Tag: ehr
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Nurses: New EHR system putting patients at risk
Sutter Corporation's launch of a new electronic health record system at its East Bay hospitals in the San Francisco Bay Area is causing numerous problems and putting patients at risk, according to the California Nurses Association. read more Source: Nurses: New EHR system putting patients at risk
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Inside the Intel skoool™ Healthcare Education Platform
Watch this overview to learn why Intel created the skoool™ Healthcare Education Platform to bring information and training to 1 million healthcare workers in… Video Rating: 5 / 5
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Lifting the Cloud of Secrecy over Healthcare Prices
The mystery regarding America’s high healthcare prices is increasingly becoming public knowledge. It’s not just the CMS releasing hospital outpatient data; it’s organizations like Fair Health and a database that has information on 16 billion billed medical and dental services. Forget the snake—this is the year of transparency. Secret societies. Price-fixing. A nation’s healthcare system…
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Senate hearing: EHRs still falling short
Developing an effective framework for driving healthcare quality improvements proves a multifaceted, complex endeavor, and although EHR systems can play a positive role in the task, much of the technology still misses the mark. This was just one of several concerns put before the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance Wednesday. read more
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OneHealth Solutions signs strategic alliance with New Directions Behavioral Health
OneHealth Solutions, Inc., the leading behavior change platform company improving health outcomes and the cost of care for patients, providers, payers and employers, has entered into a strategic alliance with New Directions Behavioral Health, one of the fastest growing behavioral health care companies in the nation, to expand services into eHealth, mHealth and social networking…
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LodgeNet Healthcare becomes SONIFI HEALTH Solutions
LodgeNet Healthcare, the leading provider of integrated patient engagement solutions, announced today that post-acquisition, it has been rebranded as SONIFI HEALTH Solutions.
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Better Health Info, Better Health: Announcing ONC’s Certified HIT Mark
More and more Americans across the country are relying on their doctors and hospitals to provide them with top-quality health care. Health information technology (HIT) makes it possible for health care providers to better manage patient care with secure sharing of health information through technology like electronic health records (EHRs), helping to improve patient care.…
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HIMSS resource to create a ‘common vocabulary’ for health IT
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society today unveiled a resource aimed at helping providers and payers evaluate the impact of their technology decisions. read more Source: HIMSS resource to create a 'common vocabulary' for health IT
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BREAKING NEWS: Nine ACOs to Leave the Pioneer Program
Seven Pioneer accountable care organizations (ACOs) that did not produce savings in the first year of the Pioneer program will switch to another ACO model—the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP)—and two others in the Pioneer program will abandon Medicare accountable care models altogether, according to an announcement from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services…
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SVForum’s Big Data Analytics Conference 2013: Keynote – Big Data Analysis
Keynote: Big Data Analytics – Analysis & The Future Mike Gualtieri, Forrester According to IDC, the big data market will grow from .2 billion in 2010 to … Video Rating: 0 / 5