electronic health records (EHRs)

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CIO: Consider 'Lessons Learned' Before Implementing Open Source EHRs

Marla Durben Hirsch | FierceEMR | July 9, 2013

Open source electronic health record systems such as VistA are better than closed proprietary systems in terms of development, innovation and continuous quality improvement, but providers can still make the transition run more smoothly, according to Peter Groen, former CIO of Atlanta VA Medical Center. Read More »

CIOs To Fed Advisors On Stage 2: We Need More Time

Joseph Goedert | HealthData Management | July 23, 2013

The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives recently called for a one-year extension of Stage 2 of the electronic health records meaningful program, and on July 23 several CIOs testified before federal advisory committees on why the extension is needed. Read More »

City of Leeds Blazing a Trail with an Open Platform Person Held Record

Press Release | Ripple Foundation | May 10, 2017

Leeds is leading the way in developing and piloting an open platform based Person Held Record (PHR) for local people. It follows extensive engagement with individuals, care professionals and stakeholders across the city to understand their needs and aspirations. It is believed a PHR will help people to better manage and control their own care and wellbeing and help prevent further health issues...

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Clarifying MACRA Certification Requirements for Hospitals

With all the changes happening to Meaningful Use, Quality Measurement, and MACRA in 2016, I’ve been asked many questions by many organizations to help them plan for the future. As I’ve said many times, one of the great challenges we have is that the 2015 Edition final rule has an enormous scope extending beyond Meaningful Use with the notion that it can be coupled to every government healthcare IT program. Standards need to be based on requirements and specific use cases with little optionality, so creating a broadly scoped rule before the use cases are known just doesn’t work...

Cleveland Clinic, IBM Making Progress On Watson Supercomputer

Joseph Goedert | Health Data Management | October 15, 2013

A year after starting work with IBM to develop ways for the Watson supercomputer to support medical training and serve as a doctor’s assistant, the Cleveland Clinic has issued a progress report that includes two new technologies. Read More »

Clicks-and-Mortar: Health Care's Future

The woes of the retail industry are well known, and are usually blamed on the impact of the Internet.  Credit Suisse projects that 8,600 brick-and-mortar stores will close in 2017, which would beat the record set in 2008, at the height of the last recession.  There are "zombie malls," full of empty stores but not yet shuttered. And then there's health care, where the retail business is booming. In a recent Wall Street Journal article, Christopher Mims set forth Three Hard Lessons the Internet is Teaching Traditional Stores.  The lessons are: Data is King, Personalization + Automation = Profits, Legacy Tech Won't Cut It.

Clinical Trial Design Management: Best Practices for Small Budget Studies

ClinCapture  hosted the 12th BioTalks in Park City, UT, on the topic of Clinical Trial Design & Management: Best Practices for Small Budget Studies. This was the first event in the series hosted in the biotech hub of Salt Lake City. The panel discussion gathered experts from CROs and sponsor companies to conduct quality clinical trials in a cost effective manner. Industry experts shared their knowledge on running high quality, small budget clinical trials covering clinical operations to clinical data management and biostatistics...

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Clinovo Presents at the DIA 2015 51st Annual Meeting in Washington, DC on June 14th-18th

Press Release | Clinovo | May 19, 2015

Glenn Keet, CEO of Clinovo, will present on “The Changing Landscape of EMR/EHR Clinical Data Integration with EDC Systems” at the upcoming DIA Annual Meeting taking place in Washington, D.C. on June 14th-18th. During the presentation, Glenn Keet will discuss the challenges of integrating EMR/EHR systems with EDC, and will examine the value of patient engagement, in particular the opportunities brought by eSource and electronic health records/electronic medical records integration.

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Cloud-Based EHRs Could Save Docs From Acquisition

Susan D. Hall | FierceEMR | September 5, 2013

Upgrading software to more fully integrate revenue cycle management, practice management and electronic health records may be the key to helping thousands of physician practices remain independent, according to a new Black Book survey. Read More »

Cloud-Based EHRs With Integrated Billing Solutions May Save Thousands Of Independent Physicians From Acquisition, Reveals Black Book RCM Study

Press Release | Black Book Rankings | September 3, 2013

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 »

Cloud-based Vendors Giving Health IT A Boost

Xavier E. Martinez | Power Your Practice | October 16, 2013

According to a recent Black Book Rankings report, 17% of physician practices are considering switching EHR vendors by January 2014. So, it should come as no surprise that many are looking for health IT vendors with a fresh approach to fulfilling physician software needs. Read More »

Clouded "Visionary" Leadership - Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center's EPIC "Business Cycle Disruptions"

Roy M. Poses | Health Care Renewal | May 10, 2013

A typical excuse for the multi-million dollar compensation now enjoyed by many leaders of health care organizations is these leaders' supposed brilliance. [...] Recent events, however, suggest that the "visionaries" may need new glasses. Read More »

Cloudera Contributing to President’s Precision Medicine Initiative

Press Release | Cloudera | February 25, 2016

Precision medicine promises to revolutionize healthcare: to improve diagnosis, to target treatment, and to deliver better care. Living up to that promise requires collaboration and analysis of large amounts of complex data from many sources, privately and securely. Cloudera, the global provider of the fastest, easiest, and most secure data management and analytics platform built on Apache Hadoop and the latest open source technologies, today announced it will support President Barack Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) by providing training and software, and will collaborate with academic and government research institutions doing non-commercial work on the use of data and analytics for healthcare. 

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CMS Announces New Meaningful Use Implementation Timeline

Nicole Freeman | EHR Intelligence | December 6, 2013

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), in conjunction with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) have updated the implementation timeline for the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs. Read More »

CMS Awards Up-To-$15B Virtual Datacenter Contract

Mary Mosquera | Government Health IT | November 20, 2012

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has awarded a 10-year contract valued at up to $15 billion to eight vendors to compete to build various aspects of a virtual datacenter, which will provide the agency’s IT infrastructure and services that operate its business systems and better safeguard its healthcare information. Read More »