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Growing number of physician practices opting out of Meaningful Use
With incentives tailing off, and penalties minimal, growing numbers of physicians are deciding not to pursue Meaningful Use Stage 2.
By Anne Zieger • Dec. 23, 2013 -
Kaiser finally connects to Epic's EMR network
Connecting with Epic's "Care Everywhere" system allows providers who run Epic's EMR to share patient information.
By Anne Zieger • Dec. 19, 2013 -
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TrendlineInteroperability
Interoperability is a long term-challenge for the healthcare industry, but the Trump administration has big ambitions to improve data sharing and patient access — even though its plans so far have few details.
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Right staffing central to HIE success
The right staffing is critical to creating a successful HIE, according to the American Health Information Management Association.
By Anne Zieger • Dec. 18, 2013 -
Telehealth chronic disease self-management brings care to rural areas
Telemedicine helps bring care and education for chronic conditions to rural areas.
By Anne Zieger • Dec. 18, 2013 -
Deep DiveFour reasons why health IT networks won't bloom in 2014
Universal healthcare data access, across countries and institutions, is many years away.
By Anne Zieger • Dec. 16, 2013 -
Global telemedicine market set to explode
The global telemedicine market should expand at a compound annual growth rate of 18.5% through 2018, researchers predict.
By Anne Zieger • Dec. 16, 2013 -
Trinity Medical Center wins Cerner settlement
The settlement has forced Cerner to take a substantial charge against earnings for this quarter.
By Anne Zieger • Dec. 13, 2013 -
VA fixes VistA EMR security flaw
The flaw in the Department of Veteran Affairs' EMR allowed unauthorized users to execute thousands of database operations.
By Anne Zieger • Dec. 12, 2013 -
FCC to expand spectrum for 'mobile body area networks'
The FCC is planning to allocate spectrum for use in mobile body area networks, wireless systems that use wearable sensors to track patients' vital signs.
By Anne Zieger • Dec. 12, 2013 -
New service offers consumers claims monitoring
The new service monitors submission of claims to help consumers find fraudulent transactions.
By Anne Zieger • Dec. 12, 2013 -
EMR copy-and-paste may lead to fraud, errors
Most hospitals don't have policies in place regulating the copy-and-pasting of information into EMRs.
By Anne Zieger • Dec. 10, 2013 -
Patient-tracking startup HealthLoop attracts $10M in new investment
This will be a startup to watch in the health IT world.
By Brian Warmoth • Dec. 10, 2013 -
Epic hit with class-action lawsuit over overtime pay
The suit alleges that up to 1,000 former and present quality assurance should have earned overtime pay during a three-year period before the suit's filing.
By Anne Zieger • Dec. 9, 2013 -
HIPAA slows use of big data to enhance care
Despite growth in electronic health information, most data resides in silos, making it hard to use for quality improvement and cost savings.
By Anne Zieger • Dec. 6, 2013 -
Deep Dive
5 reasons why hospitals are avoiding iPads
Apple's iPad being used at many hospitals to streamline care and make life easier for clinicians—but it hasn't taken over healthcare just yet.
By Anne Zieger • Dec. 4, 2013 -
Signups on Healthcare.gov poised to surge
Sign-ups on the Healthcare.gov website quadrupled between October.
By Anne Zieger • Dec. 3, 2013 -
GE Healthcare launches cloud-based collaboration tool for imaging
The new tool will help care teams share information through on-demand medical imaging apps.
By Anne Zieger • Dec. 3, 2013 -
CPOE systems still difficult to use
It has taken a long time, but computerized physician order entry has gone mainstream.
By Anne Zieger • Dec. 3, 2013 -
34 Chicago-area hospitals to launch HIE
The hospitals expect to launch the network, which is using federally-developed Direct technology, early next year.
By Anne Zieger • Dec. 2, 2013 -
Bill seeks to integrate digital health into federal healthcare
The bill's ultimate goal is to recommend how to integrate digital health into Medicare, Medicaid and other federal healthcare programs.
By Anne Zieger • Dec. 2, 2013 -
Deep Dive
24 Twitter hashtags the healthcare industry needs to follow
Knowing the most popular Twitter hashtag terms used by health leaders can turn the platform into a much more powerful tool.
By Anne Zieger • Dec. 2, 2013 -
Tracking technology a boon for hospital bed management
According to experts, some hospitals aren't aware of where patients are at all times.
By Anne Zieger • Nov. 26, 2013 -
Kaiser reports second data loss incident
The data loss occurred when a USB drive containing patient information went missing.
By Anne Zieger • Nov. 26, 2013 -
Telemedicine consults may cut medication errors at rural EDs
Rural ED doctors made med administration errors only 3% of the time when they worked with a remote teleconsulting physician.
By Anne Zieger • Nov. 25, 2013 -
Federal officials work to boost rural health IT use
ONC rural health officials outline goals for rural health IT, including extending local tech support to those early in the Meaningful Use program.
By Anne Zieger • Nov. 22, 2013
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