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Health office clarifies conditions under which patient substance abuse records can be exchanged electronically.
SearchAmerica, a Minneapolis-based provider of financial clearing services for healthcare providers, has launched Collection Performance Advisor, an analytics-driven software platform that not only guides each account to the appropriate collection team or agency, but also monitors the performance of all collection resources and analyzes the hospital-wide results.
Starting an accountable care organization, or ACO, doesn't take full-blown electronic health records, nor does it require a lot of initial capital, according to some experts.
As part of the National Health IT Week, held June 14-18 in Washington, DC, leaders of the the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) urged Congress to make haste on meaningful use, without losing sight of what can be realistically achieved by the industry.
Electronic health records certified under a new temporary certification program outlined by the government are expected to be on the market by fall, the nation's health IT chief said Friday.
The Office for the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has announced a media briefing for June 18 on the final rule for a temporary certification program for electronic health record technology. The final rule will be published in the Federal Register today.
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) announced this month that five Golden State hospitals had been assessed administrative fines and penalties totaling $675,000 after it was determined they'd failed to prevent unauthorized access to confidential patient medical information.
The Certification Commission has selected two new, all-volunteer panels to develop criteria for electronic health records in women's health and in oncology, the latest domains to be added to CCHIT's certification programs.
The Office of the National Coordinator is finalizing the details and design of NHIN Direct, the health information exchange tool-set it is preparing to help physicians and small practices share basic healthcare records securely over the Internet.
MaxMD and Workflow have announced a partnership agreement under which Workflow will offer MaxMD's HIPAA-compliant email and data encryption capability as an embedded technology in workflowEHR and Workflow's other software products.