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Clinovo Ranked #9 Among 494 Biotech By Business Intelligence Company SIGNL
SIGNL, a service that tracks the fastest-growing companies worldwide, ranked Clinovo at 9th position among 494 companies in the pharmaceutical, medical device and biotechnology industry. From startups to big businesses, SIGNL measures the success of a company’s engine by aggregating and quantifying evidence of a business growth. Read More »
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Cloud-Based EHRs With Integrated Billing Solutions May Save Thousands Of Independent Physicians From Acquisition, Reveals Black Book RCM Study
Nearly ten percent of physician practices are acquiescing to takeover offers from hospitals and larger medical groups, while more autonomous doctors confront the fallout from owning outmoded billing systems and unworkable electronic health records. However, Black Book surveys detect a defiant tipping point from the majority of independent physicians recently shifting to replacement EHRs... Read More »
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CMS: Meaningful Use EHR Incentives Hit $12.3B In February
With some healthcare providers now into their second year of meaningful use reporting, Medicare and Medicaid electronic health record payments were estimated at $12.3 billion paid to a total of 219,000 physicians and hospitals through February since the program’s inception. Read More »
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Cone Remains 'Confident' In The Future Despite S&P Report
It’s been a tough year for Cone Health. The health care provider spent $90 million implementing an electrical medical records software system called Epic. It eliminated hundreds of jobs. It had to deal with Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement at the state and national level. Read More »
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CONNECT Sprint Reviews are Now Open to the CONNECT Community!
Work on CONNECT Release 4.0 has begun, and the CONNECT team wants to encourage active participation from the CONNECT Community in our development processes for the newest release. Release 4.0 sprint reviews and planning sessions are open to the public and a great way to engage with the CONNECT product team and community. Read More »
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Continuing Connectivity Struggles Lead To Declining Satisfaction Scores For HIE Vendors
Across the health information exchange (HIE) market, providers are expressing dissatisfaction with their vendors as connectivity issues persist. This and other key findings were released in a new KLAS report "Health Information Exchange 2012: Muddled in Interfaces." Read More »
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Contractors Who Built Healthcare.gov Website Blame Each Other For All The Problems
With all the problems associated with the Healthcare.gov rollout, a bunch of fingers (including ours) pointed at the usual list of government contracting cronies who built the thing. The deal was done under an existing contract (so no open bidding) and involved the same "usual suspects" who have been connected to a number of other large government computer systems debacles... Read More »
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Coverage Expansion Fail: Less Than One-Third Of Obamacare Exchange Enrollees Were Previously Uninsured
At the end of the day, for all of the rhetoric and promises about what Obamacare would achieve, the health law’s most ardent supporters have stuck to their guns because of one thing: coverage expansion. But new data suggests that Obamacare may fail even to achieve this goal. Instead of expanding coverage to those without it, Obamacare is replacing the pre-existing market for private insurance. [...] Read More »
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CSSi Awarded VA T4 Task Order On Health IT
Federal contractor CSSi, has been awarded a prime contract for Flow Improvement Initiative Support Services as part of the Veterans Affairs Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology (T4) Contract Vehicle. [...] Read More »
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Demystifying The Black Box Of Data Analytics
[...] How healthcare organizations are bridging the gap between these large, disparate data sources and using them to impact the organization’s financial performance, improve member health, and alter member engagement will determine which organizations thrive in the future. Read More »
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Despite Scandal, Former UnitedHealth CEO Was Ninth Best Paid CEO Of The Decade
A little while ago, the Wall Street Journal reported on the highest paid US corporate CEOs of the past decade. One name stood out for those interested in health care: Dr William W McGuire, the former CEO of giant health care insurance company/ managed care organization UnitedHealth Group. [...] Read More »
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Developing a Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for FrontlineSMS
I have recently joined the FrontlineSMS team in Nairobi as part of an ongoing Monitoring and Evaluation Project rolled out by FrontlineSMS in collaboration with [others]. So far, my experience in Nairobi has been very enriching. Getting to know the FrontlineSMS Nairobi team, meeting FrontlineSMS users and finding out about other M4D and ICT4D start-ups working out of Nairobi’s iHub, has been a very exciting and valuable learning opportunity. Read More »
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Did The Tea Party Design The Obamacare Website?
Whether you support the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or not, one thing is clear - whoever designed and implemented the healthcare.org site must not be a big fan. In this day and age it is hard to believe the government could not build a scalable, elastic website that is in essence just one big form. But my "adventure" in trying to enroll has been an unmitigated disaster... Read More »
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Docs In For Stage 2 Rude Awakening
Most office-based physicians are not prepared for the October 2014 beginning attestation date. In fact, many aren't even close. Only 13 percent say their electronic health record systems have the abilities to support 14 of the 17 core Stage 2 objectives, according to a new CDC trends report released last week. Read More »
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Doctors Using Electronic Health Records Provide Higher Quality Healthcare
The use of electronic health records is linked to significantly higher quality care, according to a new study by Lisa Kern and her team, from the Health Information Technology Evaluation Collaborative in the US. Their work appears online in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, published by Springer. Read More »
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