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One year after Cerner abandoned its EHR implementation project at Girard Medical Center, the two don't appear to be any closer to a settlement of their legal struggle.
Advocates and critics alike talk about finding the data to back up claims that telehealth can be successful. Officials at Humana and Intel-GE Care Innovations say they'll have those numbers shortly, thanks to a nationwide collaboration.
An agreement between Center for Connected Health and health management firm CHS Health Services will enable medical specialists from Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital to offer telehealth services to Fortune 500 companies nationwide.
The Health Information and Management Systems Society has named Honolulu-based Hawai'i Pacific Health winner of the 2012 Enterprise HIMSS Davies Award of Excellence. Hawai'i Pacific Health is a Stage 6 hospital in electronic health record adoption; a nonprofit healthcare system; and Hawaii's largest healthcare provider.
Minnesota achieved the highest rate of e-prescribing use in the nation during 2011 to capture the No. 1 ranking in Surescripts' 7th annual Safe-Rx Awards
Providence Health & Services, which employs more than 64,000 people in five states - Alaska, California, Montana, Oregon and Washington - will roll out speech recognition technology across the healthcare system to 8,000 clinicians in 27 hospitals and 250 clinics.
At National Health IT Week, HIMSS recognized Mary Wakefield, PhD, RN administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration for bridging the health services divide.
The first woman to become Iowa's House Majority Leader, Representative Linda Upmeyer, has drawn on her continuing experience as a cardiology nurse to propose health IT legislation, involving the local healthcare community, HIMSS Iowa Chapter and the state legislature.
By 2014, about 9 million Hispanics will be covered for the first time as a result of the Affordable Care Act. Based on their unique healthcare challenges and very high use of mobile technologies, mHealth offers tremendous potential to improve access, individual behaviors and patient outcomes.
The upfront investment, development charges and personnel costs associated with traditional electronic health record (EHR) implementations make clear that getting to Stage 1 Meaningful Use is only the beginning of the investment. Additional enhancements required for Stage 2, changes in the regulatory environment, even minor code fixes - all will dramatically increase the overall cost of an already expensive proprietary EHR system.