Category: Analytics

The following is a guest blog post by Art Gross, Founder of HIPAA Secure Now! It’s one thing to have a laptop stolen with 8,000 patient records or for a disgruntled doctor to grab his patients’ records and start his own practice. It’s another when the Cosa Nostra steals that information, siphons money from the…

CareCloud, the leading provider of cloud-based practice management, electronic health records, and medical billing software and services, today announced that it has received a $25.5 million debt financing commitment from Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc., the leading specialty finance company focused on providing senior secured loans to venture capital-backed companies in technology-related markets, including technology,…

Serving a multi-ethnic patient population that speaks six different languages – with five different alphabets! – is just one of the Stage 2 meaningful use challenges for New York Hospital Queens. [See also: Patient portal mandate triggers anxiety] read more …read more    

WebPT, the leading web-based electronic medical record (EMR) solution for rehabilitation therapists, today announced it has received a significant investment from Battery Ventures. WebPT intends to use the new capital to accelerate growth. …read more    

As healthcare moves into a value-based world, opportunities will arise for patient-generated data to be worked into clinicians’ workflows. The Advisory Board Company’s Jay Nagy discusses how this will impact the industry going forward. In hospitals and physician practices across the country, the implementation of electronic health records (EHRs), computerized physician order entry (CPOE), and…

Patient safety issues continue to persist long after the go-live of an electronic health record (EHR) system, a recent study found. The majority of problems, researchers found, were related to the EHR technology itself. Patient safety issues continue to persist long after the go-live of an electronic health record (EHR) system, a recent study found.…

Federal incentives such as meaningful use and programs like the . Having a “second pair of eyes” on the medical record can help improve the quality of the information that providers ultimately use to make clinical decisions. Patients, after all, know the most about their health and want to make sure their doctors have the…

Electronic health records create a rife of patient safety problems that linger well after implementation, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. read more …read more    

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is embracing cloud computing as part of its effort to build powerful tools to collect, store and analyze massive amounts of data. read more …read more    

A new issue brief titled, “Will Health IT Investment Deliver its Promised Benefits?” is now available from Health Fidelity, a healthcare big data analytics company. The brief examines how the U.S. healthcare information technology investment is fairing in areas such as technology adoption and improvements in the healthcare system. Industry experts and policymakers have long…