Tag: Organization
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CORHIO Links 118 Providers to HIE
South Metro Primary Care (SMPC), one of the largest primary care independent practice associations in the Denver metro area, along with their medical management company Physician Health Partners (PHP), have announced plans to connect the electronic health records (EHR) of its 118 primary care providers to the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO) health information…
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Using Project Management to Turn the Key on CPOE Success
While more hospitals are implementing CPOE systems, adoption rates still could be higher. HCI Assistant Editor Rajiv Leventhal talks with UMC Health System CIO Bill Eubanks about the transition to CPOE, effective strategies that made it happen, and challenges the organization faced along the way. According to research from the San Jose, Calif.-based Global Industry…
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PQRS Made Easy
It’s easy to earn a bonus and avoid Medicare Fee penalties by participating in the PQRS program. Participation in the Physician Quality Reporting System, formerly known as PQRI, no longer has to involve complex coding systems and expensive manual processes. Covisint simplifies PQRS and generates revenue for your organization.
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Readers Write: The Cost Savings Realized by Single-Platform Solutions
The Cost Savings Realized by Single-Platform Solutions By Deborah Kohn Medicare cutbacks, increased mergers and acquisitions, and declining revenues and margins are daily realities for healthcare provider organizations. Yet so are costly and often mandatory IT initiatives, such as replacing or implementing electronic health and financial record (EH&FR) systems, integrating and securing the next mobile…
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Mount Sinai Announces Personalized Medicine Platform
The Mount Sinai Medical Center, the New York City-based 1,171 bed tertiary- and quaternary-care teaching facility, has announced it's creating a new data management and analysis platform that will be able to communicate with the organization’s electronic health record. The platform, Mount Sinai says, will be able to give doctors real-time therapeutic and diagnostic guidance…
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What the heck is an Accountable Care Organization?
A CommonHealth cartoon. In January, 2012, 32 organizations began their participation in the Pioneer ACO Model. The Pioneer ACO Model encourages primary care doctors, specialists, ho…
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Security concerns hindering polio immunizations in Pakistan, WHO official says
“Some 240,000 children have missed U.N.-backed vaccinations against polio because of security concerns in Pakistan’s tribal regions bordering Afghanistan, a top official with the World Health Organization said Friday,” the Associated Press/Huffington Post reports.
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Why provider workflow must be a priority during IT implementation
For providers asked to use new technologies like electronic health records and analytics tools, workflow impact, no doubt, is a top of mind issue. In a recent interview with the Institute for Heath Technology Transformation, Stephen Beck, chief medical informatics officer at Cincinnati-based Catholic Health Partners, said that's exactly how he approaches his organization's IT implementation processes
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SecureCare Announces Updates to Sfax – a HIPAA Compliant Cloud Faxing ProductProduct
SecureCare has announced the release of an updated version of Sfax – its secure, HIPAA compliant, cloud-based faxing product. Sfax v3 maintains the essential benefits that keep faxing relevant but removes the pain associated with manual faxing by bringing it to the cloud. Healthcare organizations rely on fax for business-critical documents – Sfax v3, now…