Health IT Business News Recap – March 10, 2013
This Week’s Health IT Business News Five days, 35,000 attendees, 1,200 exhibitors, 200 education sessions, one day of questionable drinking water. HIMSS13 has concluded and it…
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Social Interoperability
By Keith Boone, Healthcare Standards Every now and then a string of words will get put together, and peoples ears perk up, and you realize…
Clinton speaks at HIMSS
Clinton on Healthcare “There’s nothing wrong we can’t fix.” According to The New Orleans Times-Picayune, HIMSS 2013 will be the largest convention this year for…
Current Health IT Provider Boom Does Not Indicate a Soft Landing
Beyond the Boom Steven Heck, President of Medsys Group @MedSysGroup The thriving healthcare IT industry is no longer news. But, much like the real estate…
HIMSS13: Sequester Will Affect Medicare EHR Pay, ONC Budget
by Kate Ackerman, iHealthBeat Managing Editor NEW ORLEANS — There were nearly 60 education sessions at the Healthcare Information and Management Society’s Annual Conference on…
HHS Sets Goal of 50% of Physicians Using EHRs by Year End
2013 Agenda to Focus on Improving Care through Health IT Yesterday the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Marilyn Tavenner and the National…
HIMSS Annual Survey Shows Federal Health IT Initiatives Are Paying Off
Impact of Provider Investments in Health IT On Monday HIMSS released the results to their annual Leadership Survey. The results of the survey indicate that…
Leading Health IT Vendors Form Alliance to Advance Interoperability
Cerner, McKesson, Allscripts, athenahealth, Greenway and RelayHealth Announce Ground Breaking Alliance to Enable Integrated Health Care HIMSS13, NEW ORLEANS – Top health care information technology (HIT)…
Complying with HIPAA, HITECH and mHealth Mandates
Visit Axway at HIMSS Booth #5757 Complying with HIPAA, HITECH, and mobile health mandates: Four items to address By Ruby Raley, Director, Healthcare Solutions, Axway…