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NewsCAQH committee looks to broaden CORE governance
The Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH) has launched a transition committee to make recommendations about multi-stakeholder governance of its Committee on Operating Rules for Information Read more...
Allscripts says it has integrated outpatient EHR with Eclipsys inpatient system
Allscripts is moving rapidly to create a unified platform for data exchange among its inpatient, outpatient and post-acute care applications. How integrated all of its clinical information systems Read more...
VA shuts access to DoD medical records after data errors
Health information interoperability efforts between the Veterans Health Administration and the Military Health System suffered another setback, as the Department of Veterans Affairs cut off access to Read more...
KLAS: Only a few vendor HIE models currently replicable
While numerous vendors are touting their software for health information exchange, only a handful of companies to date have had more than a few successes in facilitating the transfer of patient data Read more...
Maine kicks off 15-hospital HIE demonstration program
Maine has kicked off a statewide 15-hospital health information exchange that will involve more than 2,000 clinicians, or more than one-third of the practicing physicians in the state. The Read more...
Satire looks slantwise at EMR vendors
Is your EMR certified by SEEDIE? How can you say you've done your job if your EMR doesn't meet the standards of the Society for Exorbitantly Expensive and Difficult to Implement EHRs? Just visit Read more...
Coalition wants e-prescribing included in Medicare reform
A coalition of 44 healthcare industry organizations have come together to ask Congress to to include e-prescribing mandates in Medicare reform legislation. The members want legislators to adopt the Read more...
ALSO NOTED: HIT execs want data security standards; AT&T, Tennessee create health data exchange; and much more...
> A new survey concludes that HIT execs would like to see the industry adopt a uniform way for verifying healthcare data security. Read more...
Report: HIEs/RHIOs are states' top HIT priorities
States consider health information exchanges and RHIOs (pick your acronym) to be their top e-health priorities, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report. When surveyed in 2007, 25 of 41 of states Read more...
BCBS of MA plan requires hospitals to use CPOE
Hospitals participating in Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts will soon be required to used computerized physician order entry under the insurer's new incentive plan. Under the health plan's Read more...
| Press ReleasesShared Health Announces Michael Heekin as CEO; Founding Chief Operating Officer of WebMD to Lead CompanyCHATTANOOGA, Tenn., July 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Shared Health, a leader in the health information technology (HIT) industry, today announced Michael Heekin has joined the company as Chief Executive Read more >> Halfpenny Technologies Partners with South Carolina Regional Extension Center on Nation’s First “Lab Hub” for HIENeutral lab hub will help ensure that providers meet lab-specific meaningful use certification requirements for physician EMR adoption BLUE BELL, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Halfpenny Technologies, Inc., Read more >> Blue Cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania Selects Benefitfocus Technology for Online Enrollment and BillingCHARLESTON, S.C., May 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Benefitfocus today announced that Blue Cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania (BCNEPA) has selected the BENEFITFOCUS® Platform to provide online enrollment Read more >> Halfpenny Technologies’ Founder to Present on Lab-EMR Integration at the 16th Annual Executive War CollegePresentation will explore secure, cost-effective strategies for integrating laboratory information systems with physician EMR systems and address meaningful use from the lab perspective BLUE BELL, Read more >> Halfpenny Technologies Selected for Clinical Data Exchange Solutions by 13 New Clients in First Quarter 2011Agreements demonstrate company’s continued momentum in facilitating connectivity across healthcare organizations BLUE BELL, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Halfpenny Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of Read more >> |
