If you or your family were injured during a disaster like a hurricane, earthquake or forest fire, wouldn’t you want your health data to be available to first responders and others who are there to provide care? We thought you might, and we are partnering with the State of California to pilot just such a project. Working at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), we have had the opportunity to leverage investments in health information technology to spur innovation in public health and preparedness...
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Kubernetes Supports Container Management for HIT Infrastructure
Elizabeth O'Dowd | HIT Infrastructure | September 7, 2017
Open source clouds, virtualization, and application management efforts are growing in healthcare as vendors are using tools that are meant to enhance deployment and management of applications. Kubernetes is one such tool that is becoming more popular in HIT infrastructure...
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Labor Dept. $500 Million Community College Grants Include Health IT
Bernie Monegain | Government Health IT | September 20, 2012
The Department of Labor released $500 million in grants to community colleges and universities around the country for the development and expansion of training programs, including for health IT and other healthcare programs in rural areas. Read More »
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Latest ECRI Institute Report Names Top 10 Hospital Technology Issues
Staff Writer | HITECH Answers | February 21, 2013
The Emergency Care Research Institute (ECRI) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing applied scientific research to enable improvement of patient care. The organization is a designated Evidence-Based Practice Center by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and listed as a federal Patient Safety Organization by HHS... Read More »
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Lawmakers Call For 'Reboot' Of Meaningful Use Program
Marla Durban Hirsch | FierceEMR | April 16, 2013
Six Republican Senators have formally requested that U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius provide a written plan to address how the agency is implementing the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act. Read More »
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Legislators: Expand EHR Anti-Kickback Safe Harbors
Dan Bowman | FierceEMR | July 19, 2013
In a recent letter to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Marilyn Tavenner and National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari, House legislators call for the expansion of the physician self-referral law exception and anti-kickback statute safe harbor for electronic health records. Read More »
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Leveraging The S&I Framework To Improve Collaborative Care
Viet Nguyen | Government HealthIT | April 14, 2014
With the concept of collaborative care now at the forefront of the healthcare industry, organizations are working to improve the functionality and interoperability of health IT systems. To facilitate the meaningful exchange of clinical and financial information, however, it is essential for various technologies within and among organizations to effectively communicate.
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Limited EHR Access To Lead Patients To Switch Providers?
Kyle Murphy | EHR Intelligence | September 17, 2013
As eligible hospitals and professionals in the EHR Incentive Programs already know, Stage 2 Meaningful Use ups the ante on patient engagement by requiring these providers to exceed certain thresholds for patient access to health information. But why should providers care about EHR patient access? Read More »
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LiveData Congratulates Miami VA Healthcare System Upon Winning Health Data Management’s Top Honor For Patient Safety Project Of The Year
Press Release |
LiveData, Inc., Miami VA Healthcare System |
July 15, 2014
LiveData today congratulated the Miami VA Healthcare System for receiving Health Data Management’s top Award for Patient Safety Project of the Year. The award recognizes the impact that OR-Dashboard with Active Time Out, LiveData’s operational intelligence and patient safety solution, has had during its first year in use at the Bruce W. Carter VA Medical Center in Miami...
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Logging On For Life
Beverly Merz | The Atlantic | January 15, 2014
Digital access to medical records empowers patients through better communication, smarter decisions, and continuous health tracking online. Read More »
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Luis Ibáñez to be Interviewed in vxJourney Program on Thursday
Luis Ibáñez, one of the best known advocates of open source solutions in healthcare will be interviewed Thursday, May 1, by Fabian Lopez in the popular vxJourney weekly webinar. Ibáñez a contributing author to Open Health News as well as other publications, in particular Opensource.com, will talk about the VistA course that he has been teaching at the State University of New York at Albany. Read More »
Posted April 29, 2014 - 5:50pm by Roger A. Maduro
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M&A Can Be Hazardous To Health IT
Erin McCann | Healthcare IT News | January 1, 2013
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) can be hazardous to a company's health, industry experts often warn. In the realm of health IT, this caveat has proved no exception. Read More »
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MaineHealth To Go Live With New EHR, Speech Tech
Bernie Monegain | Healthcare IT News | October 2, 2012
As it rolls out a new electronic health record system across eight hospitals, MaineHealth will also deploy speech recognition technology to make it easier and quicker to fill in the patient chart. Read More »
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Majority Of Surveyed Docs Using Mobile Devices In Practices
Joseph Conn | ModernHealthcare.com | July 23, 2013
Mobile computing devices are becoming almost as much of an essential tool in U.S. physician practices as the exam table, according to a new survey. Read More »
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Making Personal Health Data Available During an Emergency
By Lee Stevens | March 26, 2017
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Marin General Hospital Nurses Warn That New Computer System Is Causing Errors, Call For Time Out
Staff Writer | Health Care Renewal | May 17, 2013
Of course, the ever-present euphemism for life-threatening EHR malfunctions and defects, i.e., "glitches" are the cause... Read More »
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