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Rhode Island providers gain efficiencies, better-targeted care by leveraging...
Rhode Island Quality Institute is using its statewide health information exchange to send real-time notifications for care transitions to and from emergency departments and hospitals. The alerts...
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Advanced analytics use for pop health earns NorthShore HIMSS Stage 7...
NorthShore University HealthSystem gained Stage 7 revalidation from HIMSS Analytics for its hospitals and associated clinics, again attaining the highest level on both the acute care Electronic Medical...
View ArticleTop 10 cybersecurity must-haves for 2017
The healthcare industry was riddled with cybersecurity issues in 2016 as ransomware, human error, IoT flaws and hacking attempts were some of the biggest problem areas.The good news is that it appears...
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HIMSS17 Social Media Ambassador Max Stroud: Patients' desire to connect...
Max Stroud, aka @MMaxwellStroud, is a lead consultant with Galen Healthcare Solutions and the founder of Doyenne Connections, a social network designed to foster opportunities for women in health IT....
View ArticleCMS extends 2016 quality reporting deadline for hospital IQR and meaningful use
Eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals participating in the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting program and/or the Medicare EHR Incentive Program will have a bit of extra time for submission...
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CIO of the Year Pamela Arora: We have a 'sacred responsibility'
Ask Pamela Arora, who was just named CIO of the Year by CHIME and HIMSS, about her career achievements and she quickly moves the spotlight to her staff.“My proudest achievement as a CIO is leading a...
View ArticleTom Price takes aim at the inefficiencies of meaningful use, questions how to...
Rep. Tom Price, MD, the Georgia Republican tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to be the next U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, spent four hours testifying before the Senate Health,...
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HIMSS, AMDIS name Peter Basch, MD Physician Executive Leader of the Year
Peter Basch, MD, senior director of health IT quality and safety, research and national health IT policy for Washington, D.C.-based MedStar Health, has received the 2016 HIMSS Physician IT Leadership...
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Mercy wins 2016 HIMSS Davies Enterprise Award
Mercy, the St. Louis-based Catholic health system with 43 hospitals and 700-plus physician practices across Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas and Oklahoma, has won a 2016 HIMSS Davies Enterprise Award.HIMSS...
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Mostashari: Value-based care demands free-flowing data
To say that a lot has changed in healthcare since last year’s HIMSS conference is an understatement. Right now, a new Congress and a new Administration are wrestling with how to repeal and replace the...
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Unique health safety identifiers for better outcomes
Last year, the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) found that, on average, 10 percent of a health organization’s patient records are duplicates. Why is this statistic so...
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Tips for managing legacy employees during big EHR implementations
When a hospital implements a new electronic health record system, there's no shortage of challenges to grapple with as the years wear on and the costs pile up.Chief among them is the fact that, as the...
View ArticleAdopting a Unique Health Safety Identifier
Author: Lenovo HealthSponsor: Lenovo HealthPrimary topic: Electronic Health RecordsTopic: Electronic Health RecordsPatient EngagementExternal url:...
View ArticleWhy Healthcare Providers Need Device Convergence
Sponsor: ProcensisPrimary topic: WorkflowTopic: Electronic Health RecordsWorkflowResource Central: White PapersExternal url:...
View ArticleChildren’s National Health System taps Cerner for revenue cycle management
Children's National Health System will roll out Millennium Revenue Cycle, a Cerner suite of RCM technology that will be integrated with the health system's existing Cerner EHR and scheduling...
View ArticleHIMSS Analytics sees longer-term growth for telemedicine, biometric security...
HIMSS Analytics' newest Essentials Brief offers a look back at health IT market trends in 2016 – and ahead to the rest of this year and beyond, projecting purchasing demand for 81 different...
View ArticleDirect message transactions surging as the interoperability tool gains ground...
Six years after its first pilot projects were announced in 2011, Direct messaging could be reaching critical mass. Transactions increased 146 percent during 2016, according to a new DirectTrust report,...
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Epic to advance patient engagement value proposition at HIMSS17
It’s only one piece of several other displays, demonstrations and discussions happening inside the 110x100 square-foot Epic Systems booth at HIMSS17, but “Make More Money with Epic” seems primed to...
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John Muir cuts $5 million from IT budget with benchmarking
It’s a story healthcare has heard before: Hospital installs expensive electronic health records software, must rein in spending to avoid hefty losses. For California’s John Muir Health, that meant a...
View ArticleFour Prescriptions for a Healthy Disaster Recovery Plan - Rx3
With healthcare organizations managing hundreds of applications on myriad platforms within their enterprise, streamlining IT management is critical. With on- and off-premise resources needing to be...
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