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New tool helps providers assess HIPAA risk
The free ONC tool will help health care organizations produce documentation that demonstrates they have considered security risks.
By Anne Zieger • March 31, 2014 -
AHIMA wants to set limits on EMR cut-and-paste
The trade group argues copy-and-paste functionality in EMRs creates risk for "inaccurate, fraudulent or unwieldy documentation."
By Anne Zieger • March 31, 2014 -
Trendline
Artificial intelligence
Amid mounting interest and investment in the space, it's clear AI’s applications in healthcare will only continue to grow.
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6% of hospitals don't use EMRs
Hundreds of hospitals—mostly smaller organizations—still haven't converted even their most basic services to EMRs.
By Anne Zieger • March 30, 2014 -
Survey: EMR adoption shoots up among single-physician practices
The survey found that EMR adoption rates grew overall—but the most dramatic increase occurred in single physician offices.
By Anne Zieger • March 25, 2014 -
Healthcare lags badly in leveraging mobile
70% of CIOs in all industries surveyed said they had some form of consumer mobile strategy; the figure for health care companies was much lower.
By Anne Zieger • March 25, 2014 -
Deep Dive
4 reasons we may see more hospitals suing IT vendors
With Cerner making payment of $106 million to settle a dispute with Trinity Healthy over faulty IT, Healthcare Dive takes a closer look at the emerging trend of hospitals suing IT vendors.
By Katie Bo Williams • March 24, 2014 -
EHR adoption varies widely from state to state
Leading states for EHR adoption include North Dakota at 83%; New Jersey lags behind at 21%.
By Anne Zieger • March 20, 2014 -
ONC aims to improve emergency data exchange
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT wants to offer a more accurate picture of a patient's medical history during emergencies, but there are challenges involved.
By Anne Zieger • March 20, 2014 -
Security, M&A among top hospital CIO concerns
Mergers, acquisitions and partnerships -- along with security issues -- are keeping hospital CIOs up at night.
By Anne Zieger • March 19, 2014 -
Patient monitoring tech market to reach $5.1B in six years
The US market for patient monitoring technology is shifting quickly out of hospitals to alternate care and home settings.
By Anne Zieger • March 19, 2014 -
Docs, nurses work on relationships in simulation game
Researchers have developed a videogame simulation designed to teach doctors and nurses how to work together in tense situations.
By Anne Zieger • March 17, 2014 -
Telehealth services market to grow rapidly
Telehealth services should grow 30.7% each year for the next five years, researchers say.
By Anne Zieger • March 17, 2014 -
Tech company helps providers prepare for cyber attacks
A new service has been launched in partnership with HHS to help healthcare providers better defend themselves against cyber attacks.
By Anne Zieger • March 13, 2014 -
HIEs cut hospitalizations, generate cost savings
A New York study showed a dramatic difference in the rate of admissions when an HIE system was used.
By Anne Zieger • March 13, 2014 -
Deep Dive
Out with the old: Health systems making big EMR changes
Healthcare Dive takes a closer look at why big health systems are making plans to dump their current EMRs.
By Anne Zieger • March 13, 2014 -
Researchers say ACA marketplaces increase patient data security risk
Health organizations face criminal attacks, employee negligence, unsecured mobile devices and dangers from business associates in addition to healthcare marketplace security holes.
By Anne Zieger • March 12, 2014 -
Fitch: ICD-10 could harm hospitals' credit
ICD-10 could potentially disrupt hospitals' revenue cycle process, Fitch Ratings reports.
By Anne Zieger • March 12, 2014 -
Global HIE market to reach $878 million in four years
High implementation costs, slow returns on investments and interoperability problems continue to slow global HIE market growth, but private HIE market to grow by 10%.
By Anne Zieger • March 11, 2014 -
Cerner to pay $106M settlement over defective software claims
The EMR giant settled a dispute over allegations from a North Dakota hospital that its financial software was defective.
By Anne Zieger • March 11, 2014 -
Virtual health consults will grow significantly
US households using videoconferencing for physician consults should hit 22.6 million in 2018.
By Anne Zieger • March 10, 2014 -
Rhode Island hospital launches real-time ED study of Google Glass
The hospital will test Google Glass's ability to transmit real-time images to remote medical specialists.
By Anne Zieger • March 10, 2014 -
Postop complications linked to readmissions
Identifying high-risk patients before complications occur may help hospitals to reduce costly rehospitalizations.
By Katie Bo Williams • March 6, 2014 -
Telemedicine group asks for more flexibility under Medicare
Group says there are "artificial barriers" to telehealth tech use in place.
By Anne Zieger • March 6, 2014 -
Study: Healthcare CEOs aware of but unprepared for IT trends
57% of the CEOs surveyed said they were concerned about the speed of IT advances.
By Anne Zieger • March 6, 2014 -
GAO will investigate Oregon, other state ACA exchanges
The Government Accountability Office will look into other state exchanges' operations as well.
By Anne Zieger • March 6, 2014
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