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The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded grants to 44 healthcare organizations to improve access to healthcare in rural areas.
The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology has announced that EHR technology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston has been certified as a complete EHR under CCHIT's new EHR Alternative Certification for Hospitals (EACH), an ONC-ATCB certification program for installed hospital EHR technology.
"So the kid might be in daycare. The parent is at work. The nurse connects to the system. Let's say the doctor is on the golf course. He gets a call. But he doesn't want to leave. So he pulls out a smartphone. Three different people in three different places can join the collaboration."
Seeking to expand its suite of clinical solutions for unified patient information management, NaviNet, the biggest healthcare communications network in the country, announced in December its acquisition of McLean, Va.-based Prematics, a provider of mobile care management solutions.
In a move it says will save money and headaches – and which will be especially useful in the healthcare industry – HP has introduced what it bills as the first unified system to accelerate the reliable, secure delivery of software applications and services across heterogeneous environments.
Between tight healthcare finances and the swirl of government initiatives, the healthcare IT consulting business has never been better. It seems as if there are more challenges to overcome and higher stakes than ever in today's healthcare climate, causing both providers and payers to line up for help from professional problem solvers.
About 75 percent of Minnesotans' patient records are online, thanks to a user group that has connected eight of the state's largest healthcare organizations and is expected to connect two more within the year.
Congress has passed a bill that exempts doctors and other providers from the Federal Trade Commission's Red Flags Rule, which would have required them to develop and implement written identity theft prevention programs.
Mobile health applications will be distributed predominantly through traditional healthcare channels by 2015 as opposed to app stores, according to a global survey by research2guidance.
Norton Healthcare will use the Microsoft Amalga Unified Intelligence System and Microsoft HealthVault to aggregate and mine data for its Accountable Care Organization initiative.