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Joint Commission Resources, an affiliate of the Joint Commission, has launched a new consulting service that will provide an objective evaluation of technology with a patient safety focus.
Written by Gina Narcisi
ATLANTA--“Health IT support [within a hospital] may not have the skill set to manage images, and radiology support does not have skill set to manage integration of all hospital information, so we need both groups to work together. I think that both groups together will make a much stronger system,” said Janice Honeyman-Buck, PhD, independent imaging informatics consultant and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Digital Imaging, during her session Wednesday at HIMSS10.
EHR vendors must incorporate software-as-a-service (SaaS) and speech recognition services into their product portfolio if they wish to take advantage of market opportunities in 2010 EHR market, according to a report by market research firm Ovum.
The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) has certified EHR technology against proposed federal standards to support providers in qualifying for incentives under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). A total of 14 products have now been certified under its two new programs—CCHIT Certified 2011 Comprehensive and Preliminary ARRA 2011—launched on Oct. 7, 2009.
EHR use will always require human input to recontextualize knowledge, according to a review published December in Milbank Quarterly.
President Barack Obama announced Wednesday that the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) will administer nearly $600 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act awards to support construction and health IT projects in community health centers around the U.S.
Iowa’s Medicaid program is the first to receive matching federal funds to plan for the implementation of an EHRs incentive program as established by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).
The Small Business Health IT Financing Act, which includes a provision authorizing the Small Business Administration to guarantee health IT loans to small business health practices or medical professionals, was passed by the House of Representatives last week.
Healthcare services and IT developer McKesson has revealed a plan to integrate Horizon Connect--a component of its Horizon product suite--with its business platform RelayHealth in order to facilitate health information exchange (HIE).
New York University (NYU) Langone Medical Center launched the first phase of its EHR system this month at Trinity Center in lower Manhattan.
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ATLANTA–At the HIMSS10 conference this week, McKesson displayed a variety of EHR software ranging from systems for large hospitals and networks to products for small physician practices.
Acumen Solutions has been selected to provide a cloud computing customer relationship management and project management application to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC).
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has made available two additional grant programs to support the training and development of the skilled workforce required to support adoption and use of health IT.
David Blumenthal, MD, the national coordinator for health IT at the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS), on Friday announced plans to make available $60 million to support the development of Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP).
The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering has awarded the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) a contract totaling $4.7 million to design and launch a two-year pilot project--an Internet-based network for patient-controlled sharing of medical images.
QuadraMed, a provider of health IT and services, has entered into a definitive merger agreement to be acquired by Francisco Partners, a technology-focused private equity firm.
An “inappropriate definition" of meaningful use and “inefficient administration” of the Medicare and Medicaid EHR incentive programs will lead to failed implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), resulting in the “needless squandering of resources and significant disruption” to the U.S. healthcare system, according to a letter written to David Blumenthal, MD, from the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA).
The most promising option for curbing healthcare spending is changing the way doctors and hospitals are paid to provide care, but implementing such a system must overcome significant obstacles to be successful, according to an analysis by the nonprofit research organization RAND that was published Nov. 11 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Health IT developer Allscripts' customer rapport has dwindled following its merger last year with Misys, according to a report from market research firm KLAS.
A summarized form of EHRs—part of a plan expected to roll out across England over the next year—has gone online in the city of London, the U.K.'s Department of Health announced yesterday.
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The use of health IT to reduce rehospitalizations will be welcome but also disruptive, said Stephen Jencks, an independent consultant in healthcare safety during a Feb. 24 webinar on the potential use of health IT to mitigate rehospitalizations, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
During the Health IT Standards Committee meeting on Feb. 24 in Washington, D.C., the Clinical Operations Workgroup sought to gather comments on proposed recommendations on implementation specifications for content exchange, vocabulary and code set standards for the Interim Final Rule of meaningful use.
In 2006, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), a branch of the FDA, began examining the number of medical device reports they received. Over the past two years, the number of submitted reports has increased, sparking a demand for the CDRH to make a move to electronic reporting.
A new hospital breaking ground usually isn’t breaking news. But the vision of patient care at one new facility, tentatively named Palomar Medical Center West (PMC West), is currently illegal under California state law.