Tag: association
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Alison Bloch, m-Health Advisor at GSM Association, Talks About m-Health Alliance, Mobile, & SOCAP09
http://envisionGood.tv How is mobile being used in emerging markets to improve the lives of people living on less than /day? In what innovative ways are he… Video Rating: 5 / 5
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Health info of transgender patients warrants ‘special attention’
Clinicians who deal with the unique needs of transgender patients should use electronic health records differently than they do for non-transgendered patients, according to a recent perspective piece by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) EHR Workgroup published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association . read more
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EHR and HIT News for April 22nd
Today’s EHR and HIT News includes an update from Modernizing Medicine , on their membership into the HIMSS EHR Association. Additionally, athenahealth has announced that they’ll be participating in the Baird 2013 Growth Stock Conference next month in Chicago. There is also partnership news from Nightingale Preventive Care and HealthFusion where Nightingale medical providers will…
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EHR Association Speaks Out Against Vendor Fee in Budget
The Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society’s (HIMSS) EHR Association, a non-profit trade group, has expressed its discontent with a portion of the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) 2014 Budget that would implement a user fee for vendors that would get their products certified Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) Health IT Certification…
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ONC proposes EHR vendor fee
Citing the crush of an increasing workload and dwindling government funding, the Office of the National Coordinator has proposed a health IT user fee that would be imposed on health IT vendors who certify their products through the ONC Health IT Certification Program. The HIMSS EHR Association opposes ONC’s proposal
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Telemedicine Coverage Dropped for Medicare Beneficiaries in 36 States and Territories
According to a press release from the American Telemedicine Association (ATA), Medicare beneficiaries in 97 counties, across 36 states and territories, will lose telemedicine benefits because of the updated federal delineations of Standards Metropolitan Statistical Areas (SMSAs). The SMSAs are federal urban/rural categorizations which, the ATA says, revokes the option for Medicare recipients to receive…
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EHRs can ID phenotypes for genetic research
Electronic health records can be helpful tools for identifying phenotypes for genetic and other research, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Informatics Association .
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AHIMA: Medicare Recovery Audit Legislation is Needed
The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) has announced its support for the Medicare Audit Improvement Act of 2013, which it says would address critical data related operational problems to the Medicare Recovery Audit program. The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) has announced its support for the Medicare Audit Improvement Act of 2013, which…
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Are cloud-based record banks superior to HIEs for data sharing?
Health information exchanges, as currently constructed, are an “inefficient” means of sharing healthcare data due to interoperability issues, according to a commentary published recently in the Journal of the American Medical Association . read more