As providers continue to seek ways to do more with fewer resources, the limited hardware expenses, ease of use and growing confidence in cloud storage continue to make software-as-a-service (SaaS) tools more enticing, according to a May report from market researcher KLAS.
Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) EHR Association (EHRA) has requested federal officials to allow Stage 1 meaningful use providers to continue using sanctioned Stage 1 certified technology in 2014 in lieu of switching to an updated 2014 edition of certified technology.
Are state level health information exchanges already obsolete before sprinting out of the gates? Chris Dimick, writer at AHIMA, poses the question in an article published in
Journal of the American Health Information Management Association.
Despite worlds of potential, sales of Microsoft's Amalga have been limited and its overall KLAS performance score has dropped 14 points in the last two years, from 84.2 to 69.9, revealing a split personality in customer opinions, the market research firm KLAS found in its newest survey.
It’s no surprise that when a proposed rule on meaningful use is revealed, a litany of organizations want their voices heard. May 7 was the last day to submit comments to the Stage 2 meaningful use proposed rule to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and five organizations have joined the din of democratic speech on the legislation.
Clinical documentation service provider M*Modal has entered into a software interface license agreement with 3M Health Information Systems.
Various types of information communication technology (ICT) are being employed by private organizations to address key health system challenges. However, for successful implementation, more sustainable sources of funding, greater support for the adoption of new technologies and better ways of evaluating impact are required, according to an article published in the May 1 issue of the
Bulletin of the World Health Organization.
The American College of Radiology (ACR) has submitted comments to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) regarding the agencies’ March 7 proposed rules to revise professional and technology requirements of the EHR meaningful use incentive program.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has amended the Physician Payments Sunshine Act to provide time for organizations to prepare for data submission.
A tidal wave of healthcare business intelligence (BI) purchases is anticipated in the next three years, according to a new report from market researcher KLAS
. Energy around healthcare BI is increasing at a frenetic pace with 52 percent of providers looking to buy (33 percent) or replace (19 percent) their BI tools in the next three years.
Most of the major payment changes to the healthcare industry—those that could substantially realign incentives, reduce costs and help drive delivery system reform—are associated with various pilot projects or other initiatives that will come out of the Innovation Center at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), according to Gail R. Wilensky, PhD, senior fellow at Project HOPE, a global health education and humanitarian assistance organization.
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s (HIMSS) Analytics EMR Adoption Model (EMRAM) is seeking to get the European treatment. Healthcare organizations BCS and HIMSS have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on a project to introduce the adoption model to the U.K.
The first year of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) EHR incentive programs is currently lacking certain efficiencies to verify that providers meet the designated requirements, according to an April report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
As U.S. hospitals rush to adopt new health IT systems, such as computerized medication ordering, the potential for these advances to inadvertently result in harm to patients remains a major challenge for hospitals and technology companies, according to market research firm, Leapfrog Group.
The Clinical Informatics Research and Development (R&D) group at Partners HealthCare Systems in Boston is conducting a clinical decision support (CDS) survey to assess opinions on the state of current and future CDS.
With the advancement of technology in smartphones and the introduction of tablets, the line between traditional computing and mobile is becoming blurred, said Jason W. Zeller, director of information security and risk management at Kaiser Permanente, during a virtual event hosted by mHIMSS.
Although the federal Medicare incentives will be available through 2016, and Medicaid incentives through 2021, widespread gaps in readiness throughout the states illustrate the challenges physicians face in meeting the federal schedule for the incentive programs, according to an article published in the April edition of
Health Affairs.
As radiology slips further toward commoditization, providers need to find ways to add value to their services using health IT, which means improving the translation of medical imaging IT innovations from the research lab to the clinical environment, according to Paul J. Chang, MD, medical director, enterprise imaging, at University of Chicago Hospitals.
At the outset, using local growth factors to set spending targets may better align savings for ACOs with savings for Medicare and reduce the financial uncertainty involved in participation, according to a perspective paper published April 25 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The fastest sales growth and heaviest competition in the EMR market is in products sold to physicians, particularly tools sold over the internet, according to healthcare market research firm Kalorama Information.
