Author: trident50
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Internet Explorer flaw latest security worry for healthcare CIOs
A new vulnerability–dubbed Operation Clandestine Fox–looms as a threat for all healthcare CIOs using Internet Explorer, according to attorney Kathie McDonald-McClure of law firm Wyatt Tarrant & Combs LLP. read more …read more
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Valley General Hospital Selects OpenVista Electronic Health Record
Medsphere Systems Corporation has announced that Washington state’s Valley General Hospital has selected the OpenVista® EHR system. The Snohomish County community hospital, located northeast of Seattle, expects to save roughly 50 percent on clinical IT costs with OpenVista while losing nothing in terms of functionality. “Medsphere welcomes Valley General to our community of hospital partners…
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Rapid Advances in Health IT Adoption and Use in the Safety Net
Federally funded health centers are making strides adopting and using electronic health records (EHRs) to treat some of the nation’s poorest and most at-risk patients since the enactment of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, according to a new first-of-its-kind study. We know that health IT can help found that…
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Health IT not a cure-all for improving patient engagement
As the expression goes, you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink. To that end, although you can get patients to sample an eHealth solution, getting them to continue its use and to use it in a meaningful way is a more significant challenge, according to one practitioner. read more…
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AHIMA pushes advanced degrees for information pros
Adapt or disappear, the American Health Information Management Association warns as it presses its members to pursue advanced training with its Reality 2016 education initiative. read more …read more
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Maine Event: Dev Culver Leads HealthInfoNet into Groundbreaking Innovation
Dev Culver, executive director of Maine’s statewide HIE, HealthInfoNet, is helping to lead his organization into uncharted territory, with a first-ever statewide, clinical data-facilitated patient event notification system There are few leaders in the health information exchange (HIE) space in healthcare IT whose work is more advanced than that of Devore (Dev) Culver, the executive…
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Population Health Management (PHM) – The New Health IT Buzzword
For some reason in healthcare IT we like to go through a series of buzzwords. They rotate through the years, but usually have a very similar meaning. The best example is EMR and EHR. You could nuance a difference between the two terms, but in practice they both are used interchangeably and we all know…
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Hospitals Struggle With View, Download and Especially Transmit, Survey Finds
Speaking at the May 6 Health IT Policy Committee meeting, ONC’s Jennifer King detailed some findings from an American Hospital Association survey conducted in late 2013. Only 10 percent reported the capability to let patients view, download and transmit their data. And although this is not a Stage 2 requirement, she noted, only 13 percent…
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AHA Survey: HIE Among U.S. Hospitals Has Grown, But Work Remains
In 2013, more than six in 10 hospitals electronically exchanged health information with providers outside of their system according to results of the 2013 American Hospital Association (AHA) annual health IT survey. In 2013, more than six in 10 hospitals (62 percent) electronically exchanged health information with providers outside of their system according to results…
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Mobile Health Apps Lack Behavior-Change Techniques
Behavior-change techniques are not well represented in the marketing materials for top-rated physical-activity apps, according to a team of Penn State researchers. They also found that two types of physical-activity apps are available on the market—those that focus on educating users on how to perform different exercises and those that focus on supporting users’ motivation…