Category: Analytics
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ICSA awards 2014 ONC HIT certification to Acumen EHR system
Acumen Physician Solutions, a market leading EHR and practice management system for nephrology, announced today that its product Acumen EHR, Version 7.0 is compliant with the ONC 2014 Edition criteria and was certified as a Complete EHR. …read more
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Improving Patient-Centered Care With HL7 Infobuttons at Catholic Health Partners
Widespread use of clinical decision support resources continues to be hampered by complex integration with EHRs. At Catholic Health Partners, HL7 Infobuttons overcome this challenge by providing context-sensitive links from EHRs to knowledge sources. Health Level Seven (HL7), a not-for-profit, ANSI-accredited standards development organization with more than 2,300 members, is continually developing a framework and…
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Tablet-Based Mobile Carts Drive EHR Engagement
As health systems and eligible healthcare professionals transition from Stage 1 to Stage 2 Meaningful Use to meet the 2014 reporting deadline, they are often faced with having to find innovative solutions to satisfy the new objectives and reporting requirements. Some of the core objectives of Stage 2 specifically address engaging patients with their medical…
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CMS issues security risk analysis guidance
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released a security risk analysis tip sheet to help eligible providers conduct security risk analyses, required not only pursuant to HIPAA’s security rule, but also to meet both Stages 1 and 2 of Meaningful Use. read more …read more
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OCR officials: Electronic data the ‘most vulnerable’
All providers updating software to comply with the Meaningful Use program’s 2014 edition of certification, or upgrading for any other reason, should be conducting a security risk analysis to test for vulnerabilities that may compromise patients’ electronic data, according to Iliana Peters, a privacy specialist with the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office…
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HIMSS14’ Hot Topics Include Meaningful Use, ICD-10, HIE, Survey Indicates
Schwartz MSL, a PR firm with focuses in health IT, surveyed likely attendees of the HIMSS14 conference next year in Orlando and attempted to unfurl social media’s influence over the event. Schwartz MSL, a PR firm with focuses in health IT, surveyed likely attendees of the HIMSS14 conference next year in Orlando and attempted to…
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Healthcare analytics market growth to skyrocket
Federal mandates, technological advances, increased healthcare IT adoption and venture capital investments are among several drivers of the global healthcare analytics market, which is projected to be worth more than $21 billion by 2020 according to a new report from MarketsandMarkets. read more …read more
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Genetic analysis software could help pinpoint disease roots
Researchers at the University of Michigan School of Public Health have developed new software they said improves the process of genetic analysis. The research, outlined online this week in the journal Nature Genetics, holds the potential to improve disease root tracking. read more …read more
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Big data efforts in healthcare will require patience
The terms “Meaningful Use” and “ICD-10” got plenty of play this year, but another phrase tossed around quite a bit in health IT this year was “big data.” On the FierceHealthIT website alone, 26 posts in 2013 (not counting this one) contained the term “big data” in the headline. Here’s a roundup of some of…
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Predictive modeling can flag potential candidates for clinical trials
Predictive modeling can be effective in assessing the eligibility of patients for clinical trials, according to research published at BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. Translating… read more …read more