Author: trident50
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The April HITl Standards Committee meeting
The April Standards Committee began with a tribute to Jon Perlin, who is leaving his chair role of the HIT Standards Committee so that he can focus on his chair role at the American Hospital Association. Jacob Reider, Deputy National Coordinator will serve as the Standards committee chair. I will continue as vice-chair. Jon Perlin…
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EMR and EHR News for April 24th
Today’s EHR and HIT News includes customer acquisition news from both Allscripts and InteHealth, as well as the news of a new report from KLAS on Healthcare Analytics. Southern Illinois University HealthCare selects Allscripts TouchWorks EHR for clinics Southern Illinois University HealthCare (SIU HealthCare), located in Springfield, Ill., has selected Allscripts TouchWorks® electronic health record…
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IBM Expands US Federal Healthcare Practice
IBM has announced new investments in its US Federal Healthcare Practice to address the rapidly growing technology needs of public sector health institutions. The company added big data solutions for advanced clinical care from its IBM Watson Group, new collaborations with IBM Research focused on data management and an expansion of the team with the…
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Q&A: The Opportunity for Patient Engagement in the Community (Part 2 of 2)
Jan Oldenburg is a leading authority on patient engagement, having edited a book for HIMSS on the subject and worked on developing digital engagement systems for Kaiser and Aetna. She talks about patient engagement in the community in part two of this two-part Q&A. Patient engagement and health information technology go hand-in-hand. Or at least…
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Do Security and Privacy Concerns Drive Cloud Adoption?
In one of my recent conversations with Dr. Andy Litt, Chief Medical Officer at Dell, he made a really interesting but possibly counter intuitive observation. While maybe not a direct quote from him, I took away this observation from Dr. Litt: Security and privacy drives people to the cloud. Talk about an ironic statement. I…
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KLAS: Business intelligence healthcare market boasts no clear leader
A clear market leader for healthcare business intelligence tools has yet to emerge, according to a new report from Orem, Utah-based KLAS. read more …read more
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DeSalvo, Fridsma discuss ‘evolution’ of HIT standards committee
Members of the Health IT Standards Committee at a meeting in Washington, D.C., Thursday discussed a future that involves a shift at the top and other proposed changes, including more interaction with the Health IT Policy Committee. read more …read more
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Like Policy Committee, Health IT Standards Committee Reorganizing
On April 24, the Health IT Standards Committee discussed the evolution of its workgroup structure, in part to facilitate more cross-pollination with the Policy Committee. At the same meeting, ONC announced that Jacob Reider, M.D., will succeed Jonathan Perlin, M.D., as chair of the committee. On April 14, the federal Health IT Policy Committee (HITPC)…
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Tech could improve care for medically complex, low-income patients
Focus groups concentrated on a key Medicaid population–medically and socially complex, low-income patients–revealed areas for which connected health initiatives could bring improvements, according… read more …read more
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CMS official: We were ready for ICD-10
The ICD-10 delay that went into effect earlier this month won’t be a total “killer” for implementation of the more advanced coding set, according to a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services representative speaking to members of the American Health Information Management Association on Wednesday. read more …read more