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Nursing informatics programs gaining ground
Hoping to fill a projected gap of some 50,000 healthcare IT professionals in the next several years, the Office of the National Coordinator’s Health IT Workforce Development Program is funding community college programs that can train IT professionals in healthcare and train healthcare professionals, like nurses, in IT.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is also projecting a 20 percent increase in demand for registered nurses during the next decade, and amid increased enrollment in nursing schools, nursing informatics is growing as part of the curriculum.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - October 26, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Anthony Brino Tags: Online Only Anthony Brino Clark Memorial Hospital Industry News Meaningful Use Vicki Vallejos Hospitals & IDNs Physician Practices Ambulatory Care Electronic Health Records Quality and Safety Workforce Management Source Type: news
Health plans embracing ACOs, boosting IT, study shows
Health plans are heading toward 100 percent participation in accountable care organizations (ACOs), according to a new study, with 78 percent of respondents already part of one, and 22 percent planning to participate in one. This is all leading to a scramble for health IT.
[See also: Health plans save big with HIEs.]
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Source: Healthcare IT News - October 26, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Diana Manos Tags: Online Only Ellen Donahue-Dalton Industry News Wayne Business Intelligence Payers Electronic Health Records Vendors Source Type: news
Center for Connected Health gets McKesson grant for mobile cancer program
The Center for Connected Health, a division of Partners HealthCare has been awarded a research grant from the McKesson Foundation to develop a text messaging and voice response program to improve pain management in cancer patients.
The research will focus on improving clinical outcomes in pain management and decreasing hospitalization, officials say. The McKesson Foundation's Mobilizing for Health initiative seeks to improve health outcomes among underserved patients with chronic diseases using mHealth technologies with a track record of success.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - October 26, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Mike Miliard Tags: Online Only Boston McKesson Mike Miliard pain management Hospitals & IDNs Physician Practices Ambulatory Care Vendors Mobile/Wireless Quality and Safety Source Type: news
Healthcare IT sector gets $ 194 mn VC funding in September quarter
The healthcare IT sector is witnessing a strong uptrend since the third quarter of 2011 and this uptrend is continuing for five quarters in a row, according to Mercom.
Source: The Economic Times - October 26, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
McKesson Declares Quarterly Dividend October 26, 2012
Source: McKesson News - October 26, 2012 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
The establishment of school based injury surveillance system in Jiangsu, China - Yang J, Zhang Y, Zhang X, Wu M.
This abstract is from proceedings of the Safety 2012 World Conference.
Background Child injuries have been a significant public health problem worldwide. Although information technology is becoming the backbone of all injury surveillance systems, many c...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - October 26, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Baseball pitch counts don't predict injuries: study
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - It's impossible to watch a Major League Baseball game nowadays - for
example, the World Series now underway - without hearing about how many pitches a player has thrown.
Source: Modern Medicine - October 26, 2012 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
Cold Weather Plan for England 2012
Source: Department of Health
Area: News
The Department of Health has published its Cold Weather Plan which aims to prepare for the effects of winter weather on people's health. It provides advice for individuals, communities and agencies on how to prepare for and respond to severe cold weather as part of wider winter planning. It is supported by a Met Office cold weather alert service that starts on 1 November and runs until the end of March 2013.
The plan, accompanying guidance and a series of easy-to-use 'action cards' for use by organisations, staff and the public, can be accessed from the link below.
Source: NeLM - News - October 26, 2012 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
Pharmica Consulting Helps Demystify Health IT
Pharmica Consulting, the life sciences industry leader in operational excellence, process, and technology, has been working with clients in the pharmaceutical industry to bring them current on the...(PRWeb October 25, 2012)Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/10/prweb10050953.htm
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - October 25, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Humber NHS extends Lorenzo EHR
Humber NHS Foundation Trust has extended the functionality of its Lorenzo electronic patient record, less than five months after the Trust became the first mental health organization to use the system.
The trust has been working to optimize the system and is planning and testing additional functionality to provide enhanced access to patient data for more than 600 staff across 55 different sites, officials say.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - October 25, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Jamie Thompson Tags: Online Only International Jamie Thompson Lee Rickles NHS Electronic Health Records Source Type: news
Payer Support Needed to Push Patient Engagement through Health IT
If technology helps physicians keep patients healthy, why aren't more using it? The answer may be that payers, including CMS, aren't supporting it.
Source: Physicians Practice - October 25, 2012 Category: Practice Management Source Type: news
MMRGlobal Readies to Ship Another 25 MMRPro Systems to Reseller
MMRGlobal, Inc. MMRF -0.60% ("MMR") today announced that it is already in the process of delivering the second group of 25 MMRPro systems pursuant to an agreement with a reseller of medical products and services to healthcare professionals as announced by the Company on October 1, 2012.
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Source: Healthcare IT News Press Releases - October 25, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Industry News Release Tags: California Favrille Inc. Las Vegas Los Angeles MMRGlobal Inc. MyMedicalRecords Inc. New Orleans Source Type: news
McKesson to Purchase PSS World Medical, Inc. in a Transaction Valued at $2.1 Billion
McKesson Corporation (NYSE: MCK), a leading healthcare services and information technology company, and PSS World Medical, Inc. (NASDAQ: PSSI), announced today that the two companies have signed a definitive agreement under which McKesson will acquire all outstanding shares of PSS World Medical for $29.00 per share in cash. PSS World Medical and McKesson’s Medical Surgical business will combine to form a leading provider of medical supplies, services and technology to physician and extended care customers.
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Source: Healthcare IT News Press Releases - October 25, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Industry News Release Tags: Florida Gary A. Corless JACKSONVILLE John H. Hammergren McKesson Corp. PSS World Medical Inc. San Francisco Source Type: news
Vendor Notebook: IBM unveils new analytics software
IBM has announced the launch of Patient Care and Insights, a new analytics technology based on innovations from IBM Labs that helps healthcare organizations improve patient care and lower operational costs by considering the specific health history of each individual patient.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - October 25, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Mike Miliard Tags: Online Only IBM Labs Microsoft Mike Miliard Business Intelligence Vendors Source Type: news
VA unveils plans to certify VistA for meaningful use
The Department of Veterans Affairs has laid out a roadmap toward meaningful use certification of its VistA EHR system, with a version that's being updated and improved in the OSEHRA open source community.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - October 25, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Mary Mosquera Tags: Online Only Department of Defense Department of Veterans Affairs Indian Health Service Mary Mosquera Meaningful Use Microsoft Vista Robert Kolodner Theresa Cullen Washington Hospitals & IDNs Electronic Health Records Quality an Source Type: news
Hospital execs slow to measure technology ROI
Most healthcare C-suite members are dissatisfied with their organizations' efforts to measure return-on-investment from clinical IT systems, according to a new report from Beacon Partners.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - October 25, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Mike Miliard Tags: Online Only Beacon Partners Clinical IT Systems Industry News Meaningful Use Mike Miliard Weymouth Hospitals & IDNs Electronic Health Records Enterprise Resource Planning Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Policy and Legislation Source Type: news
Hospital EMR helps curb hep C outbreak, but privacy concerns linger
Exeter Hospital officials say the organization’s electronic medical record (EMR) system helped identify patients infected with the hepatitis C virus and ultimately prompted the hospital’s notification to the New Hampshire Division of Public Health Services.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - October 25, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Erin McCann Tags: Online Only David Kwiatkowski David Kwiatokowski Erin McCann Exeter Exeter Hospital Fentanyl New Hampshire Ryan Lawrence The hospital Electronic Health Records Privacy and Security Quality and Safety Source Type: news
HIT Policy Committee Advisory Meeting; Notice of Meeting
This notice announces a forthcoming meeting of a public advisory committee of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. The meeting will be held November 7, 2012, in Washington, D.C., and will be open to the public.
Source: Federal Register updates via the Rural Assistance Center - October 25, 2012 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news
SAIC Awarded Contract by Defense Health Services System
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) (NYSE: SAI) announced today it was awarded a prime contract by the Defense Health Services System (DHSS) to provide ongoing sustainment, operation and maintenance of the TRICARE Online (TOL) system and expand Blue Button capability in support of the Program Executive Office (PEO) Clinical Support Division.
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Source: Healthcare IT News Press Releases - October 25, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Industry News Release Tags: California Falls Church San Diego Science Applications International Corp Virginia Source Type: news
3 reasons to adopt remote video translation
In an increasingly multilingual world, hospitals and healthcare providers must be able to communicate across a variety of different languages. Improved communications technology is making the world a little bit smaller for hospitals, translators, and their patients in their quest to serve limited English proficiency (LEP) patients.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - October 25, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Benjamin Harris Tags: Online Only Benjamin Harris Industry News Kevin Obarski Kevin Oberski TransPerfect video conferencing Physician Practices & Ambulatory Care Source Type: news
McKesson to Purchase PSS World Medical, Inc. in a Transaction Valued at $2.1 Billion
SAN FRANCISCO & JACKSONVILLE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct 25,
2012 - McKesson Corporation (NYSE: MCK), a leading healthcare
services and information technology company, and PSS World Medical,
Inc. (NASDAQ: PSSI), announced today that the two...
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - October 25, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Why physicians will prefer an iPad mini: It’s pocketable
The iPad mini, which is priced at as low as $329, is “as thin as a pencil”, according to Apple. Physicians, however, are likely more interested in the device’s other two dimensions: Since the iPad mini is 7.87 inches tall by 5.3 inches wide, it is the first iPad that can fit into the standard [...]
Source: mobihealthnews - October 25, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Dolan Tags: Uncategorized Epocrates Forrester healthcare tablets iPad mini doctors iPad mini healthcare iPad mini medical iPad mini physicians Manhattan Research physician surveys Source Type: news
Pediatricians increasingly favor SMS over pagers, but HIPAA concerns loom
It has been years in the making, but text messaging is finally overtaking the antiquated pager as a means for physicians and hospital staff to communicate with each other, at least within children’s hospitals.
In a survey of 106 physicians at pediatric hospitals, researchers from the University of Kansas School of Medicine in Wichita found that [...]
Source: mobihealthnews - October 25, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Neil Versel Tags: Uncategorized American Academy of Pediatrics HIPAA mobile health surveys pediatricians mobile adoption physician technology surveys text messages healthcare University of Kansas School of Medicine Source Type: news
British tech company courts carmakers for heart monitor seats
By Padma Nagappan
Falling asleep at the wheel on long trips or when tired is a common concern for drivers. To address this problem, a British company called Plessey Semiconductors has developed sensors that can be embedded under the fabric on the back of a car seat to measure a driver’s ECG as he or she [...]
Source: mobihealthnews - October 25, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: admin Tags: Uncategorized digital health carmakers ECG sensors Ford Research healthcare telematics mobile health telematics Plessey Semiconductors Toyota ECG steering wheel Source Type: news
Tapping body heat to power monitoring devices
By Padma Nagappan
What began as a diagnostic tool to find the best place to locate an energy harvesting device on an industrial pump or motor, is now being used to trap body heat and convert it into thermoelectric energy that can power monitoring devices worn on the body.
“One of our engineers placed it on his [...]
Source: mobihealthnews - October 25, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: admin Tags: Uncategorized health monitoring devices Perpetua Power Source Technologies personal safety devices TEG technology TEGwear ultra low power mobile health wearable devices WLSA Source Type: news
Dr. Daniel Von Hoff receives lifetime achievement award from US Oncology Research
Oncologist recognized for his part in advancing cancer care and research
Source: McKesson News - October 25, 2012 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
McKesson Reports Fiscal 2013 Second-Quarter Results
McKesson Corporation (NYSE: MCK) today reported that revenues for the second quarter ended September 30, 2012 were $29.9 billion, down 1% compared to $30.2 billion a year ago.
Source: McKesson News - October 25, 2012 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
McKesson to Purchase PSS World Medical, Inc. in a Transaction Valued at $2.1 Billion
Source: McKesson News - October 25, 2012 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Verizon invests in NantHealth to deliver mobile clinical data
NantHealth, a subsidiary of Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong’s NantWorks, has received an unspecified equity investment from Verizon Communications, through the telecom’s Verizon Investment arm. Verizon will help NantHealth develop a secure fiber-optic, cloud-based data infrastructure to deliver multimedia healthcare information to mobile devices, according to the companies.
“If we can stream a movie into a smartphone today, [...]
Source: mobihealthnews - October 24, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Neil Versel Tags: Uncategorized Blackstone digital health investment mobile health investment NantHealth NantPharma NantWorks Patrick Soon-Shiong venture capital Verizon Communications Source Type: news
Weill Cornell’s ChiP now accepts applications for new master's program in health informatics
Informatics is integral to solving the nation's urgent healthcare issues of rising costs and the delivery of quality care. Training the next generation of professionals to develop, implement and research new informatics technologies is vital. Through the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, the Center for Healthcare Informatics and Policy (CHiP) is now accepting applications for a new master's program in health informatics to do just that.
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Source: Healthcare IT News Press Releases - October 24, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Industry News Release Tags: Cornell Cornell Graduate School informatics technologies Weill Cornell Medical College Source Type: news
MGMA-ACMPE announces 2012-13 Board of Directors
MGMA-ACMPE announced today that William S. Henderson, FACMPE, administrator, The Neurology Group LLP, Albany, N.Y.; and David P. Taylor, FACMPE, FACHE, vice president Regional Services, CoxHealth, Springfield, Mo., will serve as Board co-chairs of MGMA-ACMPE.*
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Source: Healthcare IT News Press Releases - October 24, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Industry News Release Tags: Albany David P. Taylor MGMA-ACMPE Michigan Missouri New York Springfield Texas The Neurology Group LLP William S. Henderson Source Type: news
MGMA-ACMPE and SullivanLuallinGroup introduce web-based Patient Satisfaction Benchmarking Tool
MGMA-ACMPE, together with SullivanLuallinGroup, at the MGMA 2012 Annual Conference launched the MGMA-SullivanLuallinGroup Patient Satisfaction Benchmarking Tool.
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Source: Healthcare IT News Press Releases - October 24, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Industry News Release Tags: MGMA-SullivanLuallinGroup San Antonio Texas Source Type: news
Why The Numbers On Health IT Venture Funding Are Confusing
The Wall Street Journal’s annual pick of its top 50 start-ups caused a bit of a stir in a tiny corner of the health care industry--the information technology end. Castlight Health, which raised a record $181 million for a health IT start-up, got kicked off the list because “the health care industry in general has fallen out of favor with venture capitalists,” stated the author. Although there’s been an overall increase in health IT VC funding, Castlight was apparently lumped with biotech and medical device companies. In the same breath, the article mentions DNA sequencing company Pacific Biosciences, as well as Gla...
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - October 24, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Zina Moukheiber Source Type: news
CHIME honors John Glaser with Lifetime Achievement Award
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) Foundation has announced that John Glaser, CEO of Siemens Healthcare, Health Services Business Unit, has been selected as the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award.
The announcement and presentation of the award came Oct. 19 at the CHIME 2012 Fall CIO Forum in Indian Wells, Calif.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - October 24, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Diana Manos Tags: Online Only CHIME 2012 Fall INDIAN WELLS Industry News John E. Gall Healthcare John E. Gall Jr. John Glaser Siemens Healthcare The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives Electronic Health Records Network Infrastructure Source Type: news
Florida community wired up as 'living laboratory' for longitudinal wellness study
Wellness & Prevention, a Johnson & Johnson company, is collaborating with the Lake Nona Institute for an IT-enabled longitudinal research study to explore and test initiatives that could have a lasting impact on population health.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - October 24, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Mike Miliard Tags: Online Only Florida Industry News Johnson & Lake Nona Institute Medicare Mike Miliard Orlando Sanjay Gupta Wellness Prevention Inc. Electronic Health Records Vendors Mobile/Wireless Quality and Safety Source Type: news
MGMA: 11 ways to prepare for ICD-10 on the cheap
Think the transition to ICD-10 is just learning a bunch (a real big bunch) of new codes? Think again, Robert Tennant urged Monday during MGMA-ACMPE’s annual conference in San Antonio, where he laid out how physician practices could prepare on the cheap.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - October 24, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Stephanie Bouchard Tags: Online Only Medicare Robert Tennant San Antonio Stephanie Bouchard Claims Processing Financial/Revenue Cycle Management ICD-10 Policy and Legislation Quality and Safety Source Type: news
Meaningful use Stage 2 crunch starts now
The federal government may have delayed the start of Stage 2 of meaningful use by a year, to 2014, but that does not mean healthcare providers should relax in their pursuit of the intended goals of the EHR incentive program, namely better, safer healthcare at lower cost.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - October 24, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Neil Versel Tags: Online Only Charles E. Christian College of Healthcare Information Management Executives Dallas INDIAN WELLS Meaningful Use Methodist Health System Neil Versel Pam McNutt Republican Party Electronic Health Records Policy and Legislat Source Type: news
Bosch, UK university launch digital health lab
A British university is joining the growing roster of organizations formally researching the effectiveness of digital healthcare technologies and brainstorming further innovations.
The Institute of Digital Healthcare (IDH) at the University of Warwick in England is teaming with the university’s WMG innovation center and Bosch Healthcare to create the IDH Learning Lab. Also participating is Britain’s [...]
Source: mobihealthnews - October 23, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Neil Versel Tags: Uncategorized Bosch Health Buddy IDH Learning Lab Institute of Digital Healthcare remote patient monitoring Robert Bosch Healthcare Source Type: news
HHS questions GOP calls to suspend meaningful use
Health and Human Services officials, who spoke this week at the CHIME12 Annual Fall Forum, are pushing back against Republican questions of the appropriateness of the $27 billion meaningful use EHR Incentive Program.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - October 23, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Neil Versel Tags: Online Only Farzad Mostashari House Human Services INDIAN WELLS Meaningful Use Medicare Neil Versel Republican Party Electronic Health Records Policy and Legislation Quality and Safety Source Type: news
3 ways technology can facilitate patient engagement
As patients gain more access to their medical information and care providers electronically, the healthcare world stands to see improvements in patient engagement. Whether or not providers and patients can make the most of this opportunity depends largely upon the usability of these electronic systems.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - October 23, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Benjamin Harris Tags: Online Only Benjamin Harris EHR software Industry News mobile devices Sterling Lanier Tonic Health Electronic Health Records Source Type: news
QHC Congratulates CECity and PA Collaborative On URAC Gold Quality Improvement Award
QHC Advisory Group, LLC, is proud to congratulate its colleagues and strategic partners at CECity who, together with the Pennsylvania (PA) Collaborative have received URAC’s prestigious Gold Award for Best Practices in Health Care Consumer Empowerment and Protection. This top honor in the category of Health Information/Decision Support recognizes health care management programs that demonstrate quality improvement in the health care delivered to consumers. URAC is one of the nation’s leading independent healthcare accreditation agencies.
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Source: Healthcare IT News Press Releases - October 23, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Industry News Release Tags: CECity Gateway Health Plan Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Huntington New York Pennsylvania Pharmacy Excellence Pharmacy Quality Alliance QHC Advisory Group LLC Rite Aid Corp. University of Pittsburgh Source Type: news
Iatric Systems PtAccess For Eligible Providers Receives ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 Certification
Iatric Systems, Inc. announced today that PtAccess version 1.0.11, is 2011/2012 compliant and was certified as an EHR Module on September 25, 2012 by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT®), an ONC-ATCB, in accordance with the applicable ELIGIBLE PROVIDER certification criteria adopted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. The 2011/2012 criteria support the Stage 1 meaningful use measures required to qualify eligible providers and hospitals for funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
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Source: Healthcare IT News Press Releases - October 23, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Industry News Release Tags: Boston Iatric Systems Inc. information technology Joel Berman Massachusetts US Department of Health and Human Services Source Type: news
HealthStream acquires Sy.Med
HealthStream, which develops simulation-based education, training and research software, announced its acquisition of Sy.Med, a developer of credentialing technology.
HealthStream acquired Brentwood, Tenn.-based Sy.Med, whose clients include more than 115 hospitals and integrated delivery networks, for roughly $7 million.
Sy.Med OneApp, the firm's credentialing application, centralizes data and automates the credentialing management processes for hospitals, physician practices, clinics and other healthcare organizations.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - October 23, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Mike Miliard Tags: Online Only credentialing technology HealthStream Mike Miliard Nashville simulation surgery Sy.Med Hospitals & IDNs Vendors Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Quality and Safety Workforce Management Source Type: news
Huntington Medical Foundation Selects Allscripts for Revenue Cycle Management
Huntington Medical Foundation (HMF) selected Allscripts Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) Services to enhance revenue cycle operations, with the goals of increasing efficiencies of reimbursement processes and patient payments. Allscripts RCM Services will provide HMF with an integrated solution for the revenue cycle from front office solutions to back office processing collections.
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Source: Healthcare IT News Press Releases - October 23, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Industry News Release Tags: Allscripts RCM Services Allscripts Revenue Cycle Management California Chicago Huntington Medical Foundation Illinois Pasadena Source Type: news
Strong HIT market expected to be unaffected by election, expert says
Third quarter results of a venture capital (VC) study conducted by Mercom Capital Group showed healthcare IT remaining strong for the fifth quarter in a row, and the outcome of the presidential election is not expected to change that, according to Raj Prabhu, managing partner of Mercom.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - October 23, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Diana Manos Tags: Online Only Austin Election 2012 Industry News J.P. Morgan M*Modal Mercom Capital Group Raj Prabhu venture capital Vendors Mobile/Wireless Telehealth Source Type: news
Florida man pleads guilty to patient data theft
A Florida man pleaded guilty Monday to federal charges of illegally accessing the private health information of some 12,000 patients, as reported by the Tampa Bay Business Journal.
The article reported that Dale Munroe II, 35, was accused of stealing health information of patients who were involved in auto accidents in attempts to refer them to lawyers or chiropractors.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - October 23, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Erin McCann Tags: Online Only Dale Munroe II Erin McCann Florida Tampa Tampa Bay Business Journal Electronic Health Records Privacy and Security Source Type: news
At MGMA, uncertainty about the future of healthcare
A panel discussion taking place at MGMA-ACMPE’s annual conference in San Antonio Monday morning focused on the state of healthcare, with an eye toward the future.
Topics ranged from the upcoming election’s impact on the Affordable Care Act and healthcare reform to overutilization, but the most intense response came during discussion of the predicted doctor shortage and the practicalities of compensating for it.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - October 23, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Stephanie Bouchard Tags: Online Only Election 2012 Jeremy Lazarus Michael Douglas San Antonio Stephanie Bouchard Tennant Hospitals & IDNs Physician Practices Ambulatory Care Policy and Legislation Quality and Safety Source Type: news
Is mobile health about to enter a patent thicket?
By Orion Armon, IP Litigation practice group, Cooley LLP
Until now, the mHealth industry has experienced relatively few patent infringement conflicts, and little or no litigation instituted by non-practicing entities. But these trends may be disrupted within the next few years. Companies in the medical device, computer, networking, and communications industries are all patenting in the [...]
Source: mobihealthnews - October 23, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: admin Tags: Uncategorized AirStrip Technologies Basis Science BodyMedia Cardiocom CardioNet ExpressMD intellectual property Intellectual Ventures MedApps mobile health patents patent infringement lawsuits Robert Bosch Healthcare USPTO Wald Source Type: news
Health Innovation Virtual Summit – 23-24 Oct 2012
23-24 OCTOBER - For the second year, Intel is hosting the Intel Healthcare Innovation Summit-a free online healthcare webcast series that delves into the issues that matter most to health Information Technology (IT) professionals.
Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health - October 23, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
DrFirst Partners with Prowess to Provide Oncology E-Prescribing and...
DrFirst, the nation’s leading e-prescribing and health IT services platform provider, announced today that it has partnered with Prowess, Inc., a premier developer of oncology solutions. DrFirst will...(PRWeb October 22, 2012)Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/10/prweb10022141.htm
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - October 22, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
