OIG report: EHR incentive program lacks prepayment, auditing protocols
The federal agencies overseeing the electronic health record incentive program have not included enough safeguards to protect against misappropriation of meaningful use dollars, according to a new...
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Policymakers bet on patient engagement in stage 3 meaningful use
Profile: Ed Burns
The Health IT Policy Committee's stage 3 meaningful use recommendations include some significant changes to the more familiar stage 2 rules....
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RSNA attendees hoping radiology IT will improve field’s prospects
CHICAGO – There's a definite chill at this year's Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, and it's not just the unseasonably cold temperatures made more miserable by the gray skies and wind whipping off Lake Michigan. Vendors have again crammed...
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Patient identification errors one of Health IT’s 2013 concerns
Profile: Alex Delvecchio
Health IT data mismatches, often caused by mix-ups within electronic health record systems, will be a concern for patients and providers in 2013, according to a report released by the ECRI Institute....
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And now, we give thanks for the future of health IT
While it would have been fun to post a photo of the Thanksgiving diorama the SearchHealthIT staff built in the lunch room – the Farzad cutout in the pilgrim outfit looked particularly realistic – we'll settle for giving you a few things we're thankful for as we pause for the holiday...
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NFL, eClinicalWorks call for EHR conversion
Profile: Alex Delvecchio
The National Football League announced they will convert from their paper medical records in a deal with eClinicalWorks, in which they will use the 0 Comments
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HIT Policy Committee releases stage 3 meaningful use recommendations
Profile: Ed Burns
The Health IT Policy Committee published its recommendations for stage 3 meaningful use rules this week, and in so doing provided a glimpse of the direction regulators are looking to push the health IT...
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Near field communication: The next cool (health care) thing?
When two smartphone users pass music playlists to each other by tapping their Android phones together in the hilarious Samsung S III commercial mocking Apple fanatics (extended version here), a jealous iPhone user waiting in line for the...
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Post-concussion observation focuses on telemedicine care
Profile: Alex Delvecchio
Telemedicine can be a tool for evaluating patients and providing subspecialty care to patients, as demonstrated in a recent study of a patient observed for post-concussion effects. Telemedicine care can deliver specialized...
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Insurers purchase HIE vendors to hedge against changing market
Profile: Ed Burns
The recent purchase of HIE vendor Certify Data Systems by insurance giant Humana raises some interesting questions about what kind of future health 0 Comments
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