Trump nominates EY cybersecurity exec as new VA CIO
President Donald Trump nominated James Paul Gfrerer as Department of Veterans Affairs assistant secretary for information and technology late Friday.Currently, Gfrerer serves as an executive director...
View ArticleeClinicalWorks fined $132,500 by HHS OIG for patient safety risk
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General fined eClinicalWorks $132,550 for failing to report patient safety issues with its EHR to regulators in a specific...
View ArticleVirginia electronically links all of its emergency departments to improve...
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam today announced the launch of the Virginia Emergency Department Care Coordination Program. The single, statewide network connects all hospital emergency departments in...
View ArticleA quick look at one HIE evolving with API-based infrastructure
In recent years, state and regional health information exchanges – the ones that have managed to survive the depletion of federal HITECH incentive dollars, at least – have been forced to adapt to a...
View ArticleAthenahealth revenue up 10%, earnings rise by triple digits
Earnings and cash flow were each up triple digits for athenahealth in the second quarter of fiscal year 2018, and revenue was on the upswing too as the company looks to chart a course through a...
View Articleathenahealth is not a cloud company, Greenlight's David Einhorn says
David Einhorn of investment firm Greenlight Capital said this week that Elliott Management, which earlier this year bought some 9 percent of athenahealth and publicly said it wants to acquire the...
View ArticleCarequality and CommonWell rollout bi-directional health information exchange
CommonWell Health Alliance and Carequality on Thursday kicked off live health information sharing between CommonWell members and healthcare organizations that have adopted the Carequality...
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How NorthShore's Epic EHR is impacting its precision medicine primary care model
As consumer at-home genetic tests become more popular, patients are increasingly interested in how their inherited health impacts their future wellness. At the same time, some hospitals are exploring...
View ArticleAllscripts, Cerner offer a glimpse at tech priorities in new earnings reports
Allscripts' revenue was up 23 percent and earnings up 142 percent for the second quarter of 2018. Cerner's revenues were up 6 percent, but earnings were down by the same number.Two of the largest...
View ArticleCMS Administrator Seema Verma calls for an end to physician fax machines by 2020
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are working together to realize a shared vision for a health ecosystem that...
View ArticleSee the 475 healthcare facilities that achieved HIMSS Analytics Stage 6 EMRAM...
A grand total of 475 healthcare facilities earned HIMSS Analytics EMRAM Stage 6 in July, while another three achieved Stage 7.It’s worth noting that individual health systems commonly validate...
View ArticleNHS units to deploy Allscripts EPR
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust’s board has approved a full business case that will see the organization deploy Allscripts' Sunrise EPR. A recent KLAS Research report looking at the 2017 global...
View ArticlePiedmont Athens Regional goes live with Epic EHR
Georgia-based Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center has gone live with its new Epic electronic health record, following a year and a half of prep work that including the training some 5,000...
View ArticleApple health exec says hospitals are at a convergence point
Apple's clinical and health informatics lead, Ricky Bloomfield, MD, said on Wednesday that health IT is at a unique period in time."We have the convergence of the technology required, with the...
View ArticleOpenEMR patches security bugs that put millions of patient records at risk
Millions of patient records were potentially left vulnerable to attack by more than 20 vulnerabilities discovered by cybersecurity researchers from Project Insecurity.The widely used open source EHR...
View ArticleCommunity Health Systems under scrutiny for EHRs, meaningful use
In a brief mention contained in its Form 10-Q, filed with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission, publicly-traded Community Health Systems revealed that it is facing a "civil investigative...
View ArticleCMS proposes changes to Medicare ACO program that boost telehealth, ease EHR...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services late Thursday proposed overhauling the Accountable Care Organization program in a number of ways related to EHRs and risk-based payment models. On the...
View ArticleDems blast VA 'cronyism' after ProPublica report, launch investigation
A team of House and Senate Democrats launched an investigation into cronyism at the Department of Veterans Affairs after a ProPublica report found that three friends of President Donald Trump are...
View ArticleMajor Australian EHR rollout approaches halfway mark
It contains some of the most remote areas on earth and communities of people suffering from diseases that have no place in a developed nation, but despite colossal challenges, the Northern Territory is...
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CMS, USDS innovators on the future of Blue Button 2.0
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Monday held its first White House hackathon. The topic: Blue Button 2.0.Ahead of the event, I spoke with two technologists, one from CMS and one from...
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