Category: Analytics

0 A recent white paper written by the JASON initiative criticized the current lack of interoperability in the healthcare industry, arguing that patients getting access to their information is still far too challenging. Are the paper’s concerns valid? Last November, a white paper written by the JASON initiative within the McLean, Va.-based Mitre Corp., and…

“Big Data” generated from electronic medical records holds promise to transform healthcare and benefit patients, but a host of challenges threatens to derail the effort to lower costs, improve quality, and improve health care, according to a report published today by The Network for Excellence in Health Innovation (NEHI). “Big Data” generated from electronic medical…

The Massachusetts House has passed legislation modifying existing state requirements that physicians demonstrate proficiency in electronic health records (EHRs) at the level of meaningful use as a condition of licensure. The Massachusetts House has passed legislation modifying existing state requirements that physicians demonstrate proficiency in electronic health records (EHRs) at the level of meaningful use…

Practice Fusion has launched Insight, the nation’s largest real-time healthcare database. Physicians, researchers and analysts can use Insight to access unique analysis sourced from a de-identified subset of more than 81 million patient records. Insight users can explore health and pharmaceutical market trends, including diagnoses across patient populations, all in real-time. Pretty useful stuff. Insight,…

Industry stakeholders are pleased with the government’s proposed rule that would ease reporting requirements for meaningful use, saying it offers the flexibility providers and hospitals need to stay in the program. Industry stakeholders are pleased with the government’s proposed rule that would ease reporting requirements for meaningful use, saying it offers the flexibility providers and…

athenahealth, Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based services for electronic health record (EHR), practice management, and care coordination, and Henry Schein Medical, the U.S. Medical business of Henry Schein, Inc., the world’s largest provider of health care products and services to office-based dental, animal health and medical practitioners, today announced a strategic agreement. …read more    

Healthcare providers and IT vendors just got a dose of welcome relief from the increasingly controversial certification pieces of meaningful use in the form of a proposed rule the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT jointly circulated on Tuesday. read more …read more    

Moments after CHIME had released an analysis of an important announcement from CMS for its members, CHIME president and CEO Russ Branzell spoke first to HCI’s Mark Hagland to share his perspectives on the announcement and its broader context Moments after releasing an analysis of an important announcement from the federal Centers for Medicare and…

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) are proposing a rule that would aim to provide providers more flexibility for meaningful use reporting in 2014. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health…

The University of Leeds will use big data to help match patients with certain types of blood cancers to the best treatments. read more …read more