HIE Rundown 6-15-15
This week’s rundown includes DataMotion and Infor implementing direct messaging, eHealth Technologies and Orion Health announce partnership, and Spok, Inc. releases its latest secure texting app.
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CMS Announces Entrepreneurs and Innovators to Access Medicare Data
On June 2, 2015 at Health Datapalooza, the acting CMS Administrator, Andy Slavitt, announced a new policy that for the first time will allow innovators and entrepreneurs to access CMS data, such as Medicare claims.
Post EHR Implementation – 5 Things You Need To Do
By Glenda Wickus – Electronic health record (EHR) implementation, planning, training, implementation, scheduling, optimization, planning, implementation, implementation! These concepts seem to be the only words we hear buzzing around our heads when we talk about EHRs. But what about post-live? There seems to be a scarcity of conversation once the initial shock has worn off and routines start emerging.
Health IT Business News – June 10, 2015
The World Economic Forum Academy has released its video series on “Strategic Shifts in Healthcare,” including commentaries by leaders in the public and private sector on Big Data, mobile health, personal genomics, and consumer healthcare.
Spotlight on VITL – Vermont Information Technology Leaders
By Joanna Cummings – When was the last time you got excited about reading an article or book on technology? If the answer is “all the time” then consider yourself in the minority. Technology is the backbone that makes everyday tasks from online bank transactions to a Facebook ‘Like’ seamless, without the end user needing to know about how their data is collected, stored and transferred.
EHR Incentive Program Status Report April 2015
CMS has released the most recent numbers for the EHR Incentive programs. Here are some Program-to-date highlights from this latest CMS report – April.
How is the iPad EHR Transforming Care Delivery?
By Alex Tate – The use of mobile technology has expanded significantly, and according to the Cisco Visual Networking Index, by 2016 there will be 10 billion mobile devices in use worldwide. With the introduction of 3G and 4G, advances in technology have impacted and transformed service delivery and changed the way consumers access information and conduct transactions.
Hashtag Highlights from #hdpalooza
The Health Datapalooza conference was in Washington DC this week. The conference focuses on liberating health data, and bringing together the companies, startups, academics, government…
The Unfulfilled Expectations of the EHR and Clinical Communications
By Terry Edwards – Since the era of meaningful use began more than five years ago, healthcare providers have made great strides in implementing electronic health records (EHRs) within their facilities. The EHR market is now in the billions of dollars annually in the U.S. alone, and HealthIT.gov estimates that $22.5 billion in incentives will be paid to providers for adoption of EHR technology between the years of 2011-2022.