Home healthcare agencies and hospitals exchange very little clinical data online, according to a new report on home healthcare IT from KLAS, a research firm based in Orem, Utah. And that misstep can be quite expensive. Because of new Medicare rules penalizing them for readmissions, hospitals are...
Read More →NextGen Healthcare Information Systems Inc., a provider of healthcare information systems and connectivity, is partnering with Dell to cloud-based solutions to a wide range of healthcare providers and medical practices, community hospitals and physicians. Dell will market, sell and support a ran...
Read More →Liaison Technologies, a global provider of cloud-based integration and data management services and solutions, announced today that it is joining with other U.S. companies in celebrating National Health Information Technology (NHIT) Week, September 12-16, which mar...
Read More →Opportunities for healthcare entrepreneurs to gather together, swap shop talk, and — especially — talk to innovators in the field who have succeeded in building great startup businesses — are few and far between. But on October 27, 2011, the National eHealth Innovation Series is going t...
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An Electronic Medical Record (EMR) is the digital version of paper-based medical record. It is owned by a single healthcare provider organization such as a hospital or physician and contains detailed information of the care provided at every encounter of the provider. EMR contains the data captur...
Read More →A new federally mandated medical coding system designed to better track diagnoses and treatments is requiring a massive overhaul of healthcare IT systems that some say will be nearly impossible to complete on time. Medical providers and insurance payers must move from the current ICD-9 coding system...
Read More →As hospitals and physician practices continue to progress to electronic health record systems, challenges have been created by the sheer volume and quality of raw data that goes into EHRs. Advanced software and interoperability are helping to balance different aspects of electronic data, such as...
Read More →If you’ve been following the US government’s efforts to modernize the nation’s healthcare information technology infrastructure, you might have noticed that current trends promise to create a flood of new opportunities for high-tech companies. Last week a study from Pricewat...
Read More →A new federally mandated medical coding system designed to better track diagnoses and treatments is affecting dozens of core applications for healthcare providers and insurance payers, and is requiring a massive overhaul of IT systems that some say is nearly impossible to complete on time. Medical p...
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Bulky patient charts holding countless pieces of information and handwritten physicians orders are becoming a thing of the past. Taking their place is the electronic medical record, which can transport patient information in real time with the click of a button. What are electronic medical records?...
Read More →Health care providers frozen out of federal funds allocated for digital conversion of medical records are fighting to improve their position within President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. New money for health information technology was budgeted by the Health Information Technology for E...
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