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Direct messaging: Not just for meaningful use anymore
While Direct messaging has had a circuitous path into health information exchange, Nemours is already using the protocol to meet the 10 percent threshold for sending electronic summary care records...
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How Blockchain can bolster interoperability and information security at the...
Blockchain technology gained international attention as the technology supporting bitcoin, a digital asset and a payment system that relies on peer-to-peer transactions taking place between users...
View ArticleKlara raises $3 million to advance its 'WhatsApp for medicine'
Klara, a New York-based healthcare messaging company launched in 2014, has raised $3 million in its most recent round of funding.Company executives describe its cloud-based HIPAA-compliant messaging...
View ArticleEven Before HL7 FHIR Becomes an Inferno, FHIR Innovations Flare Up
InteroperabilityInterSystemsBy: Dr. Russell Leftwich, senior clinical advisor, interoperability, InterSystemsInteroperability begins at home. The most fundamental interoperability is the ability to...
View ArticleHealthX Ventures raises $20 million to invest in early-stage startups...
HealthX Ventures closed a first round of funding worth $20 million. The Wisconsin-based venture capital fund is focused on investing in software businesses that solve cost, quality and access issues in...
View ArticlePanasonic scanners pass Drummond interoperability test suite
The line of scanners from Panasonic System Communications have successfully passed the Drummond Group test suite for interoperability with all EMR, EHR, PM and ECM electronic medical record software,...
View ArticleACOs face major IT challenges to improve cost and care quality, Commonwealth...
ACOs with commercial contracts are larger and more efficient than their non-commercial counterparts. But both types have something in common: They must make major investments in information technology...
View ArticleMoxe Health Raises $5.5 million to advance data sharing between payers and...
Moxe Health, founded in 2012 with the goal of connecting healthcare payers and providers for data exchange, has raised $5.5 million.The financing led by Safeguard Scientifics will go to expanding the...
View ArticleKLAS: Interoperability progressing but still challenging between disparate EHRs
Most healthcare providers agree that a high level of interoperability across different EHRs is critical for improving patient care, but a new KLAS report showed there’s a lot more work ahead to achieve...
View ArticleVote with Healthcare IT News readers on the hottest technologies for 2017
As 2016 enters its final season, healthcare executives are planning for next year and determining which technologies and initiatives to prioritize during the next 12 months.What will you upgrade in...
View ArticleEpic CEO Judy Faulkner opens up about why she's talking to reporters these days
VERONA, WISCONSIN — Epic Systems CEO Judy Faulkner enters the conference room at the EHR giant’s sprawling – and ever so whimsical – Intergalactic Headquarters at 1979 Milky Way. Framed boards with...
View ArticleInformation governance: Yes, it can create ROI
BALTIMORE – An effective information governance program can bring both tangible and intangible return on investment for healthcare providers – and often the latter is much more valuable than the...
View ArticlePhoenix Children's CIO on the upsides of Lean IT modernization
Electronic Health RecordsInteroperabilityNetwork InfrastructureTasked with accomplishing what takes some health systems $100 million with less $10 million, the IT shop conceived a new approach that...
View ArticleCapital One introduces Blockchain and analytics for healthcare
Credit card and retail banking company Capital One revealed a handful of partnerships with several digital technology providers for its Treasury Management services — including a blockchain-based...
View ArticleAHA to ONC: We need more transparency on interoperability standards
The American Hospital Association (AHA) urged the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) to provide more information used to develop specifications in its 2017 Interoperability...
View ArticleCleveland Clinic names top 10 medical innovations 2017
CLEVELAND — The Cleveland Clinic today revealed it’s top 10 medical innovations to expect in 2017.The top 10 innovations were unveiled to more than 1,600 doctors, entrepreneurs and other industry...
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Big Data and Healthcare Analytics Forum top takeaways
We have to make better use of health data.That was the final sentence spoken at the HIMSS and Healthcare IT News Big Data and Healthcare Analytics Forum this week.Sree Chaguturu, vice president of...
View ArticleONC chief sees Carequality patient data exchange in action
Vindell Washington, MD, the National Coordinator for Health IT, visited healthcare clinics and a long-term care nursing facility in St. Louis Oct. 25 to observe data exchange across different EHRs and...
View ArticleOpen source oncology software from Pitt, UPMC to speed genomic data sharing
TCGA Expedition, a new new tool developed by the University of Pittsburgh, UPMC and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, can help cancer investigators wade through huge amounts of genomic data.The...
View ArticleEpic CEO Judy Faulkner to receive award from her alma mater
Epic Systems CEO Judy Faulkner will be honored this fall with a prestigious Distinguished Alumni Award from her alma mater, the University of Wisconsin, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.It’s...
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