Category: EHR
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Mount Sinai Announces Personalized Medicine Platform
The Mount Sinai Medical Center, the New York City-based 1,171 bed tertiary- and quaternary-care teaching facility, has announced it's creating a new data management and analysis platform that will be able to communicate with the organization’s electronic health record. The platform, Mount Sinai says, will be able to give doctors real-time therapeutic and diagnostic guidance…
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ONC awards grants for HIE governance efforts
True to its promise, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has provided more support toward health information exchange development, partnering with DirectTrust and the interoperability workgroup of the New York eHealth Collaborative to foster HIE governance and operational development. read more
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HIT Policy Committee approves info exchange security recommendations
The health IT industry may have a better idea of how health information exchanges can protect patient data after ONC's Health IT Policy Committee approved several recommendations from its Privacy and Security Tiger Team last week. read more
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Email vs Text for Healthcare Communication
The idea of improving communication in healthcare is always a hot one. For fear of HIPAA and other factors, healthcare seems to lag behind when adopting the latest communication technologies. The most simple examples are email and text message. Both are simple and widely adopted communication technologies and most in healthcare are afraid to use…
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CMS offers tip sheet on MU, quality measures
As the Oct. 1 start date nears for meeting Stage 2 of the meaningful-use criteria for hospitals in the federal electronic health-record incentive program, the CMS has posted a one-page tip sheet for providers on the reporting of clinical quality…
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New pediatric EHR model will help vendors customize products
The American Academy of Pediatrics has weighed in on its involvement in a new model electronic health record system for pediatrics, outlining the steps it took to help the government create a format better suited to meet the needs of children. read more
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Wake Forest Baptist’s transition to EHR causes financial hit
Yet another provider is facing unanticipated struggles with electronic health record system adoption. Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center is blaming additional costs and lost revenue on the 2012 implementation of its Epic EHR.
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EHR Debates and The Growth of mHealth – Around Healthcare Scene
With the dissatisfaction that many have felt from EMR, providers and patients alike, outside healthcare companies are coming up with new ideas on how to help.
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Orion Health and Caradigm expand partnership to deliver integrated electronic health records, intelligence platform and applications
Extensible, end-to-end solution will help healthcare communities use data to gain insight and transform care
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Communication With Providers, Patient Alert Fatigue, and #HealthIT — #HITsm Chat Highlights
#HITsm T1: How do you WANT to communicate with your healthcare provider? How does it differ from what’s available? T1: When communicating with my provider, I want to get just the information I need without superfluous materials, in a timely fashion #HITsm — SHIFT Healthcare (@healthycomms) April 5, 2013 T1: I mostly just don’t want…