Is the athenahealth accelerator term sheet disruptive or just awful?
Not everyone is a fan of this kind of disruption, thank you. But is the tradeoff worth it?
GE Healthcare: We’re leaving the hospital EMR business
GE Healthcare confirmed at HIMSS 2015 that it is getting out of the hospital electronic medical records business. The company acknowledged on Tuesday that three years ago it decided to phase out its Centricity Enterprise product. It’s now helping customers with a “graceful transition over a number of years,” said Jon Zimmerman, general manager of […]
With the Rise of AI, What IP Disputes in Healthcare Are Likely to Emerge?
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
The ONC’s electronic medical records review was as ugly as you knew it would be (Morning Read)
No one who knows anything about the politics of interoperability, hospitals, electronic medical records and the issue of control in healthcare should be surprised at what the Office of the National Coordinator just said. What may be surprising, though, are the big personal bets Fidelity's CEO has made on cancer companies heading for IPOs. Read these stories and more in the Morning Read.
Validic inks deal with Cerner to integrate health and fitness, device data with clinical data into patient portal
Validic, a health IT company that developed a way to desilo data from medical devices and activity trackers, has signed a deal with electronic medical record provider Cerner, according to an emailed company statement. The deal is a major milestone for Validic and signals a significant expansion of its influence in the market. The deal […]
Larry Page’s personal health challenge that might draw Google deeper into healthcare
Larry Page's personal problem with vocal cord paralysis might be enough motivation to draw Google into a formal role in HIT and improving EMR data access.
Study: EHRs haven’t changed medical billing for inpatient care. But what about outpatient?
A new study says there’s no need to worry about hospitals using their new electronic medical records to generate bigger bills and boost their income. It’s been a concern since at least 2012, when the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services sent hospitals a strongly worded letter warning them against using electronic records […]
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A Personalized Approach to Medication Nonadherence
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
Report diagnoses four types of EHR patient safety problems
A new study published in the Journal of Medical Information Association highlights patient safety concerns arising from the massive push to shift hospitals from paper to electronic health records or updating these systems. The causes vary from the way EHR systems display data to insufficient training and modification errors. Researchers looked at 100 closed safety […]
CommonWell Health Alliance of EHRs rolls out interoperability platform this summer
A little more than one year after a group of EHR CEOs kicked off an interoperability initiative to make themselves a more effective rival to EPIC, the CommonWell Health Alliance has plans for a broader roll out of its technology this summer, according to a Forbes article. The initiative uses a software code that allows […]
CMS eases meaningful use deadlines after EHR vendors say they can’t meet them
The healthcare industry routinely gets criticized for being years behind other sectors. So it may not come as a surprise that hospitals and health IT vendors are finding it tough to satisfy the government’s meaningful use deadlines for certified electronic health record technology. CMS and ONC said in a statement that they’re easing up deadlines […]
Dell healthcare pitch winner applies big data to anesthesia information management system
Creating an anesthesia information management system is one of the challenges associated with converting paper records to electronic formats. They need to have an intuitive interface that easily fits in with anesthesiologists’ workflow, but also need to be easily integrated into an electronic medical record. Healthcare IT company Medical Information Records LLC tackled those challenges […]
Maximize Revenue and Patient Care with Strategic Weight Loss Management
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
Is Your EHR Safe? New Technologies for Auditing
Thursday, April 24th from 2:00 – 3:30 EST U.S. legislation such as the Affordable Care Act, HIPAA and HITECH outline rules governing the appropriate use of personal health information (PHI). Unfortunately, current technologies do not adequately monitor PHI use. In particular, while electronic medical records (EMR) systems maintain detailed audit logs that record each access to […]
Health IT firm rolls out middleware to ease some of the EMR interoperability headaches
When a patient arrives in the intensive care unit, ideally clinicians would be able to see the most up-to-date record of her health and care. But because electronic medical records systems made by different vendors don’t communicate with each other, that can’t always happen. Zoeticx is hoping to change that by introducing a platform that […]
Is M*Modal Ch 11 bankruptcy filing sign of increasing competition in natural language tech?
As more hospitals have adopted and upgraded electronic medical records, there has been a push by health IT companies to develop tools that can speed up workflows and also make it faster to find information hidden within unstructured data. M*Modal tackled both those needs with its natural language processing technology, also referred to as speech […]
CVS-Epic deal will add EHRs to MinuteClinic in run-up to major expansion
Just as CVS Caremark is poised to expand its MinuteClinic system, it’s inked a deal with Epic Systems to provide ambulatory electronic health record support for the clinics. The EHR/EMR giant will replace the homegrown EHR system CVS developed, according to a report by Modern Healthcare. It reflects a growing maturity of the MinuteClinic concept […]
Cleveland Clinic, Dell pair up to help late adopters, switchers implement Epic EMR
The Cleveland Clinic is teaming up with Dell to offer Epic EMR consulting and implementation services to other health systems and practices. The clinic, which has been using Epic for nearly a decade, already consults with nearby healthcare systems and practices through its MyPractice Healthcare Solutions services. Now, with the addition of Dell Healthcare and […]