Tag: Health IT

  • Morning Headlines 9/20/13

    Morning Headlines 9/20/13

    Epic Systems shows off its new Deep Space auditorium as customers gather for annual meeting Epic unveils its 11,000 person, five-story, underground auditorium named Deep Space at this years Epic UGM conference. The conference drew more than 15,000 attendees. $1 billion e-health system rejected by doctors as ‘shambolic’ Australia’s $1 billion patient-centered health records system…

  • AMS SPHER HIPAA Compliance Solution now available to Amerinet’s members

    AMS SPHER HIPAA Compliance Solution now available to Amerinet’s members

    All Medical Solutions, the Healthcare division of Fusion Systems North America, announced today Amerinet, Inc., a leading national healthcare solutions organization, has signed a new agreement that will make the AMS SPHER™ HIPAA Compliance Solution available to its members. From: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20130919/AMS-SPHER-HIPAA-Compliance-Solution-now-available-to-Amerinets-members.aspx

  • Goin’ Mobile: Privacy and Security  Implications of the mHealth Revolution

    Goin’ Mobile: Privacy and Security Implications of the mHealth Revolution

    Timothy Zevnik, CIPP/US, CIPP/G of Molina Healthcare made this presentation at the 3rd Annual HIMSS SoCal Privacy and Security Forum event on November 1. 201…

  • Oscar McMaster EMR Demonstration

    Oscar McMaster EMR Demonstration

    Demonstration of the Oscar McMaster EMR system hosted on http://oscarhost.ca. Covers most functions of the EMR including scheduling, adding patients, chartin… Please Like/Fav if you Enjoyed the Video! Enjoy some Battlefield 3 Gameplay, Any question or concerns feel free to leave a comment or contact me via twitter …

  • Is Electronic Prescribing of Controlled Substances Around the Corner?

    Is Electronic Prescribing of Controlled Substances Around the Corner?

    An area ripe with security and technical barriers, ePrescribing of controlled substances (EPCS) is still very much a work in progress for most healthcare organizations. In this Q&A, HCI Associate Editor Gabriel Perna speaks with Todd Richardson CIO of Aspirus Health in Wausau, Wisc., an organization that has its eyes on EPCS and is beginning…

  • 5 elements to achieving health IT interoperability

    5 elements to achieving health IT interoperability

    The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has released what it calls a path to achieving interoperability among different electronic health record (EHR) systems. In a blog post… read more Source: 5 elements to achieving health IT interoperability

  • HIMSS Introduces Health Story Project

    HIMSS Introduces Health Story Project

    The Health Story Project, an alliance that has supported the development of standards for a comprehensive electronic health record (EHR) that can be shared, has become part of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), according to a recent announcement at the National Health IT Week HIMSS Policy Summit press conference. The Health Story…

  • A better approach to clinical decision support?

    A better approach to clinical decision support?

    Differential diagnostic decision support tools generally are built to identify a single correct diagnosis, while focusing instead on the value of information they provide might better achieve the goals of shared-decision making to improve care and cut costs, according to a BMC Medical Informatics & Decision Making article. read more Source: A better approach to…

  • Most hospitals have tools to meet Meaningful Use Stage 2 now

    Most hospitals have tools to meet Meaningful Use Stage 2 now

    More than two-thirds of U.S. hospitals have bought technology from a vendor certified to the 2014 Edition certification criteria, according to a newly published report from HIMSS Analytics, meaning that many hospitals already have the tools they need to meet Meaningful Use Stage 2 at their disposal. read more Source: Most hospitals have tools to…

  • Health IT systems hinder care integration

    Health IT systems hinder care integration

    Health IT is hindering, rather than enabling, integration of care across multiple settings and efforts to improve healthcare value, two healthcare specialists argue in a Harvard Business Review blog post. read more Source: Health IT systems hinder care integration