The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has announced the launch of its new Health IT Dashboard this week. The dashboard, accessible at http://dashboard.healthit.gov, was created […]
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Both the American Medical Association (AMA) and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) have officially submitted their comments on the proposed rules of Stage 2 of the Medicare/Medicaid
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The American Medical Association sent out a reminder this past Friday, May 4th, notifying its physicians of the June 30, 2012 deadline for reporting on at least ten electronic prescriptions in
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A study from the Commonwealth Fund has determined that more technology use and higher prices, and not increased usage of medical services, appear to be the primary forces behind higher U.S. healthcare
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make a meta description for this blog post: A collaboration among Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Pennsylvania’s Geisinger Health System, and Seattle’s Harborview Medical Center is demonstrating and evaluating
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The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) has engendered more than 4,000 eVisits, or digital house calls, since April 2009. The health system has also worked with four payers to
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A recent report by Kalorama Information, a medical market research publisher, indicates that Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems sales to physicians are growing faster than EHR sales to hospitals. Sales
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In order to garner a better understanding of how comprehensive electronic medical records software has been in the United States, a recent study published by Health Affairs examined a broad volume of data generated by the American Hospital Association.
Because many medical practices have been slow to transition information from hard-to-manipulate paper documents into electronic medical records software, those that are pioneering technology are at a unique advantage.
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The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services released a revised draft of the National Action Plan to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections: Roadmap to Elimination last week. The plan posits an
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