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Tokyo Olympics presents an opportunity to advance interoperability
When the Tokyo Olympic games begin in July 2020, the world’s attention will be focused on healthy competition. The people behind a new HIMSS initiative is hoping they will also learn about the value...
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Investors are putting their dollars into patient experience
ORLANDO ― Personalized health and wellness are the top areas where investors are placing their money, according to Polina Hanin, academy director at StartUp Health, speaking at Sunday’s Venture+ Forum...
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athenahealth partners with medical societies to roll out cloud network to...
athenahealth announced at HIMSS17 that it will roll out a series of “Network Medicine” health campaigns. Working in collaboration with prominent specialty societies, including the American Association...
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McKesson previews early version of InterQual Auto Review at HIMSS17
McKesson is showing an early version of its InterQual Auto Review software here at HIMSS17. The product, which comes out of a partnership with the National Decision Support Company, automates medical...
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Medical Identity Theft: Problems and Prevention
In 2014, nearly 9 million patient health records were breached in 164 reported incidents. By March 2015, that number had increased tenfold. In fact, it is estimated that one in three health records...
View ArticleMcKesson previews software for extracting clinical data from EHRs
ORLANDO - McKesson is showing an early version of its InterQual Auto Review software here at HIMSS17. The product, which comes out of a partnership with the National Decision Support Company, automates...
View ArticleHow do HCCs impact the shift to value-based payment?
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View ArticleAre Your Claims Ready for Value-Based Reimbursement (VBR)?
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View Article7 Steps to Improve HCC Capture for Value-Based Payment
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As EHRs frustrate and patient portals go unused, tips for creating...
Lorraine Chapman, senior director of healthcare at Macadamian, a UX design and development firm, said here at HIMSS17 that "healthcare is late to the game in terms of user experience." For any patients...
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Epic CEO Judy Faulkner reveals two new EHR versions are in development
What a difference one year can make. In the world of Epic founder and CEO Judy Faulkner, where creating new technology meets with a delight for words, 2016 was a productive and rewarding year.How...
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Argonaut Project building on success with FHIR implementation guide
Earlier this month, the HL7 Argonaut Project published its FHIR Data and Document Query Implementation Guide, which it bills as a "major step forward" for the agile interoperability standard.At HIMSS17...
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With performance measurement now underway, CMS officials unpack MIPS categories
ORLANDO – The rule was only finalized four months ago, but we're already in the initial performance year for the new Merit-based Incentive Payment System, which ushered in sweeping changes for how...
View ArticleHIMSS17: Tuesday Highlights
The action continues on day two of HIMSS17 with a Women in Health IT Roundtable, Cybersecurity Command Center presentations, and more. Attendees share what they've learned from the hundreds of...
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Logicalis debuts service desk offering for Epic EHR implementations
Logicalis Healthcare Solutions, part of international IT and managed services vendor Logicalis US, has introduced at HIMSS17 a new service desk offering, dubbed Service Desk for Epic.The new service is...
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Blockchain's potential use cases for healthcare: hype or reality?
ORLANDO – At HIMSS17 on Wednesday, IEEE Computer Society and the Personal Connected Health Alliance hosted a day-long event focused on the potentially transformative promise of an intriguing...
View ArticleNuance, Epic partner to help veterans with disabilities
Nuance Communications and Epic Systems are collaborating on putting artificial intelligence and health IT to work helping wounded warriors.There are nearly 20 million military veterans in the U.S., and...
View ArticleFour Prescriptions for a Healthy Disaster Recovery Plan - Rx4
Healthcare organizations rely on IT teams to carry out their strategic initiatives, such as interoperability across systems. However, in order to deploy these initiatives and comply with federal...
View ArticleAllscripts, NantHealth team with Cancer Treatment Centers of America to...
Cancer Treatment Centers of America is implementing a custom technical solution that enables eviti, a NantHealth clinical decision support system, access to clinical workflows in the Allscripts Sunrise...
View ArticleWinners of ONC's Move Health Data Forward Phase 2 challenge show viable new...
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT announced the Phase 2 winners of the Move Health Data Forward Challenge at HIMSS17 this past week. Awarded $20,000 each, the five winning groups...
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