Tag: ehr
-
Hawaii hospitals agree on one HIE
Hawaii hospitals have agreed to share patient data in the online Health eNet system. read more Source: Hawaii hospitals agree on one HIE
-
The EMRs You Don’t Hear About
The best-known EMRs got that way because they target the masses. About a third of the country’s physicians focus on primary care, with the remainder fragmented across dozens of specialties and subspecialties. It’s easy to see, then, why the major EMRs are primary-care centric. For specialists, the solution is often to use a general EMR…
-
Forum addresses impediments to data-sharing to detect fraud
Data analytics offers the opportunity to sift through the mounds of information government agencies collect, but oversight entities and law enforcement are challenged in their efforts to use the data effectively to address fraud, waste and abuse. read more Source: Forum addresses impediments to data-sharing to detect fraud
-
Big data and cloud security – technologies explained
http://pixvid.me/SelfHealingCloud Enterprise CIO Forum’s community manager, John Dodge, examines MIT research and development of “self-healing” clouds. Curre… IBM has a long history as an innovation leader in information and analytics, dating back to the invention of the database as part of the Apollo space program… Video Rating: 5 / 5
-
Docs flock to cloud to save bottom line
Eighty-seven percent of all physician practices agree their billing and collections systems need upgrading, according to a new survey. The majority favor moving to a fully integrated practice management, EHR and medical software product, accessible through the cloud on any browser or device. read more Source: Docs flock to cloud to save bottom line
-
To Cart, Or Not To Cart?
For more than a decade, hospitals have used mobile computer carts or wall-mounts as “the access point” to the EMR. As technology and the products that support technology in the EMR movement continue to evolve at a rapid pace, the challenge continues to grow for selecting solutions that not only work for today’s use, but…
-
Cloud computing reduces HIPAA compliance risk in managing genomic data
There is no question that the resources required to process, analyze, and manage petabytes of genomic information represent a huge burden for even the largest academic research facility or healthcare institution. That burden becomes even greater when one factors in the need to handle these data in compliance with an alphabet soup of regulatory regimes:…
-
MobiHealthNews talks with George MacGinnis at the Mobile Healthcare Industry Summit in London
Mobile Healthcare Industry Summit: MobiHealthNews spoke with George MacGinnis, who leads the Assistive Technology Program (part of the NHS Connecting for Hea… Southeast Missouri Hospital announced a new partnership today with Healthagen® to promote its hospital, urgent care and physicians on iTriage® — a free, con…
-
Radiologists train military physicians to remove foreign bodies with ultrasound-guided techniques
William E. Shiels II, DO, chief of the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Department of Radiology and president of Children’s Radiological Institute, Inc., is leading a team of radiologists for the training of military physicians to remove shrapnel foreign bodies from warfighters with ultrasound-guided techniques that he originally developed, with subsequent improvements made by the full team…
-
Medicare news: When nursing home benefits run out; reforming doc pay fix more costly than repeal
News outlets examine what options nursing home patients have when their Medicare benefits run out and the latest challenge to reforming how doctors are paid by the program — the price tag. From: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20130904/Medicare-news-When-nursing-home-benefits-run-out3b-reforming-doc-pay-fix-more-costly-than-repeal.aspx