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Swamped With Knowledge – 8th Annual Critical Care Conference. JACO will be attending the Swamped with Knowledge Conference, presented by the North Central Florida Chapter.

Verisk Health, Phytel Team To Offer A Combined Solution To Help Providers Navigate Shifting Risk Models. Phytel, the leader in automated, provider-led population health improvement, and Verisk Health, a leader in data-driven risk assessment and performance management technologies, announced recently a strategic agreement to develop an integrated solution that combines claims-based risk assessment and medical…

T-System Provides Complimentary Documentation Templates To Help Emergency Departments Manage National Flu Epidemic. Responding to the heavy influx of flu patients inundating emergency departments (EDs) across the country, T-System, Inc.recently announced offering its T Sheetsflu documentation template free of charge to hospitals to help their EDs manage the national flu epidemic.

TPP announces integration with Medical Interoperability Gateway. Together with system suppliers EMIS and In Practice Systems (INPS), who already share patient records via the Healthcare Gateway platform, they will now cover over 95% of GP practices in the UK

Podcast: e-Patient Dave on the Future, Past of Patient Engagement (Part 2). This is part two of a two-part podcast interview with Dave deBronkart, also known as e-Patient Dave, as he continues his discussion with Associate Editor Gabriel Perna about the future opportunities as well as the past and current challenges of patient engagement. In…

New NCQA Certification Program Identifies Medical Home Experts. The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) has launched a credential program—Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) Content Expert Certification—that gives individuals a way to demonstrate their knowledge of the NCQA PCMH recognition program, an innovative program for improving primary care. The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) has…

HIMSS Analytics: HITECH Achieving its Intended Result. According to the analytics arm of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), HIMSS Analytics, the number of hospitals adopting EHRs has increased steadily over the past year. The number of hospitals that have reached Stage 5 and 6 of HIMSS Analytics’ Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model…

Proud to be Paperless. In less than a year, the 168-bed Florida Hospital North Pinellas has reached the highest level of EMR progress, an accomplishment that was well worth all the effort and hard work that went into it. Ten months ago, Karen Owensby, chief clinical officer at Florida Hospital North Pinellas—an Adventist Health System…

EHR Association Responds To HIT Policy Committee Request For Comments On Stage 3 Meaningful Use. The EHR Association has responded to the HIT Policy Committee’s Request for Comments on Stage 3 meaningful use requirements through their usual workgroup-led collaborative effort, with representatives from 24 of our 41 member companies working on this effort.