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Doctors who go digital provide higher quality healthcare
(Springer) The use of electronic health records is linked to significantly higher quality care, according to a new study¹ by Lisa Kern and her team, from the Health Information Technology Evaluation Collaborative in the US. Their work appears online in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, published by Springer.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - October 17, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

DrFirst Partners with the Oregon Medical Association to Provide...
DrFirst, the nation’s leading e-prescribing and health IT solutions platform provider, announced today that it has formed an agreement with the Oregon Medical Association (OMA) to provide special...(PRWeb October 16, 2012)Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/10/prweb10020594.htm
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - October 16, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

Doctor's orders: Healthcare in the cloud
Judy Klickstein is a cloud believer. As CIO of Cambridge Health Alliance, a midsized healthcare provider just outside of Boston, she's excited about the efficiencies cloud computing can bring to her organization.
Source: Computerworld Health Care News - October 16, 2012 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news

Environmental Scan of Health Information Technology (HIT) Adoption amongst North Dakota Health Care Entities
Assesses the level of adoption of electronic health records (EHR) and telehealth; and health information technology workforce in hospitals, independent rural clinics, community health centers, clinical laboratories, pharmacies, long term care, and local public health units and departments throughout North Dakota. -- University of North Dakota Center for Rural Health
Source: Rural publications via the Rural Assistance Center - October 16, 2012 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news

Diversinet Receives FIPS 140-2 Security Validation, Marking First mHealth Platform to Reach This Milestone
Diversinet Corp. (TSX Venture: DIV, OTCQB: DVNTF), a leader in secure mobile health that “Powers Care Coordination through Mobility,” has been awarded Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 validation by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for its MobiSecure technology. read more
Source: Healthcare IT News Press Releases - October 16, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Industry News Release Tags: Canada Diversinet Corp. encryption National Institute of Standards Toronto TSX VENTURE Source Type: news

National Crowdfunding Association Partners with Avectra to meet the Association's rapid-growth needs
Today the National Crowdfunding Association (NLCFA) announced that it has entered into a partnership with Avectra, the leading technology provider to associations and non-profits. Avectra will provide the robust software solution NLCFA needs to manage its enormous growth. read more
Source: Healthcare IT News Press Releases - October 16, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Industry News Release Tags: Avectra CRM David Marlett NLCFA Washington, DC Source Type: news

Mobile health initiative expands with global focus
Healthcare providers in some of the most underserved parts of the world are slated to receive some much needed medical support after Health eVillages announced today a new initiative that will deliver medical education via smartphone devices to clinicians in these remote areas. read more
Source: Healthcare IT News - October 16, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Erin McCann Tags: Online Only Donato Tramuto East Africa Erin McCann Haiti Health eVillages HIV HIV care Kenya Kijabe Hospital Mark Newton Marlborough orthopedic surgery Physicians Interactive smartphone Mobile/Wireless Source Type: news

DSS donates open source search tool to OSEHRA
Document Storage Systems has released to the Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent an open source tool that enables clinicians who use the VistA EHR to search a patient's record for free text data that might otherwise be scattered throughout the chart. read more
Source: Healthcare IT News - October 16, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Mike Miliard Tags: Online Only Document Storage Systems Document Storage Systems Inc. Juno Beach Microsoft Vista Mike Miliard Hospitals & IDNs Electronic Health Records Vendors Policy and Legislation Quality and Safety Source Type: news

HIE opportunity knocks to play in SHIN-NY sandbox
Health information exchange can be a platform on which innovators build the tools that providers, public health departments and patients need – and, in so doing, plug holes in the marketplace, according to David Whitlinger, executive director of New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC). read more
Source: Healthcare IT News - October 16, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Tom Sullivan Tags: Online Only David Whitlinger Meaningful Use New York eHealth Collaborative Tom Sullivan Electronic Health Records Health Information Exchange (HIE) Policy and Legislation Quality and Safety Source Type: news

Healthrageous lands $6.5M in funding
Healthrageous, a company that provides digital health self-management tools , has received $6.5 million in Series B financing from North Bridge Venture Partners, Egan-Managed Capital, Long River and an undisclosed investor. This latest round of cash, which brings the company’s total financing to $15 million since 2010, will be used to further enhance the company’s consumer facing user interfaces (Web and mobile app), analytics engines and machine learning platform. read more
Source: Healthcare IT News - October 16, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only Egan Managed Capital North Bridge Venture Partners self-management Mobile/Wireless Quality and Safety Source Type: news

PhysBizTech and ADP AdvancedMD Webinar to Help Physicians Prepare for Upcoming Reductions in Medicare Reimbursements
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Source: Healthcare IT News Press Releases - October 16, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Industry News Release Tags: ADP ADvancedMD Anne M. Dunne Automatic Data Processing Inc. Frank Irving Grassi & Co. Healthcare Management Consulting Medicare PhysBizTech Salt Lake City Utah Source Type: news

100Plus app to highlight how small health behavior changes tweak life expectancy
At the Health 2.0 event in San Francisco last week, 100Plus, the first startup to leverage Practice Fusion’s data set demo’d a number of concepts from its upcoming app, which aims to help people get interested in the “small things” they can do to live a healthier life. 100Plus co-founder Chris Hogg told Health 2.0 attendees [...]
Source: mobihealthnews - October 16, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Dolan Tags: Uncategorized 100Plus CDC consumer health startups Health 2.0 health behavior change Massive Health Practice Fusion Source Type: news

Nuance speech tech goes mobile with Epic
Clinicians who use an Epic electronic health record system can now also use speech recognition technology on the go – on their iPhones or iPads, with the newest offering from Burlington, Mass.-based Nuance Communications. read more
Source: Healthcare IT News - October 16, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only Burlington iPads Jeffrey Westcott Massachusetts Nuance Communications QuadraMed Speech Recognition speech recognition technology voice recognition Electronic Health Records Quality and Safety Source Type: news

NY state accelerator commits $4.2M, enlists major providers as mentors
The latest in a growing line of accelerators for small digital health companies is distinct from many of the others in that it is backed in part by public money and the mentors are provider organizations seeking technological help in delivering better, more efficient care. It also claims to be the best-funded health IT accelerator [...]
Source: mobihealthnews - October 16, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Neil Versel Tags: Uncategorized Aetna Aidin Avado J&J Janssen Milestone Venture Partners New Leaf New York Digital Health Accelerator New York eHealth Collaborative NYeC Partnership for NYC Fund Quaker Partners Remedy Systems SHIN-NY UnitedHea Source Type: news

Elderly still not using apps for health, but tomorrow’s seniors might
As baby boomers age, many are taking greater control over their own healthcare than any generation before them, and mobile technology is be a big part of that movement. But today’s elderly might not be interested in gadgets and apps. “Seniors aren’t using apps for health,” healthcare technology consultant and futurist Mary Cain, managing director of [...]
Source: mobihealthnews - October 16, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Neil Versel Tags: Uncategorized aging in place Baby Boomers EHR integration GrandCare Systems Health 2.0 HT3 observations of daily living ODLs Source Type: news

Astronaut VistA 12.10 (Glenn) is Out
Astronaut 12.10 (Glenn) Astronaut VistA Installer Suite (Astronaut) is a easy install package for VistA. More information here. Latest MSC Fileman 1043. It is now located in routines directory no longer in patches directory. Latest dEWDrop based distribution with VA VistA patches up to early 2011 (thanks to all). Latest Enterprise Web Developer with easy to install yum or apt-get install ewd-astro (gets you all the way to a browser session) https encryption installed by default. Regression tested and bug fixes so that all the TMG goodies work (tmg-cprs, VistA-config).
Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - October 16, 2012 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news

Healthrageous scoops up $6.5 million to personalize health coaching
Boston-based Healthrageous, which spun out of Partners Health Care in 2008, has announced a $6.5 million second round of funding from North Bridge Venture Partners, Egan-Managed Capital, Long River Ventures, and an undisclosed investor. The health coaching platform company has now raised more than $15 million in funding, including a $6 million first round of [...]
Source: mobihealthnews - October 15, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Dolan Tags: Uncategorized Center for Connected Health Egan Managed Capital Healthrageous Highmark HopSkipConnect Long River Ventures North Bridge Venture Partners Partners Health Care Telcare venture capital Source Type: news

Olympic Physicians Case Study: Rural Health IT: Clinic in Washington State Uses EHR System to Improve Care Coordination
Describes how physicians in Olympic, WA developed an EHR system to improve patient care coordination within the rural health IT settings local referral network. --
Source: Rural publications via the Rural Assistance Center - October 15, 2012 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news

Behavioral Health Roundtable: Using Information Technology to Integrate Behavioral Health and Primary Care
Describes recommendations for enhancing the electronic sharing of information among behavioral health care providers. -- Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)
Source: Rural publications via the Rural Assistance Center - October 15, 2012 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news

Cardiac remote monitoring device BioMonitor launches in Europe
BIOTRONIK, a medical technology manufacturer, announced the European market release of BioMonitor, an implantable cardiac device for the monitoring and management of patients with atrial fibrillation or unexplained syncope. BIOTRONIK has developed ClearSense Technology with a three-vector signal detection that produces precise and reliable arrhythmia monitoring. The technology records three ECG channels converting them to one high-quality ECG input signal to clearly distinguish genuine signals. read more
Source: Healthcare IT News - October 15, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Jamie Thompson Tags: Online Only International Jamie Thompson Mobile/Wireless Source Type: news

Pariscribe bets on Microsoft Surface for mobile EMR
At $499 per download, the most expensive piece of software in the new online Microsoft Windows Store for the forthcoming Windows 8 operating system is a mobile electronic medical record from Pariscribe, a Toronto-based health IT vendor. It also is the first EMR built for the Microsoft Surface line of tablets that will hit the [...]
Source: mobihealthnews - October 15, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Neil Versel Tags: Uncategorized imaging apps Microsoft Surface tablets Microsoft Windows Store Pariscribe Pariscribe PACS patient check-in kiosk Surface EMR Windows 8 OS Windows tablets apps Source Type: news

ONC recruits members for workgroups
The U.S. Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) is recruiting (more)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - October 15, 2012 Category: Radiology Source Type: news

InterSystems and eHealth form partnership
Healthcare IT developer InterSystems and electronic health record firm eHealth (more)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - October 15, 2012 Category: Radiology Source Type: news

New poll takes pulse of HL7 profession
A recent survey of healthcare professionals who deal with HL7 integration, conducted by Core Health Technologies, finds some interesting facts about their use of technology, knowledge of programs such as meaningful use and strategies for information security. read more
Source: Healthcare IT News - October 15, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Mike Miliard Tags: Online Only Charlie Rogers Core Health Technologies CTOs HL7 Meaningful Use Mike Miliard North Carolina RALEIGH Regenstrief Institute Hospitals & IDNs Electronic Health Records Vendors Network Infrastructure Policy and Legi Source Type: news

New York partnership aimed at health IT innovation, job creation
Officials at the New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) and the Partnership for New York City Fund (Partnership Fund) today announced the creation of the New York Digital Health Accelerator (NYDHA), a program aimed at spurring health IT innovation and job creation across the Empire State. read more
Source: Healthcare IT News - October 15, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Erin McCann Tags: Online Only Erin McCann New York City Partnership Fund Paul Ryan The Empire State Development Corporation United States Electronic Health Records Health Information Exchange (HIE) Network Infrastructure Quality and Safety Workforce M Source Type: news

Allscripts names CFO as reports of impending sale swirl
Electronic health record systems vendor Allscripts, which is said to be shopping for a buyer, announced Monday that Richard J. Poulton will sign on as chief financial officer, effective Oct. 29. read more
Source: Healthcare IT News - October 15, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only Allscripts Chicago Glen Tullman Meaningful Use Richard J. Poulton Electronic Health Records Vendors Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Policy and Legislation Source Type: news

InterSystems and eHealth Technologies announce partnership
InterSystems Corporation, a provider of software for connected care, and eHealth Technologies, which develops imaging solutions for electronic health records and health information exchange solutions, have announced a new partnership. read more
Source: Healthcare IT News - October 15, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Diana Manos Tags: Online Only eHealth Technologies imaging imaging solutions Industry News InterSystems Corporation Medicare New York software Hospitals & IDNs Physician Practices Ambulatory Care Electronic Health Records Vendors Source Type: news

New York Digital Health Accelerator Is A Model To Emulate
One of the toughest hurdles for health IT start-ups is getting in front of customers. Doctors are reluctant to pay, and sales cycles at hospitals can take months. Entrepreneurs often inspired by a negative personal experience, and moved to fix the problem, find later that their product doesn?t fit the hospital?s ?workflow,? or offers no incentive for doctors to adopt it.
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - October 15, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Zina Moukheiber Source Type: news

5 not-so-easy pieces of MU Stage 2
As healthcare providers pore over the Stage 2 meaningful use requirements, they will notice a number of changes, tighter requirements and higher percentages to hit. read more
Source: Healthcare IT News - October 15, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Benjamin Harris Tags: Online Only Arcadia Solutions Benjamin Harris Dan Prevost Industry News Meaningful Use Policy and Legislation Source Type: news

TRICARE Awards Contract to Four Points for RelayHealth Medical Home Support Package
Expands successful patient engagement efforts within Army, Navy and Air Force Medical Services
Source: McKesson News - October 15, 2012 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news

Gary McKinnon medical report offers hope against US extradition
Study says British man wanted in US for hacking Pentagon computers could be very likely to attempt suicide if extraditedHopes that the computer hacker Gary McKinnon will win his 10-year legal battle against extradition have been significantly raised after Home Office-appointed psychiatrists warned that he would be very likely to attempt suicide if sent for trial in the US.The home secretary, Theresa May, is expected to announce her decision to parliament on Tuesday morning. McKinnon's mother, Janis Sharp, said she has been given no prior word about the likely verdict. However, the family has been shown a new government-com...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - October 12, 2012 Category: Science Authors: Peter Walker Tags: The Guardian United States World news UK criminal justice US national security Gary McKinnon Law Technology Extradition UK news Hacking Source Type: news

Paul Ryan's Congressional health IT timeline
Virtually every news outlet across the country is reporting on last night’s vice presidential debates, analyzing every nitty and gritty facet – from Vice President Joe Biden’s pearly whites and myriad interruptions to Congressman Paul Ryan’s aggresive H2O hydration and vague political jargon. Foreign policy, domestic affairs and social issues were among the most fiercely contested topics of the night. But just as with the presidential debates, one issue again unmentioned was health information technology. read more
Source: Healthcare IT News - October 12, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Erin McCann Tags: Online Only Danville Election 2012 Erin McCann Joe Biden Paul Ryan Source Type: news

ONC panel seeks input on patient credentialing
An emerging issue as providers and hospitals drive toward making meaningful use of certified EHRs is how the identity of individuals should be verified when they electronically access their health records. The privacy and security panels that advise the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) want to hear from the public about how the verification might work. read more
Source: Healthcare IT News - October 12, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Mary Mosquera Tags: Online Only bank Deven McGraw Mary Mosquera Washington Electronic Health Records Policy and Legislation Privacy and Security Quality and Safety Source Type: news

Veep debate: Healthcare fact twisting with feistiness
Medicare and Social Security comprised one of the nine segments in Thursday’s night’s fiery debate between Vice President Joe Biden and challenger Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.). The discussion had far more feistiness than the first presidential debate held one week ago, on every topic, not just on healthcare. read more
Source: Healthcare IT News - October 12, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Tom Sullivan Tags: Online Only Danville Election 2012 Joe Biden Kindle Medicare Paul Ryan Tom Sullivan Source Type: news

OHSU to put $1M to work on 'smarter' EHR
A $1 million grant awarded to Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) will fund research to address some of the challenges connected to EHRs and create smarter EHR systems. read more
Source: Healthcare IT News - October 12, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only Oregon Portland Science University simulation William Hersh Data Warehousing Electronic Health Records Quality and Safety Source Type: news

University Physician Associates of New Jersey, Inc., Signs Contract Renewal with MedAptus
MedAptus, the market leader for charge capture technologies, today announced that longtime customer University Physician Associates of New Jersey, Inc., (UPA), recently signed a five-year contract renewal for the company's Professional Charge Capture (Pro) software. UPA initially signed with MedAptus in 2003 to support electronic, mobile and compliant capture of physician charge data across more than 30 medical and surgical specialties. read more
Source: Healthcare IT News Press Releases - October 12, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Industry News Release Tags: Boston Charge Capture (Pro) Massachusetts New Jersey Inc. University Physician Associates Source Type: news

Specialty pharmacies positioned to play valuable role in growing accountable health care marketplace
More than 100 new CMS Shared Savings accountable care organizations have come online in 2012, joining at least that many ACOs in the private sector in a test of whether a focus on the health of a defined population can improve health outcomes and lower health care costs. As ACO providers search for partners to achieve better population health, specialty pharmacies are positioned to collaborate and bring targeted expertise in ensuring drug regimens are properly managed—for better health outcomes and lower costs. read more
Source: Healthcare IT News Press Releases - October 12, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Industry News Release Tags: Vital Care Rx Washington, D.C. Source Type: news

Open Systems Technologies (OST) Selects Compuware Changepoint for Professional Services Automation
Compuware Corporation (Nasdaq:CPWR), the technology performance company, announced today that Open Systems Technologies (OST) has selected Compuware Changepoint's professional services automation (PSA) solution to manage its growing services organization. read more
Source: Healthcare IT News Press Releases - October 12, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Industry News Release Tags: Compuware Corporation Detroit finance Grand Rapids manufacturing Michigan Open Systems Technologies Professional Services Automation Source Type: news

Vendor Notebook: Cerner, Nuance partner for voice-enabled mobile EHRs
Cerner and Nuance Communications announced that Cerner will embed Nuance’s cloud-based medical voice recognition into its full portfolio of mobile EHR solutions. In addition, Cerner and Nuance announced the integration of Nuance’s radiology reporting suite, PowerScribe 360, with Cerner’s RadNet radiology information system (RIS). read more
Source: Healthcare IT News - October 12, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Mike Miliard Tags: Online Only Athenahealth Continuum Health Partners Massachusetts Mike Miliard Nuance Communications The Boston Business Journal voice recognition Watertown Electronic Health Records Vendors RIS and PACS Source Type: news

Is Open Access Destroying Academic Publishers?
The digital age has given way to an open access renaissance - allowing for the free flow of information traditionally bound up in scholarly journals and academic publications. But when an influential analyst said that a European push toward open access could significantly hurt academic publisher Reed Elsevier's bottom line, many STM publishers took a second look at this model.
Source: EContent RSS Feeds : Research Center: Sci-Tech/Medical - October 11, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Robert Springer Source Type: news

Nashville Medical Trade Center a no-go
Blaming a “sluggish economy,” the developers of what was envisioned as a gleaming Medical Trade Center in the midst of a growing healthcare market, abandoned the project Thursday. read more
Source: Healthcare IT News - October 11, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only HIMSS Market Center Management Company Nashville Health Information Exchange (HIE) Source Type: news

Coalition to Launch Program to Test EHR Interoperability
According to AHA News Now, a coalition of 15 states, 37 technology vendors and 34 health information exchanges today announced a program that will test and certify electronic health records and other health information technology for reliable transfer of data within and across organizations and states.
Source: News stories via the Rural Assistance Center - October 11, 2012 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news

Nationwide exchange stands on its own
Marking a bridge’s beginning, ONC on Thursday made it official: eHealth Exchange is standing on its own as a non-federal, non-profit entity. read more
Source: Healthcare IT News - October 11, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Tom Sullivan Tags: Online Only Brian Ahier Department of Defense Social Security Administration Tom Sullivan Washington Electronic Health Records Health Information Exchange (HIE) Network Infrastructure Policy and Legislation Privacy and Security Quali Source Type: news

Coalition launches HIE testing initiative
A coalition led by the EHR/HIE Interoperability Workgroup and Healtheway, the newly formed public-private partnership of the eHealth Exchange, has established a program to test and certify electronic health records and other health IT to ensure interoperability and reliable data exchange. read more
Source: Healthcare IT News - October 11, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Mike Miliard Tags: Online Only Healtheway information technology Meaningful Use Mike Miliard New York Hospitals & IDNs Physician Practices Ambulatory Care Electronic Health Records Vendors Health Information Exchange (HIE) Network Infrastructure Source Type: news

Missouri medical group reports possible data breach
Officials at Litton & Giddings Radiological Associates (LGRA) announced Wednesday a potential breach of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which may have compromised the personal health information of some 13,000 patients. read more
Source: Healthcare IT News - October 11, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Erin McCann Tags: Online Only Erin McCann Giddings Radiological Associates Litton & Missouri PST Services Inc. Springfield Privacy and Security Source Type: news

Veeps tee up for debate, but will health IT come into play?
A recent New Yorker cartoon called “The Boys of Autumn” parodies the Obama and Romney camps as dueling baseball teams. The captions for the vice presidential candidates hint at the personalities that’ll be on display in Danville, Kentucky at Thursday’s debate: “Shoeless Joe with his foot in his mouth. The loyal backstop has a loose cannon for an arm.” read more
Source: Healthcare IT News - October 11, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Anthony Brino Tags: Online Only Anthony Brino Danville Election 2012 Joe Biden Michael Grunwald Paul Ryan Source Type: news

Alaska group lands $1.2M telehealth grant
An Alaska-based consortium is charged with spreading telehealth help across the nation with a $1.2 million grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), part of HHS. read more
Source: Healthcare IT News - October 11, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only Alaska ANCHORAGE Health Resources Kirt Beck TTAC Policy and Legislation Quality and Safety Telehealth Source Type: news

ZocDoc adds remote check-in for doctors appointments
Last week New York City-based online appointment booking site ZocDoc added its first new product since its launch: Remote check-in. On its company blog ZocDoc heralded the launch of ZocDoc Check-In as “the end of the clipboard”. The company said that making the tedious check-in process easier and remote has been the top request from [...]
Source: mobihealthnews - October 11, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Dolan Tags: Uncategorized check-in PatientPad Phreesia remote check in waiting room ZocDoc Source Type: news

Cerner adds Nuance voice recognition to mobile EHR suite
Kansas City-based health IT company Cerner announced this week plans to embed Nuance Communications’ cloud-based medical voice recognition into all of the mobile-enabled versions of its electronic health record offerings, including PowerChart Touch, which it launched at HIMSS in February. Cerner believes the voice recognition technology will help clinicians capture more complete notes when meeting [...]
Source: mobihealthnews - October 11, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Dolan Tags: Uncategorized Cerner EHR iPad apps HIMSS medical dictation Medical Dragon Nuance physician workflow PowerChart Touch tablet usability virtual keyboards voice recognition apps Source Type: news

Q&A: MGMA chief aims to boost reinvention
Susan Turney, MD, took the helm as president and CEO of the Medical Group Management Association one year ago on Oct. 12, succeeding William Jessee, MD, who retired after 12 years. Before MGMA, Turney served as CEO and executive vice president of the Wisconsin Medical Society since 2004. read more
Source: Healthcare IT News - October 11, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only American College American College of Medical Practice Executives Denver Marshfield Clinic Meaningful Use San Antonio Susan Turney Texas William Jessee Wisconsin Wisconsin Health Information Organization Wisconsin Medica Source Type: news