Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)
Radiologists' use of an advanced search tool that aims at improving the way they retrieve and sort data from an electronic medical record has the potential to benefit many other departments, according to one of the authors of a new study.
The Boy Scouts of America, now celebrating their 100th anniversary this week, is now using wireless access and other forms of healthcare information technology for the first time at the 2010 National Scout Jamboree.
CDPH, a New York insurance plan, will invest $1 million in 21 area primary care and pediatric practices to participate in the second phase of the plan's IT-based medical home initiative.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will begin to make meaningful use incentive payments to eligible physicians and hospitals as early as May 2011, according to a senior CMS official, who detailed steps the agency is taking to start up the incentive program.
Cegedim, a global technology and services company specializing in the healthcare field, announced on Wednesday its acquisition of Wichita, Kan.-based Pulse Systems, Inc., a leading U.S. healthcare software and services supplier.
For Catholic Health Initiatives, a Denver-based health system with 55 acute care hospitals across the country and no electronic health record system, the challenge of achieving meaningful use will be "keeping the wheels on the wagon, so to speak," says Evon Holladay, vice president, business intelligence.
The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) announced Tuesday the launch of new CCHIT Certified programs in three specialty areas for electronic health records.
First up today at the first day of the Institute for Health Technology Transformation's summer summit: talk about meaningful use.
As we all implement Meaningful Use stages 1, 2, and 3 from 2011-2015, we will increasingly share data among payers, providers and patients. Protecting privacy is foundational and we should only exchange data per patient preference. How will we achieve that in Massachusetts?
On July 9th at Redwoord MedNet’s 4th Annual HIE Conference, the first publically stage multi-organization demonstration of Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) Direct standards and technologies took place.