Category: Analytics

QPID Health, a leader in clinical reasoning software, today announced it has been included in the “Cool Vendors” for Healthcare Providers report published by Gartner, Inc on April 3, 2015. QPID’s innovative solutions help hospitals and medical groups optimize their investments in the information held within electronic health records to help improve patient outcomes and…

0 Reports based on electronic health record data that is two months old is of limited value to nurses trying to manage pain in a cardiac unit. But a dashboard view of current patients, with the patients who have reported a pain level greater than 7 in red, provides an actionable snapshot to frontline managers…

0 NYU Langone Medical Center has been working to build a private health information exchange to link 200 practices and 1,900 clinicians using 26 different EHRs as the state and country work toward building larger exchanges. Frat Iqbal, senior manager of information management at New York University’s Langone Medical Center, led off his presentation at…

At a Senate hearing this week Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) , Chairman of the Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, talked about improving electronic health records (EHRs) with Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Sylvia Mathews Burwell. At a Senate hearing this week Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) , Chairman of the Senate…

At HIMSS15, in front of an inquisitive audience at the McCormick Place Convention Center on April 15, Ricky Bloomfield M.D., director, mobile technology strategy at Duke Medicine, gave an overview of how Duke is using Apple’s HealthKit to get patient-generated data into the EHR. The recent meaningful use Stage 3 proposal that calls for more…

Electronic health records can be used as a source to validate a patient’s health insurance coverage, which can help patients maintain insurance benefits and enjoy more continuity of care, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. read more …read more Source:: http://www.fierceemr.com/story/ehrs-help-patients-track-retain-health-insurance-coverage/2015-04-21?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss       

Last week during the annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) published a revised version of its “Guide to Privacy and Security of Electronic Health Information.” Last week during the annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference, the Office of the…

IBM Creates Watson Health to Analyze Medical Data IBM’s Watson team announces Watson Health, a partnership with Apple, Johnson & Johnson, and Medtronic as well as the acquisitions of Explorys, a data analytics startup and Cleveland Clinic spinoff focused on spotting patterns in diseases, and Phytel, a software vendor focused on reducing readmissions. Surescripts Advances…

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) released a report this week to Congress on health information blocking. The report’s authors and researchers detailed several examples of electronic health record (EHR) developers and health systems blocking health information sharing between each other. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC)…

Cleveland Clinic Innovations launches digital health care products e-commerce company Cleveland Clinic’s business development unit has launched a new company called ADEO that will resell digital health products to hospitals, practices, and directly to consumers. Data Analytics Update: Health IT Policy Committee Meeting ONC publishes new MU numbers during its April 7 policy committee meeting,…