Patty Thierry Sheridan has been elected president-elect of the Chicago-based American Health Information Management Association.
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28Jul
Tags: Health
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28Jul
Will tens of billions of dollars in forthcoming incentive payments for meaningful use of electronic health records meet the HITECH Act’s goal of improving care quality and patient outcomes while bringing efficiencies to the health care industry?
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27Jul
PHR vendor MediConnect Global will use content from Harvard Health Publications.
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27Jul
EHR vendor SRS will integrate its physician documentation software with a Web-based practice management and scheduling system from Ingenix.
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26Jul
Insurer HealthNet Inc. will implement a suite of business intelligence software from MedeAnalytics Inc., Emeryville, Calif.
Tags: Health
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26Jul
For Chuck Christian, CIO at Good Samaritan Hospital, Vincennes, Ind., end-point security is a constant and ongoing challenge.
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23Jul
The Health Industry Group Purchasing Association and the Association for Healthcare Resource and Materials Management are asking federal officials to consider adoption of two identification standards used in the health care supply chain.
Tags: EHR, Health, Health Care
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23Jul
A Miami resident has pleaded guilty to stealing patient records from Jackson Memorial Hospital and selling them to personal injury attorneys, the Miami Herald reports.
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22Jul
The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology, as expected, has submitted to federal officials its application to become an Authorized Testing and Certification Body under the temporary electronic health records certification program.
Tags: Electronic Health Record, Health
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22Jul
Ingenix, the Eden Prairie, Minn.-based information technology subsidiary of health insurer UnitedHealth Group, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Picis Inc., which sells clinical and financial information systems for high-acuity areas of hospitals. Terms of the acquisition, expected to close in the third quarter, were not disclosed.
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21Jul
A new report based on interviews with 225 home care agencies finds many agencies prefer information systems from home care-focused vendors.
Tags: Health
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21Jul
MEDHOST Inc., a, Addison, Texas-based vendor of emergency department information systems, has introduced new software that enables hospitals to post current ED wait times on their Web sites.
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21Jul
St. Luke’s Health System in Idaho has notified thousands of employees after a contracted human resources firm lost a server back-up tape holding sensitive non-medical information, the Idaho Statesman newspaper reports.
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20Jul
A bipartisan group of 52 U.S. senators has sent a letter to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Donald Berwick, M.D., asking for more consideration before a coding-related 2.9 percent cut to Medicare hospital payments is implemented in fiscal year 2011.
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20Jul
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services will implement a data warehouse to collect and analyze health care data on 1.8 million beneficiaries.
Tags: Health, Health Care
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19Jul
The Federal Communications Commission has approved a program to invest up to $400 million annually to expand broadband connectivity for telemedicine and other medical programs in rural communities.
Tags: Health
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19Jul
Epocrates Inc., a vendor of software to access drug reference information via mobile computing devices, has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission to sell up to $75 million in a public offering of stock.
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16Jul
The final meaningful use rule has many changes and clarifications in its 864 pages, testimony to the degree to which federal officials listened to stakeholders following publication of the proposed rule. But one major component–the amount of available incentive money–remains the same.
Tags: Health
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16Jul
Trace Devanny on July 16 is wrapping up his tenure as president of provider software vendor Cerner Corp. to become CEO at The TriZetto Group Inc., which sells software systems to health insurers. He starts on July 19.
Tags: Health
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16Jul
Sharp Healthcare in San Diego will implement the Community Record application of Allscripts to provide a unified patient record to clinicians in hospitals and affiliated practices.
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