Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)
During UC Irvine's White Coat Ceremony on Friday each member of the School of Medicine's incoming class of 2015 will receive an iPad as part of the school's initiative to provide students with a digital medical education.
Partners HealthCare Systems is providing clinicians throughout its integrated delivery network with mobile access to its electronic health record – a rollout the system achieved in 90 days.
Mac McMillan, CEO of Austin, Texas-based IT security firm CynergisTek and chair of the HIMSS Privacy & Security Policy Task Force, has some strong opinions about privacy protections in healthcare nowadays. The short version? Things could be a lot better.
The Medical Group Management Association is calling on the Department of Health and Human Services to withdraw its proposed HIPAA "accounting of disclosures" rule, due to the burden it would put on practices to provide such a report – and the possibility that it might deter them from implementing new technology.
The American Medical Association and 91 state and specialty medical societies have submitted formal comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services expressing concern over the proposed changes to the electronic prescribing penalty program.
John Halamka, MD, chief information officer at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, announced last week that he will be "passing the baton" as CIO of Harvard Medical School to a "new IT leader."
athenahealth announced Thursday that it has signed an agreement to acquire Proxsys, a Birmingham, Ala.-based provider of cloud-based care coordination services between physicians and hospitals.
The Department of Veterans Affairs announced Tuesday that it is offering a $50,000 prize to the first team that builds a personal health record using the Blue Button download format – and arranges to install the PHR on the websites of 25,000 physicians across America.
Jonathan Blum, deputy administrator and director for the Center of Medicare at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, says doctors see the inefficiencies in healthcare today and are eager to try accountable care organizations.
LodgeNet Interactive Corporation, which provides video-on-demand, broadband Internet and satellite TV to the hospitality and healthcare industries, announced Tuesday that it has reorganized its LodgeNet Healthcare group as an independent but wholly-owned subsidiary.