Rush Health taps InterSystems for interoperability, care coordination
Chicago-based Rush Health will adopt the InterSystems HealthShare interoperability platform for collaborative care coordination – a platform that will make it possible for the health system to roll out...
View ArticleGoogle Glass startup Augmedix scores $23 million from McKesson Ventures, others
Augmedix, which has harnessed Google Glass technology to develop tools to improve physician workflow and productivity, has secured a $23 million round of funding from new investors McKesson Ventures,...
View ArticleNIH zeroes in on alcohol abuse with projects focused on EHRs, wearables
The National Institutes of Health challenged the biotechnology community on Thursday to design a wearable device able to measure blood alcohol content in real-time for its National Institute on Alcohol...
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drchrono unveils mobile check-in device for patients
Mobile EHR vendor dchrono launched a device that lets patients check themselves in at physicians’ offices. With the device, called Kiosk, providers can equip their front office with an iPad stand that...
View ArticleGetting to Stage 7 on the HIMSS Analytics EMR Adoption Model a big leap from...
AnalyticsEHRsElectronic Health RecordsNetwork InfrastructureWomen In Health ITA former CIO gets a close up look from the assessment side Sue SchadeI recently participated as the CIO reviewer on a HIMSS...
View ArticleCareQuality, Commonwell to collaborate on health data exchange, interoperability
The CommonWell Health Alliance and Carequality announced December 13 they will be collaborating on efforts to boost data sharing among healthcare providers nationwide, committing to work together on...
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Obama signs 21st Century Cures Act into law, funding precision medicine,...
After more than two years in the making, President Barack Obama signed the 21st Century Cures Act into law on December 13.The bill passed with overwhelming approval in both the House and Senate. The...
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Patients frustrated by lack of EHR data interoperability, Surescripts finds
Patients are unhappy there is no central location for their health records, and they are also frustrated at trying to access and share them, according to a new survey from health information network...
View ArticleONC pushing hard on interoperability in last days of Obama administration
Vindell Washington, MD, is aiming to do as much as he possibly can as National Coordinator to advance interoperability and eradicate EHR data blocking before the new Presidential administration steps...
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HIMSS reveals 20 Social Media Ambassadors for HIMSS17
Gearing up for HIMSS17, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society revealed 20 Social Media Ambassadors.The SMAs are handpicked to contribute to a dialogue about the conference, key...
View ArticleFighting back against ransomware: 32 more free decryptors added to No More...
The 'No More Ransom' campaign, established by Intel Security, Kaspersky Lab, Europol and the Dutch National police in July, expanded again with the addition of 34 new partners and 32 new decryptors,...
View ArticleHospital-acquired conditions have declined 21 percent in 5 years, AHRQ says
Technology-enabled patient safety efforts have helped save 125,000 lives and almost $28 billion.A new report compiled by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality shows that a steep drop in...
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athenahealth CMO: Our big moonshot for 2017 is EHR ROI
Almost every healthcare CFO signed off on a big check to implement electronic health records software in the past six years. Not because they knew it would bring the same financial return as a shiny...
View ArticleNational Governors Association posts roadmap for health data interoperability
The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices Health Division published a roadmap to help states boost information flow between providers.Titled “Getting the Right Information to the...
View ArticleFour Prescriptions for a Healthy Disaster Recovery Plan - Rx1
Develop a disaster recovery plan that enables clinicians to provide patient care without disruption. Providing advanced recovery services, co-location and managed recovery-as-a-service are critical to...
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HIMSS CEO plans to step down in 2017
Steve Lieber, president and chief executive of HIMSS since 2000, announced his plan to retire today. Lieber broke the news to the HIMSS staff in a morning conference call, saying that he expected to...
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Physician-executive shares tips on building an IT infrastructure for...
Many larger health systems are embracing the vast new promise of precision medicine, and many of them are learning from each other as they go. At HIMSS17, John Deeken, MD, of Fairfax, Virginia-based...
View ArticleSome 171,000 docs to face meaningful use payment adjustments in 2017
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will reduce Medicare payments for fewer physicians in 2017 than in years past, but the adjustment for those not meeting meaningful use will be bigger:...
View ArticleONC releases 2017 Interoperability Standards Advisory
The Office of the National Coordinator for IT on Dec. 20 released its Interoperability Standards Advisory for 2017, collecting essential standards and implementation specifications for technology...
View ArticleCedars-Sinai, Sutter Health, NorthShore, others sign on with Surescripts...
In an expansion that now covers 140 million patients and more than 2 billion patient visits, Surescripts says providers in eight health systems are the most recent to go live with its National Record...
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