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Judy Faulkner: 'Good software is art'
LAS VEGAS – For Judy Faulkner, the quest for interoperability started in 2004.“We were the first,” she pointed out in an interview with Healthcare IT News, on Tuesday in a meeting room at the Epic...
View ArticleMITRE shares an open source FHIR testing tool
LAS VEGAS — FHIR holds great promise to solve the problems that continue to slow interoperability. But as software is developed to provide the bridges between systems, developers are learning that...
View ArticleSlavitt, DeSalvo: Health IT has to work better for doctors
LAS VEGAS – In a co-presentation with National Coordinator Karen DeSalvo, MD, at HIMSS16 Tuesday evening, Acting Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Andy Slavitt said physicians...
View ArticleSignet Accel debuts Avec database-agnostic data integration platform
LAS VEGAS – Signet Accel has launched Avec, a commercial federated data integration platform designed to offer interoperability to healthcare organizations, the company announced at HIMSS16.Avec...
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Sponsored: Keeping core operations in focus under healthcare reform
Much of the focus of healthcare reform has not been on the core operations of organizations; however, the ability to reduce costs and drive efficiency while continually improving clinical quality and...
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Sponsored: Connecting care around the world: moving from vision to reality
Joe DeSantis, vice president of HealthShare Platforms, is responsible for all aspects of the InterSystems HealthShare informatics platform, including software development, product marketing and...
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Sponsored: The Evolution of Cloud Enablement
Ajay Dholakia, MBA, PhD, is a senior engineering staff member with the Lenovo Enterprise Business Group, working on customer solutions in the areas of big data, analytics, cloud, virtualized...
View ArticleCMS backs interoperability for long-term care facilities, behavioral health
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Wednesday said it will permit states to request 90 percent enhanced matching funds to help other healthcare providers such as long-term care...
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Sponsored: Collective Health: re-defining health insurance through technology...
Preston Tollinger is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer for Collective Health, a software and services company for self-insured employers. His passion is developing simple software solutions to...
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Sponsored: Closing up security gaps in healthcare
Gerald (Jerry) Fralick has more than 40 years of experience in the IT field and public sector management and operations. As Lenovo’s chief security officer (CSO) for the Corporate Standards and Quality...
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Q&A: Succeeding on the journey to value-based care
Succeeding on the journey to value-based care The journey to value-based care is a complicated one with varied aspects. Jonathan Niloff, MD, MBA, vice president and CMO, McKesson Technology Solutions,...
View ArticleFHIR, the hottest topic at HIMSS16, sets stage for population health
The emerging protocol known as FHIR has been most closely associated with interoperability so far. The acronym, after all, stands for Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources. But if the standard...
View ArticleEpic, InterSystems take top spots for HIE and interoperability in new KLAS...
Epic Systems and InterSystems earned the highest performance scores in the field of health information exchange and interoperability in the latest study from independent research firm KLAS.A primary...
View ArticleTop 5 videos from HIMSS16
HIMSS16 provided countless hours of must-see video content for Healthcare IT News, from fascinating interviews with thought leaders and speakers at the conference to in-depth panel discussions and show...
View ArticleEpic CEO Judy Faulkner talks EHR interoperability, need for a national...
Judy Faulkner readily admits that when she founded Epic Systems she had no idea how to start a company. Faulkner discussed those early years as well as some of today’s most contentious topics including...
View ArticleAHIMA kicks off national patient ID petition drive
The American Health Information Management Association launched an effort to collect 100,000 signatures on a petition to ask the White House to address the need for a unique patient ID.While other...
View ArticleApple unveils CareKit health tracking platform, first app is for Parkinsons
Apple on Monday unwrapped CareKit and described the new software as a framework for building apps that can empower people take a more active role in their own care.Whereas Apple’s HealthKit is geared...
View ArticleNIH and ONC announce Sync for Science to enable patients to donate data to...
The National Institutes of Health and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT have launched Sync for Science, a pilot to allow individuals to send their health data to researchers with the...
View ArticleNovant Health becomes first to revalidate HIMSS Stage 7 Award for EHR use
Novant Health just became the first organization to receive HIMSS Analytics revalidation for Stage 7 Ambulatory Awards.“They have made great progress since implementing their EMR and remarkably can...
View ArticleBig data: Bold promise? Or the hardest part of population health, precision...
Seattle Children's Chief Data Officer Eugene Kolker offered up a confession: "I'm a little bit nervous right now about what's happening in our industry. People are moving from one extreme to...
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