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Physician electronic health record adoption is “significantly” higher in rural areas than in urban ones, reversing a trend and signaling an important shift in adoption, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. read more …read more Source:: http://www.fierceemr.com/story/ehr-adoption-grows-rural-doc-practices-reversing-trend/2015-02-09?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss       

0 Many CIOs are supportive of the public API approach and are starting to see their health system IT environment as more of an open ecosystem that could take advantage of web services and less of a walled garden where they own and control everything. There seems to be agreement that a data-centric rather than…

HIMSS Analytics awarded Springhill Medical Center (SMC), in Mobile Ala., with its Stage 7 Ambulatory Award. The award represents Springhill Medical Center’s attainment of the highest level on the Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model™ (EMRAM) for both its hospital and physician practices. Developed in 2011, the EMR Ambulatory Adoption Model provides a methodology for evaluating…

Three ambulatory clinics from Winona Health, nestled in Winona, Minn., have been honored with the HIMSS Analytics Stage 7 Ambulatory Award. Three ambulatory clinics from Winona Health, nestled in Winona, Minn., have been honored with the HIMSS Analytics Stage 7 Ambulatory Award. Developed in 2011, the EMR Ambulatory Adoption Model provides a methodology for evaluating…

A research effort predicting major growth for the hospital information systems (HIS) market is not a shocker, but a recent one from Frost & Sullivan says that most of the increasing revenue will go to non-clinical HIS segments. A research effort predicting major growth for the hospital information systems (HIS) market is not a shocker,…

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have started a new project that will use big data and software to identify patients at risk of high-cholesterol disorder. Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have started a new project that will use big data and software to identify patients at risk of high-cholesterol…

George Reynolds, M.D., CIO and CMIO of Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Omaha, shares his views on what emerging clinical informatics leaders need to know and do, in the new healthcare Only a few years ago in many U.S. patient care organizations (and still today in some), CMIOs were picked out of the crowd of…

By John Halamka BIDMC has self-developed its core clinical information systems for many years. We certified all our applications for the 2011 and 2014 ONC criteria, attesting to Meaningful Use Stage 1 and 2 in every appropriate year. BIDMC has hundreds of person-years invested in our web-based, cloud-hosted in-patient and out-patient applications. The culture of…

David Chou, CIO at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, talks about the natural challenges and struggles that is patient engagement. He says healthcare needs to be more retail-oriented, and focus on serving end users like Amazon does with its customers. The requirements surrounding patient engagement for Stage 2 of meaningful use are controversial, to…

Alan Weiss, MD, MBA is director of medical informatics with Memorial Hermann Medical Group of Houston, TX. Tell me about yourself and the organization. I’m a general internist by training. I have a computer science background and an MBA. I’ve been involved in the development of EMRs for about 15 years. I practiced at the…