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  • Surescripts: Health data transactions outnumber American Express, PayPal

    Surescripts: Health data transactions outnumber American Express, PayPal

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    Electronic prescribing continues to gain ground in the U.S., with Surescripts processing 6.5 billion healthcare data transactions in 2014, according to its 2014 progress report. read more …read more Source:: http://www.fierceemr.com/story/surescripts-health-data-transactions-outnumber-american-express-paypal/2015-05-19?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss       

  • Emerging Health Apps Pose Major Security Risk

    Emerging Health Apps Pose Major Security Risk

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    As new technologies like fitness bands, telemedicine and smartphone apps have become more important to healthcare, the issue of how to protect the privacy of the data they generate has become more important, too. After all, all of these devices use the public Internet to broadcast data, at least at some point in the transmission. Typically, telemedicine…

  • Monday Morning Update 5/18/15

    Monday Morning Update 5/18/15

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    Top News The AMA writes a letter to Rep. Ted Poe to support his bill that would delay ICD-10. The AMA says ICD-10 should be skipped in favor of ICD-11, the first draft of which isn’t due until 2017, explaining that EHR implementation work and introduction of new payment models make 2015 a bad time…

  • Patient-centered medical homes don't maximize HIT to coordinate care

    Patient-centered medical homes don't maximize HIT to coordinate care

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    Physicians practicing in patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs) still depend on non-health IT methods of coordinating care, and their use of electronic health records for supporting coordinated care were not aligned with their priorities, according to a new study from the Annals of Family Medicine. read more …read more Source:: http://www.fierceemr.com/story/patient-centered-medical-homes-dont-maximize-hit-coordinate-care/2015-05-12?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss       

  • Morning Headlines 5/12/15

    Morning Headlines 5/12/15

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    Core Functionality in Pediatric Electronic Health Records AHRQ publishes a report calling for pediatric-specific functionality to be included in EHRs, including more advanced medication ordering tools, immunization tracking systems, and data sharing between family member records. IBM’s Watson to guide cancer therapies at 14 centers 14 cancer institutes across the US and Canada will use…

  • CDC: Meaningful Use eCQMs 'invaluable' for tracking public health

    CDC: Meaningful Use eCQMs 'invaluable' for tracking public health

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    Electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs) from electronic health records will be “invaluable” for monitoring clinical conditions, according to a new Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. read more …read more Source:: http://www.fierceemr.com/story/cdc-meaningful-use-ecqms-invaluable-tracking-public-health/2015-05-06?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss       

  • Is the Doctor In? Network Design Considerations in Evolving Healthcare Systems

    Is the Doctor In? Network Design Considerations in Evolving Healthcare Systems

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    The following is a guest post from Dr. Cahit Jay Akin Today’s healthcare systems are a far cry from the systems your mother new. Today, healthcare is largely (an increasingly) data-driven, and a patient’s full medical history is fully contained within an Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and Electronic Healthcare Record (EHR). And those records need to…

  • Lawmakers form working group to find ways to improve EHRs

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    A new bipartisan committee’s working group will gather on Capitol Hill throughout the coming months to find ways to improve electronic health records, according to Senate health committee chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and ranking member Patty Murray (D-Wash.). read more …read more Source:: http://www.fierceemr.com/story/lawmakers-form-working-group-find-ways-improve-ehrs/2015-04-30?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss       

  • Morning Headlines 4/29/15

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    Vanderbilt to replace clinical IT systems Vanderbilt University Medical Center announces that it will replace its current McKesson Horizon system with either Epic or Cerner. CareCloud announces new CEO, $15M in funding Cloud-based ambulatory EHR vendor CareCloud replaces its CEO Albert Santalo and announces that it has raised a fresh $15 million in VC funding,…

  • Morning Headlines 4/27/15

    Morning Headlines 4/27/15

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    Health and Human Services Fiscal Year 2016 Budget HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell faces tough questions from Sen. Lamar Alexander (R – TN) over the EHR Incentive program which Alexander says is driving physician dissatisfaction. Scientists are skeptical about the secret blood test that has made Elizabeth Holmes a billionaire Business Insider covers Silicon Valley-based lab…