cost and control of
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5 Secure Messaging Trends to Watch for in 2016
TelmedIQ’s CEO Ben Moore shares his insights on what’s trending in secure messaging as the data exchange evolution in healthcare continues.
The popularity and proliferation of health information technology (HIT) has led to the following quandary: how do we keep all that vital, personal information safe, secure and HIPAA compliant? It’s a question that has stopped some providers in their technical tracks, propelling innovators to come up with viable, secure message solutions— like the kind
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drchrono Launches First Fully Featured iPhone EHR
drchrono, the mobile EHR on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and web for physicians and their patients, today announced the launch of its fully featured and clinical documentation iPhone EHR.
Before today, drchrono only allowed a physician to take all of their paper medical forms and put them onto iPad and web, to do rounds and document patient information. With full clinical documentation, a physician can now literally see patients with an iPhone and do his/her rounds.
Key features of the
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EHRs are Oppressive Straitjackets for the Practice of Medicine
Editor's Note: Margalit Gur-Arie is the founder, BizMed. She writes regularly about the intersection of healthcare & technology on her site: On Health Care Technology. Follow her on Twitter at @margalitgurarie
It was a dark and stormy night. My computer didn’t catch fire while typing the previous sentence. No alarms were triggered warning me about the quality of such opening. I wasn’t prompted to select subjects and predicates from dropdown lists. I typed the entire sentence, letter by
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Adventist Health To Implement athenahealth’s EHR To Support 1,600 Physicians
Faith-based health care organization Adventist Health System has selected athenahealth's EHR solution to support 1,600 of its employed physicians. This partnership is designed to support Adventist Health System’s goal for its employed physician practice operations to rank nationally at the top quartile or higher.
“After an extensive evaluation that included stakeholders from clinical, operations, technology and other areas across our system, Adventist Health System selected
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DirectTrust: Meaningful Use Stage 3 Faces Bumpy Road in 2016
Meaningful Use Stage 3 faces a potentially uncertain future in 2016 and 2017, according to predictions from healthcare industry alliance DirectTrust. The nonprofit alliance states that MU program has alienated almost the entire provider community by overreaching for the final, Stage 3 version of its regulations.
Additionally, providers are particularly worried because the requirements of Stage 3 MU do not align well with MIPS and MACRA, the new rules under which Medicare will
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eClinicalWorks Pumps $30M to Fuel EHR Expansion to India, Build New Data Center
eClinicalWorks®, a leading ambulatory EHR provider is pumping $30 million in India to build a new data center and expand its footprint in India, reports The Hindu BusinessLine. The company currently employs 1,000 associates in India and plans to develop a new mobile app that provides a search portal matching doctors with patients and book appointments. Doctors using the app can diagnose symptoms and check for drug to drug interference to avoid reactions between medicines prescribed to
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