Category: EHR
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EHR and HIT News for June 25th
Today’s EHR and HIT news includes updates from eClinicalWorks as well as news from Sprint on the launch of a secure messaging solutions to Enable HIPAA Compliance. Finally, there is customer acquisition news from simplifyMD. eClinicalWorks Signs 1,000 for Revenue Cycle Management eClinicalWorks has announced that they have signed 1,000 providers to their Revenue Cycle…
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athenaClinicals Receives 2014 ONC HIT Certification
athenahealth has announced that athenaClinicals® (13.6), its cloud-based EHR service, is compliant with the ONC 2014 Edition Standards & Certification Criteria and was certified as a Complete EHR on June 21st, 2013 by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology. The ONC 2014 Edition criteria support both Stage 1 and 2 Meaningful Use measures required…
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The Path to Healthcare Interoperability Standards
I’ve been thinking a lot about the issues associated with healthcare interoperability. One of the biggest excuses/problems out there is the idea of interoperability standards. Healthcare certainly has plenty of interoperability standards, but adoption and implementation of the actual standards has been the major issue. I do think that meaningful use and EHR certification is…
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HCS INTERACTANT Receives ONC HIT Certification
Health Care Software has announced today that INTERACTANT v6.9 is compliant with the ONC 2011 Edition criteria and was certified as an EHR Module on June 3, 2013, by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology. The ONC 2011 Edition criteria support the Stage 1 Meaningful Use measures required to qualify eligible providers and hospitals…
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Morning Headlines 6/24/13
Experts tout Blue Button as enabling information exchange between medical provider and patient The Pittsburg Post Gazette covers the federal government’s Blue Button initiative, calling for its expansion into the private sector and citing it as a key concept to moving forward in an EHR-enabled healthcare system. Creative Skills For Life – Creative England Competition…
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Kentucky providers happy with their REC
Providers in Kentucy generally are satisfied with the performance of their regional extension centers, according to a recent statewide survey of participants in the Bluegrass State. read more Source: Kentucky providers happy with their REC
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Partners sends mobile data to EMR
In what may be one of the first integrations of its kind in the country, providers in the Boston-based Partners HealthCare system can now view patient data collected from mobile devices on their electronic medical record platform. The population of mobile health monitoring data, including vital signs such as blood pressure, weight and blood glucose,…
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Nurses want delay on EHR go-live, cite lack of training
Registered nurses at Affinity Medical Center–a 266-bed facility in Massillon, Ohio–are asking hospital officials to delay the go-live of an electronic medical record system until the hospital agrees to proceed in a “safe” manner with the nurses. According to an announcement from National Nurses United, the RNs–represented by affiliate National Nurses Organizing Committee (NNOC) in…
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Mostashari: ICD-10, Meaningful Use can be synergistic
Contrary to what many in the health IT industry think, National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari said he does not see the transition to ICD-10 as disruptive to the Meaningful Use process. read more …read more Source: Mostashari: ICD-10, Meaningful Use can be synergistic
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HIEs and Patient Engagement – Why and Why Now?
The following is a guest post by Jeff Donnell, President of NoMoreClipboard. Health information exchanges have become quite adept at moving medical data from provider to provider on behalf of patients, but making that data available to those same patients has rarely been attempted – until recently. Not including patients at the HIE exchange table…