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By Mike Miliard | 11:51 am | October 26, 2011
Piedmont Healthcare has enlisted TeleHealth Services, which develops interactive patient engagement tools and healthcare-grade televisions, to implement customized patient-centered environment, designed to improve patient education and offer interactive communication.
By Diana Manos | 11:10 am | October 26, 2011
The University of Michigan Health System (UMHS) has signed an agreement to connect with the Great Lakes Health Information Exchange (GLHIE), officials announced on Tuesday.
By Eric Wicklund | 07:01 pm | October 25, 2011
Eric Dishman, the Intel executive and popular healthcare reform speaker, told members of the Medical Group Management Association that America needs to move away from centralized care and embrace a distributed model.
By Molly Merrill | 04:50 pm | October 25, 2011
The Front Porch Center for Technology Innovation and Wellbeing has received a grant for its Model eHealth Community for Aging project, which aims to leverage EHRs, mhealth and telehealth tools to support wellness needs for underserved older adults in Los Angeles' Koreatown.
By Molly Merrill | 12:39 pm | October 25, 2011
RelayHealth, McKesson's connectivity business, has been awarded a $50,000 prize as the winner of the VA's "Blue Button for All Americans" personal health record contest.
By Mike Miliard | 12:04 pm | October 25, 2011
IBM has launched a new technology designed to extract relevant clinical information from unstructured data. Based on the same natural language processing technology used in IBM's Watson, its new Content and Predictive Analytics for Healthcare is aimed at preventing patient readmissions.
By Diana Manos | 11:45 am | October 25, 2011
Physician groups are pleased with their initial take of the final accountable care organization (ACO) rule issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on Oct. 20.
By Eric Wicklund | 10:45 am | October 25, 2011
ONC Chief Farzad Mostashari, MD, speaking at the Medical Group Management Association's 2011 conference in Las Vegas, tried to appease worried physician leaders by telling them a good EHR will make the path easier to meaningful use, ACOs and other federal healthcare reform measures.
By Molly Merrill | 10:21 am | October 25, 2011
The larger a practice is -- the more physicians, exam rooms and patients it has -- the more likely it is to adopt electronic health records, according to a new report.
By Molly Merrill | 09:53 am | October 25, 2011
The Medical Group Management Association is calling on the Department of Health and Human Services to issue a HIPAA 5010 contingency plan, permitting health plans to adjudicate claims that may not have all the required data.