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AMA Comments On Meaningful Use Stage 3 EHR Program. The American Medical Association (AMA) recently submitted formal comments to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) on the Health IT Policy Committee’s proposal for Stage 3 of the Medicare/Medicaid meaningful use electronic health record (EHR) program requirements.

Healthcare Leaders Join KLAS Advisory Board. Three industry-recognized healthcare leaders join KLAS to help provide strategic guidance as members of the company's Advisory Board.

FACES Foundation Adopts SOAPware Electronic Health Record To Help Bring High Quality Care To Medically Underserved Patients. Through their recent procurement of the SOAPware electronic health record, non-profit medical care organization, FACES Foundation, seeks to provide high-quality care for its medically underserved clients with a new level of coordination.

Infosys Transforms NovaSom’s Sleep Apnea Diagnostic Portal To Significantly Speed Test Result Processing. Infosys, a global leader in consulting and technology, has partnered with NovaSom, Inc., the leader in home testing for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), to significantly improve the efficiency of administering and analyzing results of home tests.

Esri Partners With Intellimed International Corp. To Offer Hospitals Advanced Demographics. Esri recently announced that it will provide Phoenix, Arizona-based Intellimed International Corp., a major health care data and analytics company, with updated demographic data for its future health care forecasting and planning projects with hospitals.

More Doctors, Hospitals Partner To Coordinate Care For People With Medicare. Accountable Care Clinical Services, PC, has been selected as one of 106 new Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) in Medicare, ensuring as many as 4 million Medicare beneficiaries across the United States now have access to high-quality, coordinated care, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary…

Top Healthcare Executives Join KLAS Advisory Board. Three industry-recognized healthcare leaders have joined Orem, Utah-based KLAS Research to help provide strategic guidance as members of the company's advisory board. Three industry-recognized healthcare leaders have joined Orem, Utah-based KLAS Research to help provide strategic guidance as members of the company's advisory board. KLAS announced that the…

Health IT in Obama’s Second Term. One word sums up what winning a second term means to Obama administration government technology initiatives: continuity. In the weeks immediately after the election, I got the chance to interview an assortment of experts for a Government Technology magazine article about what they expect from the second Obama administration…

INDUSTRY-EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: CIO Dan Drawbaugh on UPMC’s Groundbreaking Analytics Agenda. As the vast UPMC health system in Pittsburgh moves forward on its big-data journey, senior vice president and CIO Dan Drawbaugh shares his perspectives on that journey exclusively with HCI’s Mark Hagland. Among the top learnings so far: the level of collaboration between and among…