Interoperability shouldn't have fueled VA's Cerner decision, HL7 exec says
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announcement in early June that the agency would move its outdated EHR system to Cerner has been received with mixed reviews.While some wonder if Cerner is the...
View ArticleHIT leaders give innovation a voice at inaugural Health Innovation Summit
Innovation sometimes turns into an exercise in frustration, as good intentions are hampered by harsh realities including failed strategies, the lack of industry collaboration or public policies that...
View ArticleWith Apple consulting Argonaut Project on health records, interoperability...
Apple is said to be working with the Argonaut Project to integrate more electronic health data with the iPhone, a move experts say could go a long way towards advancing medical record...
View ArticleSenate demands timeline on Cerner EHR project for VA, DoD
Sens. John McCain, R-Arizona, Johnny Isakson, R-Georgia, and Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, are calling on the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense to prepare a timeline for the...
View ArticleTech hurdles delaying flow of Medicaid data, impatient OIG says
A new Office of Inspector General report shows the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, along with many state Medicaid agencies, reporting big challenges in submitting data to the Transformed...
View ArticleValue-based care: popular in theory, but what’s holding it back in practice?
There’s plenty of discourse and dissent about the future of healthcare in the United States. Value-based care, however, seems to be eliciting support from all corners, according to Jeff Coughlin,...
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View ArticleConnected health offers plenty of potential to fill existing care gaps
The average patient with five chronic conditions typically will sit in front of a doctor for only 15 out of the 8,760 hours in a year.“As we move to value-based care, we have to look at how a connected...
View ArticleCerner, Epic shops begin electronic exchange of patient records
Two North Carolina-based rival healthcare systems, Novant Health and Carolinas HealthCare, will start exchanging patient records electronically, they announced June 28.Novant is an Epic IT shop, while...
View ArticleVirtual care can turn solving the access challenge from impossible to...
Currently, the typical patient waits 29 days to see a physician, according to a recently released survey from Merritt Hawkins. And, it could get worse. The country is expected to experience a shortage...
View ArticleConsortium posts new LOINC spec that boosts interoperability among lab...
The IVD Industry Connectivity Consortium, a group working on standardizing data exchange between medical devices and information systems, has published a specification called LIVD that it says will...
View ArticleCerner co-founder and CEO Neal Patterson dies of cancer at age 67
Cerner Corporation announced that Cerner chairman and CEO Neal Patterson died Sunday, succumbing to unexpected complications that arose after a recent recurrence of a previously disclosed cancer.Cerner...
View ArticleHyland wraps up takeover of Lexmark's Perceptive unit, adds 700 employees
Hyland has finalized its acquisition of Lexmark International's Perceptive business unit, helping it build a more comprehensive suite of information management technology.The Perceptive enterprise...
View ArticleONC leaders see Silicon Valley-like future for EHR interoperability
Top leaders at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT offered a taste of what ONC’s main priorities are in the near-term and suggested where the agency is headed in the future.“When you...
View ArticleHyperledger Fabric 1.0 gives blockchain app developers new sandbox
In what's being billed as a huge milestone for blockchain developers, Hyperledger – a collaborative launched by the Linux Foundation to advance blockchain technologies in healthcare and elsewhere – has...
View ArticleBuzzwords CIOs and IT pros hate the most
We all say them, even more frequently than we might proudly admit and, then just like that, it’s hard not to sicken of these same phrases that were once exciting, maybe even fun to mutter. They’re...
View ArticleDuke, Novant Health, Carolinas HealthCare System sign on with NC HealthConnex
North Carolina’s state-designated health information exchange grew significantly this week, as three of the biggest health systems in the area agreed to share data via NC HealthConnex. The addition of...
View ArticleChange Healthcare makes another move toward blockchain, joins Hashed Health
Change Healthcare, the company formed in March by combining McKesson Technology Solutions and Change Healthcare Holdings, has joined the Hashed Health consortium – which gather health IT companies to...
View ArticleBloomAPI gets $2.4 million for software to release digital records securely,...
Seattle, Washington-based BloomAPI has raised $2.4 million for its medical records processing software. Y Combinator, Slow Ventures, Founder’s Co-Op, Section 32, Liquid 2 Ventures, and Parker Conrad...
View ArticleEpic rollout at New York hospital backed by $5.7 million state grant
New York State official this week announced $18.7 million in grants six projects to help transform healthcare system in the Finger Lakes Region, including $5.7 million for one hospital’s Epic EHR...
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