Category: EHR
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Is Your EHR Making You Less Efficient?
The following is a guest post by Michael Gleeson, Senior VP of Product Strategy for Arcadia Solutions. Michael Gleeson Electronic Health Records (EHRs) have a reputation for slowing down practices and increasing time, cost and overall productivity of a physician’s office or hospital system.
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VA leaders: ‘Next generation’ EHRs need enhanced usability
The “next generation” of electronic health record systems need to make more than “incremental” changes and move beyond the concept of serving as computerized paper charts, according to a new study of leaders in the Department of Veterans Affairs, published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association .
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New licensing agreement to promote discovery in health IT and improve economic Growth
The Regenstrief Institute Inc., an international leader in electronic medical records and health information exchange research, development and operations, is licensing its Indiana Network for Patient Care and DOCS4DOCS clinical results delivery software to a subsidiary of the Indiana Health Information Exchange. This licensing agreement represents the single most significant transfer of discovery out of…
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EHR and HIT News for April 20th
Today’s EHR and HIT news includes two customer acquisition articles. The first, is from Halfpenny Technologies on their selection by Orange Accountable Care. The second article, from HealthMEDX on their selection by Riverside Health Systems. Orange Accountable Care Partners with Halfpenny Technologies to help integrate their Care Community Halfpenny Technologies was selected by Orange Accountable…
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Providers ‘struggling’ to document Meaningful Use attestation
Preliminary results from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Meaningful Use audits indicate that providers are having a lot of trouble substantiating what they’ve attested to, according to Robert Anthony, deputy director of the Health IT Initiatives Group at CMS’ Office of e-Health Standards and Services. read more
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EMR Market Nearly $21 Billion in 2012
Driven by hospital IT upgrades and the lure of government incentives, the market for electronic medical records exceeded 20 billion dollars in 2012, according to Kalorama Information. The healthcare market research publisher says vendors should see robust sales this year and next as vendors try to avoid U.S.
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CHIME urges feds to apply existing policies to HIE acceleration
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives believes that the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services should extend processes developed under the eRx and Electronic Health Record Incentive Payment programs to accelerate and improve health information exchange and interoperability among providers. read more
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British Doctors Fear Repercussions Of Sharing EMR Data With Patients
Like their American counterparts, British doctors fear giving patients too much access to their electronic health records, according to a new survey. The survey was conducted by a non-profit group called the Medical Protection Society, which provides professional indemnity coverage to doctors, dentists and health professionals globally. Researchers there found that 75 percent of patients responding…
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Morning Headlines 4/19/13
Roper will buy Managed Healthcare for $1 billion Medical and industrial equipment maker Roper Industries will buy Florham Park, NJ-based Managed Healthcare Associates for $1 billion in cash. Shares of Roper picked up 86 cents to $121.40 in aftermarket trading following the announcement of the deal.
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Using Project Management to Turn the Key on CPOE Success
While more hospitals are implementing CPOE systems, adoption rates still could be higher. HCI Assistant Editor Rajiv Leventhal talks with UMC Health System CIO Bill Eubanks about the transition to CPOE, effective strategies that made it happen, and challenges the organization faced along the way. According to research from the San Jose, Calif.-based Global Industry…