May 22, 2013
More than half of all doctors and other eligible providers have received Medicare or Medicaid incentive payments for adopting or meaningfully using electronic health records (EHRs), according to an announcement from the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS).
May 21, 2013
HealthInfoNet, the Portland, Maine-based non-profit that operates the statewide health information exchange (HIE), has announced that it has signed every single acute-care hospital within the state to connect to the query-based HIE.
May 21, 2013
Minneapolis-based Healthland, a longtime player in healthcare information technology for rural and community hospitals, has acquired American HealthTech, Jackson, Miss., a provider of electronic health record (EHR) systems and documentation software designed for long-term and post-acute care organizations.
May 21, 2013
Four leading health systems in the Charlotte, N.C.-based Premier healthcare alliance have formed a new collaborative to reduce supply costs and enhance care delivery.
May 21, 2013
At last week's California HIE Stakeholder Summit in Sacramento, two announcements were made involving organizations seeking to build trust mechanisms between health information exchanges.
May 20, 2013
An iPhone application transmitted diagnostic heart images faster and more reliably than e-mailing photo images, according to a research study presented at the American Heart Association’s Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Scientific Sessions 2013, held from May 15 to 17 in Baltimore.
May 20, 2013
Siemens Healthcare, a Malvern, Penn.-based company that prints and mails doctors’ bills on behalf of LSU Health Shreveport, and LSU Health Shreveport are notifying patients of a computer issue which resulted in an unintentional disclosure of personal health information.
May 17, 2013
According to a recent report from the Orem, Utah-based research firm, KLAS, pressures from meaningful use under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) as well as other regulatory changes are prompting providers to pull back on extensive IT outsourcing (EITO), as they seek greater control over IT systems within their organization.
May 16, 2013
Bed management software applications, which are used to manage the use of beds in the hospital, present as a “hot” market for vendors and providers to watch, according to data from the recently released HIMSS Analytics report, "Essentials of the U.S. Hospital IT Market."
May 16, 2013
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.
May 15, 2013
MedeAnalytics, an Emeryville, Calif.-based provider of data analytics solutions that are used for performance management, has appointed Andrew Hurd as the company’s CEO. Mike Gallagher, the previous CEO of the company, will continue to serve as MedeAnalytics’ executive chairman.
May 15, 2013
The Florida Health Exchange (HIE) has facilitated a service that will now allow providers to query medical records of participating healthcare organizations for individual patient data, and two large organizations have announced their participation. The providers, Strategic Health Intelligence of Pensacola and Atlantic Coast Health Information Exchange of Miramar, are using what’s called the Florida Health Information Exchange Patient Look-Up Service.
May 15, 2013
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced a nearly $1 billion initiative that will fund awards and evaluation to build on the Obama administration’s work to transform the healthcare system by delivering better care and lowering costs. This second round of Health Care Innovation Awards will fund applicants that have a high likelihood of driving health care system transformation and delivering better outcomes.
May 14, 2013
The healthcare world continues to be plagued by data breaches. Two providers, Indiana University Health Arnett, Inc. in Lafayette, Ind. and the Regional Medical Center in Memphis, Tenn., both announced incidents, separately, this past week.
May 14, 2013
According to a recent analysis by consulting firm Deloitte, 71 percent of all physicians believe that the promise of reduced costs resulting from increased use of health IT tools is inflated and that it will actually cost more, not less.
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