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Earlier this year, Healthcare IT News profiled several small EHR vendors that, in a market dominated by Epics and Cerners, were using their modest sizes to their advantage.
If you're a hospital CIO, you're probably spending much of your time thinking about EHRs and CPOE and HIE. But there are other systems that are also important – such as HVAC.
In what its CEO bills as a development that "could finally drive global usage and adoption" of the technology, drchrono, which makes electronic health records for iPads, received meaningful use certification as an ambulatory EHR earlier this summer.
Health insurer Highmark, one of the largest Blue plans in the nation, intends to help physicians get on board with electronic health records and practice management tools needed for the docs to qualify for the government’s meaningful use incentives.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has fully certified the Massachusetts’ Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS). The accreditation ensures the state will receive maximum federal funding for the system’s implementation and ongoing operation.
The Board of Directors of the American Health Information Management Association has appointed Lynne Thomas Gordon as its new CEO. She will assume the post on Sept. 29, days before the launch of the organization's annual conference, which begins Oct. 2 in Salt Lake City.
Patient data lost while in the hands of a business associate becomes "extraordinarily" difficult to track, says one expert, who identified data-centric protection as a way to safeguard information like that recently exposed at Stanford Hospital and Clinics.
“One patient, one record,” the goal of Maine’s leading healthcare system MaineHealth, in implementing a system-wide electronic health record, is nearly half way there when it comes to its physician practices.
The proliferation of mobile devices in healthcare has given administrators a vexing problem with no easy answer: Should a health system dictate what smartphones and tablets its employees use or allow them to use their own personal devices?
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and Nuance Communications have partnered to develop natural language processing solutions to alter the way that clinical data is captured and processed. The two are looking to extend the presence and functionality of clinical language understanding (CLU)-enabled technologies.