May 16, 2013 David Raths
blog
Baylor Quality Alliance, an affiliate of Baylor Health Care System, is creating its own health information exchange and will use Humedica's MinedShare to extract and normalize clinical and administrative data and provide detailed analytics. BQA will also participate in the American Medical Group Association’s (AMGA) Anceta Collaborative to enhance shared learning with other AMGA members.
May 3, 2013 Joe Marion
blog
I have been a loyal user of Nuance products for many years in support of my own business operations, including the Dragon speech recognition applications, as well as the OmniPage OCR, PDF Converter, and PaperPort applications for document management. As a loyal user, Nuance has occasionally included me in several “beta” evaluations of their software, including recently OmniPage Ultimate. Having used this application over the past several weeks, there are several new features that I believe have interesting consequences for healthcare.
May 2, 2013 David Raths
blog
Like country singer Willie Nelson, regional extension centers (RECs) in rural states are on the road again. Several RECs, which are helping primary care physicians achieve meaningful use, are undertaking statewide road shows to explain the benefits of connecting with health information exchanges to help meet Stage 2 of meaningful use.
March 5, 2013 David Raths
article
Allscripts paid $235 million for dbMotion, which provides a longitudinal clinical data repository with semantically normalized patient data, point-of-care tools, a physician portal, population tools and an analytics gateway.
December 19, 2012 Gabriel Perna
article
Across the country, IT leaders of hospitals and health systems are recognizing the importance of integration in the new healthcare environment. This means investments into open architecture, HIE, and other technologies that are helping bring disparate systems, and disparate elements of the care continuum, in a unified, seamless environment.
October 10, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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Spurred by a plethora of healthcare reform initiatives including meaningful use, health information exchanges (HIEs), accountable care organizations (ACOs), healthcare providers are considering bigger interoperability goals for their integration engine solutions that involve multiple technologies to affect seamless data flow within and between facilities, according to a report from the Orem, Utah-based KLAS Research. Interface engines are becoming the hub in which provider organizations are funneling myriad patient data systems in order to leverage existing patient information internally and externally.
October 8, 2012 David Raths
blog
The Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent (OSHERA), a nonprofit organization set up to facilitate open source EHR development will hold its first annual summit meeting Oct. 17-18 in Washington, D.C.
September 28, 2012 Gabriel Perna
blog
Recently, I sat in on an interesting webinar, presented by the folks at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), a non-profit looking to address varying healthcare challenges across the country through grants and research. The webinar focused on one of its many initiatives, Project HealthDesign, and it showed me the role observational daily patient data can play in improving outcomes.
September 10, 2012 David Raths
blog
An announcement in late June by four of Iowa’s leading healthcare organizations signals a trend we are likely to see much more of in the near future: competitors cooperating on care coordination and quality measurement platforms, which requires a greater level of collaboration among CIOs.
June 27, 2012
news
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Veterans Health Administration’s (VHA) Innovation Sandbox Cloud and the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Interoperability and Integration Innovation Lab are teaming up to create a vendor-neutral health IT innovation network. The network is designed to stimulate development of new ideas and shorten the time required to bring new solutions into practice.
