Electronic Health Record (EHR)
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PwC to Offer DoD Open Source EHR
PwC US announced Friday it would put in a bid for the Department of Defense EHR contract, proposing an open source system. Leveraging investments already made by the government into the Open Source Electronic Health Record Alliance by merging open source software with commercial applications, PwC plans to combine its healthcare operational and transformation capabilities with commercial EHR vendors DSS and MedSphere, and systems integrator General Dynamics Information Technology. Read More »
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PwC to Propose Open Source EHR System to the Department of Defense
PwC US today announced its intent to pursue the Department of Defense (D0D) Healthcare Management Systems Modernization (DHMSM) Electronic Health Record (EHR) contract. The DHMSM program would replace and modernize the Military Health System (MHS) which currently supports more than 9.7 million beneficiaries, including active duty, retirees and their dependents. Read More »
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Q&A: Dave Peters on open source adoption within Veterans Affairs
The high-profile attention open source adoption within the Veterans Affairs Department received from some now-retired political appointee executives was a spur to action – but also led over the past year to worries that with those executives gone, open source would no longer be a priority. Read More »
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Query Health to Demo 'Round Trip' at HIMSS12
Michael Buck, PhD, just might be the poster boy for Query Health. ONC’s distributed querying initiative is gearing up to enable physicians and public health officials to ask simple questions against complex and diverse systems spanning geographic regions to get real-time health data in return – and to do so without building the sort of mammoth data warehouse IBM or Oracle would showcase. Read More »
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Raxa - Open source EMR software for rural healthcare systems
Many people in this world do not have ready access to healthcare providers and have little or no control over their personal health information. The few who do have access are starting to see the potential benefits of using information technology (IT) like electronic medical record (EMR) system to improve their own health. These systems offer an opportunity to reduce healthcare costs while simultaneously improving quality of care. This is particularly true of Raxa, an 'open source' EMR project based in India. Read More »
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Readers Respond: Why Epic Adoption Requires Governance
When an EHR vendor selection process ends with the choice of Epic Systems, it is going to require a significant financial investment upfront that impacts a healthcare organization’s bottom line. Whether that initial expenditure is later accompanied by unexpected capital contributions tends to be the direct result of poor planning rather than having made the wrong choice of an EHR system...
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REC Data Shows Docs Waiting for Vendor EHR Upgrades
Physicians have reported to regional health IT extension centers that waiting for vendor technology upgrades and subsequent certification are among their biggest barriers for meeting meaningful use.
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Recipients of the 2011 EHR Game Changers Awards
Health Data Management launched the EHR Game Changers program in 2010 to honor individuals who have been true game changers in the design, advocacy, deployment and development of electronic health records technology. Read More »
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Recipients of the 2011 EHR Game Changers Awards
Health Data Management launched the EHR Game Changers program in 2010 to honor individuals who have been true game changers in the design, advocacy, deployment and development of electronic health records technology.
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Recipients of the 2011 EHR Game Changers Awards
Health Data Management launched the EHR Game Changers program in 2010 to honor individuals who have been true game changers in the design, advocacy, deployment and development of electronic health records technology.
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Release of the VistA Evolution Program Plan and VistA 4 Product Roadmap
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has requested OSEHRA’s assistance in publicizing two key documents: the VistA Evolution Program Plan and the VistA 4 Product Roadmap. These official reports, submitted to Congress in March of this year, contain a wealth of information and specific plans to make VistA a state-of-the-art electronic health record.
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Report From HIMSS 2012: Toward Interoperability and Openness
I was wondering how it would feel to be in the midst of 35,000 people whose livelihoods are driven by the decisions of a large institution at the moment when that institution releases a major set of rules. I didn't really find out, though. The 35,000 people I speak of are the attendees of the HIMSS conference and the institution is the Department of Health and Human Services. Read More »
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Report From HIMSS12: Wrap-Up of the Largest Health IT Conference
This is a time of great promise in health care, yet an oppressive atmosphere hung over much of HIMSS. All the speakers--not least the government representatives who announced rules for the adoption of electronic health records--stressed commendable practices such as data exchange, providing the patient with information, and engaging with the patient. Read More »
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Report From HIMSS: Health Care Tries to Leap the Chasm From the Average to the Superb
I couldn't attend the session today on StealthVest--and small surprise. Who wouldn't want to come see an Arduino-based garment that can hold numerous health-monitoring devices in a way that is supposed to feel like a completely normal piece of clothing? Read More »
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Report: Strong EHR Market Growth Through 2016
While some industry research firms have forecast a slowdown in the electronic health records market after 2013, Millennium Research Group predicts strong revenue growth for the next half-decade. Read More »
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