Tag: director
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Healthcare Providers: Are You Providing Enough Data Security?
CIO’s and IT professionals in healthcare organizations are tasked with achieving a balance between the demand for universal access to information and the need to ensure security. As Sheranga Jayasinghe, Director, Information Technology at Canada’s Sunrise Health Region says, “By its very nature, healthcare creates a number of unique challenges, from a highly mobile workforce…
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PwC Study Shows Electronic Medical Records Deliver Efficiencies, Patient Safety, Improved Communication in Canada
With a two-fold increase in adoption since 2006, use of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) in community-based practices in Canada has yielded efficiency and patient care benefits valued at $1.3 billion, an independent study commissioned by Canada Health Infoway and prepared by PwC reveals. The study drew on more than 250 research publications from around the…
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EHR and HIT News for April 20th
Today’s EHR and HIT news includes two customer acquisition articles. The first, is from Halfpenny Technologies on their selection by Orange Accountable Care. The second article, from HealthMEDX on their selection by Riverside Health Systems. Orange Accountable Care Partners with Halfpenny Technologies to help integrate their Care Community Halfpenny Technologies was selected by Orange Accountable…
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Morning Headlines 4/17/13
GOP senators raise concerns with push for electronic medical records Six Republican senators criticize HITECH, saying that EMRs are increasing healthcare spending, that the government lacks a sound interoperability plan, and that the adminsitration is more interested in pushing money out the door than achieving specific goals.
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Starting the Health IT Ball Rolling
Early on in my EHR implementation experience I had an enlightening moment. In the clinic I was working at, we decided to just do a partial implementation of the EHR software in order for us to replace the scheduling and billing side of our current processes. The clinic was using some old scantron like billing…
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EHR and HIT News for March 28th
Today’s EHR and HIT news includes updates from iPatientCare on the release of an updated version of their Patient Portal. There is also news of a product update from iMedicora as well as some personnel news from DataMotion on two additions to its management team. iPatientCare Announces Launch of 2nd Generation of Patient Portal and…
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EHR and HIT News for March 26th
Today’s EHR and HIT News includes customer acquisition news from Elsevier and Emergency Department Information System provider CMR . The day also brings personel news with the announcement of a new Director of Education and Clinical Transformation from ProsSribe . Medical University Of South Carolina Selects Elsevier’s Interdisciplinary Care Planning And Clinical Documentation Solution Elsevier…
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Patient Privacy Monitoring Product FairWarning Receive 2014 ONC HIT Meaningful Use Certification
FairWarning, Inc. has announced that its patient privacy monitoring software has achieved Meaningful Use Modular Certification under the ONC HIT Certification Program, maintained by Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator. The FairWarning productqualifies for certification under ONC 2014 Edition Test Methods and has now been awarded modular certification on applicable criteria for…
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Building the Future through CMS eHealth
By Robert Tagalicod, Director, Office of E-Health Standards and Services Transforming Health Care What is the most important electronic initiative in health care today? Is it the switch to ICD-10 that will enable us to capture information more accurately? The widespread adoption and use of electronic health records (EHRs) to provide an infrastructure for electronic…