Category: Analytics

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) with recommendations to continue moving the meaningful use (MU) program forward and maximize the number of attesters this year. The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has sent a letter to the Centers…

A lack of physician engagement is one of the biggest challenges for electronic health record governance efforts, according to a HIMSS Analytics study published this week. read more …read more    

Analytics can help improve outcomes in healthcare, and capturing data through EHRs is a vital step in the process By Andy Tippet, healthcare practice lead – Americas, Zebra Technologies …read more    

0 ACC 2014 is now history! Washington, D.C. weather was perfect for a conference – it rained the entire weekend! Prior to the meeting I speculated about what might be new. In a nutshell, it was a fitting venue in Washington, D.C. as cardiology seems to be awakening to the world of meaningful use The…

HIMSS Analytics recognized 21 University of Iowa Health Care clinics with its Stage 7 Ambulatory Award. The award represents University of Iowa Health Care’s attainment of the highest level on the Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model™ (EMRAM), which is used to track EMR progress at hospitals and health systems. Developed in 2011, the EMR Ambulatory…

After installing the Epic electronic health record system in its 30 hospitals and 800 ambulatory departments, Mercy Technology Services, the IT arm of the sixth-largest Catholic health system in the United States, is offering its Epic implementation expertise to the market. After installing the Epic electronic health record system in its 30 hospitals and 800…

The Chicago-based American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) has issued a statement saying that the use of the “copy and paste” functionality in electronic health records (EHRs) should only be permitted in the presence of strong technical and administrative controls. The Chicago-based American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) has issued a statement saying that the…

Redesigned medical alerts in electronic health records can reduce prescribing errors and provider workloads, and increase user satisfaction, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. read more …read more    

OB-GYN, PC is a busy practice with six physicians and two nurse practitioners, serving the Kalamazoo, MI community since the 1930s. After implementing two different EHR systems that didn’t completely meet its needs — the first in 2007 and the second in 2011 — OB-GYN, PC needed a solution that would solve its physicians’ problems,…