5 Challenges for Medical Practices Qualifying for meaningful use incentives and choosing the right electronic health record system are among the top 5 challenges medical practice managers are facing today, according to new research from the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), which repre...
Read More →As policy makers try to jumpstart health information technology in small physician practices, lessons from independent practice associations—networks of small medical practices—can offer guidance in overcoming barriers to HIT adoption and use, according to a new study by the Center for Study...
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The majority opinion by a 6th circuit panel Wednesday upholding Obama’s health care reform law is a victory for the administration on its face. But to understand just how big a victory it is, you have to read the concurring opinion by Circuit Judge Jeffrey Sutton. Sutton, a former clerk to Sup...
Read More →At the end of this year, Google Health will flatline. The service couldn’t encourage many people to import or analyze their health data, and experts say its untimely death is, in many ways, an extension of U.S. health-care providers’ failure to share data across institutions, or make it ...
Read More →In a recent keynote address at a UNCG-hosted conference, an official from the U.S. Health Information Technology Research Center noted there are 30,000 healthcare organizations in the U.S. planning or implementing a move to Electronic Health Record technology over the near term. And having the r...
Read More →Healthcare heavyweights Baptist Health System in Alabama and Henry Ford Health System in Michigan are piloting a new AT&T cloud-based imaging storage and retrieval system. The hospitals will be using the Medical Imaging and Information Management Service in different ways: Baptist wants an ea...
Read More →Health care information technology companies will benefit in the second half of this year from a growing wave of care providers looking to capitalize on government electronic health record incentives, according to a Morgan Keegan analyst. Analyst Jamie Stockton said the sector performed bette...
Read More →Together, the American Diabetes Association, the CDC and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology are developing a new health initiative to help increase the use of information technology for the prevention and management of diabetes. A 3-year capstone project...
Read More →Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/85e7a2/healthcare_informa) has announced the addition of Frost & Sullivan’s new report “Healthcare Information Technology Market in Southeast Asia” to their offering. This research service titled Healthcare Inform...
Read More →Accenture and Singapore’s Ministry of Health (MOH) Holdings have launched a national EHR system. The first phase of the national EHR implementation will provide a single health record for healthcare professionals across the continuum. As patients visit primary care clinics, acute and community...
Read More →The National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest medical library and a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has formally launched MedlinePlus Connect. This free service allows health organizations and health information technology (HIT) providers to link patient portals and e...
Read More →As part of the national healthcare reform mandate, accountable care organizations are slated to roll out next year. And though the proposed rules have yet to be finalized, nurses are trying to understand, and assert, their roles within these new entities. Accountable Care Organizations in princip...
Read More →The HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association (EHRA) is pleased that the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking isn’t overly prescriptive as to how entities must use health information technology. However, the organization wants the final rule to explicitly promote ...
Read More →Got EHR? Up to speed on HIT? Curious about where all this technology is heading? If you have questions about the current state of Health IT (health information technology) in Oregon, are already using an EHR (Electronic Health Record) or want to transition your practice to an EHR, you’ll want...
Read More →The Rule18® Email Encryption solution developed by SECNAP Network Security and named Best Product of 2011 in Mobile Solutions is now available to organizations and professionals in the healthcare industry to protect personal health information. Rule18 is fast becoming the gold standard for secu...
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