May 29, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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The Farmington, Conn.-based Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission, a non-profit standards development organization and accrediting body, has posted new criteria for various accreditation programs including ones that address the new HIPAA [Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act] Omnibus Rule, and ones on cloud computing, health information exchange, and ePrescribing.
May 23, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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In this interview with Healthcare Informatics Associate Editor Gabriel Perna, Matthew Mombrea, CTO and co-founder of Cypress North, creator of Smart Sign Out, talks about how the app came to life and what terrible incident partly inspired him. The app helps clinicians by giving them real-time patient information, so they can better coordinate care during shift changes or department transfers.
May 23, 2013 Mark Hagland
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At a time when the meaningful use process is intensifying for providers, and as accountable care structures emerge, industry experts agree: CIOs and other healthcare IT leaders need to push vendors hard in order to obtain—and maintain—favorable contracting terms
May 22, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) recently announced a new initiative aimed at increasing efficiencies and reducing the time and costs associated with ICD-10 compliance. The effort will bring together state collaborative organizations and their members, the Reston, Va.-based non-profit organization, said in a release.
May 22, 2013 David Raths
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The Beacon Community Program launched by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT winds down in 2013. This week representatives from the 17 Beacon communities met in Washington, D.C., to share their experiences and discuss how their work will serve as the scaffolding for further clinical and payment reform efforts.
May 21, 2013 Ben Rooks
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Last year at this time we noted that 2011 saw fewer transformational deals than we would have expected. Surprisingly, 2012 saw fewer still. In fact, the two most noteworthy deals could have been the ones that failed to occur.
May 20, 2013 Mark Hagland
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At Vanderbilt University Medical Center, CMIO Neal Patel , M.D. has been a driving force in clinical transformation work. Among his achievements there to date has been the creation of what he and his colleagues call the 'team summary' concept, which is working no turn simple standardized templates into advanced documentation tools that incorporate data analysis modules and modular capture of clinical content.
May 17, 2013 Mark Hagland
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The challenges and opportunities facing the pioneers showing the way to the new healthcare were on full display on Thursday afternoon, May 17, in educational sessions at the Healthcare Informatics Executive Summit, being held at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel in San Francisco.
May 16, 2013 John DeGaspari
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At a morning breakout session of the HCI Executive Summit, Sam VanNorman, director of business intelligence, and Curtis A. Boehm, M.D., chief medical information officer, gave their perspectives on Park Nicollet Health System’s experience as a Pioneer Accountable Care Organization.
May 16, 2013 Mark Hagland
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Russell Branzell, president and CEO of CHIME, opened the Healthcare Informatics third annual Executive Summit at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel in San Francisco on May 16 with a stirring call to what he called participation in the emerging healthcare 'revolution'--work to fundamentally change the processes of healthcare and the dynamics of value in the healthcare system.
May 16, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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Houston Northwest Medical Center—a 339-bed teaching hospital—received the top ranking in the Raleigh, N.C.-based Axial Exchange’s Texas Patient Engagement Index (PEI), which ranks U.S. hospitals based on an analysis of publically available data in three categories: personal health management, patient satisfaction and social media engagement.
