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Highmark Verizon Pair Up on Exchange Pittsburgh TribuneReview

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Highmark, Verizon pair up on exchangePittsburgh Tribune-ReviewHighmark Inc. is preparing the first network that will allow hospitals and doctors across Pennsylvania to easily share the electronic medical records of millions of people. Highmark, the state's largest health insurer, said Monday it partnered with ...Highmark develops data-share networkPittsburgh Post Gazette all 16 news articles& » Read [...]

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Government EHR Incentive Program Ready to Go

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Registration for the Medicare and Medicaid electronic health records incentive programs opens Jan. 3, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced. Eligible professionals, eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) must use certified EHR technology to be eligible. The government has identified five Authorized Certification and Testing Bodies, or ACTBs. Medicare incentive program [...]

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Can Health Privacy Electronic Medical Records Coexist MillerMcCune.com

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Miller-McCune.com Can Health Privacy, Electronic Medical Records Coexist?Miller-McCune.com(Thinkstock.com) The stimulus bill passed in 2009 set aside $27 billion to encourage doctors to migrate their illegible handwriting and paper charts into the electronic medical records that policymakers and politicians have for years been saying could ...Don't bet on knowing your records' whereaboutsModernHealthcare.com (blog) all 2 news [...]

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Federal Panel Votes to Delay Stage 2 Meaningful Use by a Year

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The Health IT Policy Committee, an advisory panel to the federal government, is divided over the start date for Stage 2 meaningful use requirements, voting 12-5 June 8 to delay Stage 2 by one year – from 2013 to 2014. Since its inception in 2009 under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the EHR incentive [...]

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ICD10 Inches Closer to Delay ICD11 in the Wings

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The case for leapfrogging ICD-10 and holding out for ICD-11 just got a lot more curious. And though it’s not here yet, when ICD-11 is ready, it will be something ICD-10 cannot be: A 21st Century classification system. Now that HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has thrown her department’s hat in the ring, saying late Wednesday [...]

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The 'Miracle' of Digital Health Records 50 Years Ago New York Times Blog

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FPSnewswire (press release) The 'Miracle' of Digital Health Records, 50 Years AgoNew York Times (blog)Dr. Lawrence L. Weed is most widely credited for developing the first electronic medical record, the so-called Problem-Oriented Medical Information System (Promis), starting in 1969, while he was working at the the University of Vermont.IBM Commemorates 50th Anniversary Of First Electronic [...]

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Six Proven Technologies for Boosting Nurse Workflow, Care

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Six technologies have been named by analysts as having the potential to improve workflow and communication for nurse, while boosting patient care. The six technologies were highlighted in the article, "Beyond E-Health Records: Technologies That Enhance Care Delivery," written by Fran Turisco, research principal, and Jared Rhoads, senior research analyst, for Emerging Practices in CSC's [...]

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Survey: Point-of-Care Apps Accelerating iPad Deployment

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A survey of nearly 950 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) members indicates that iPad deployments are accelerating, in large part due to the mobile device's compelling point-of-care applications and uses. View full post on Most Popular Items from healthcareitnews.com Tags: management systems society, information, Society, iPad, survey point, healthcare information

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Four Public Hospitals Lauded for Their Electronic Medical Records Systems Channel News Asia

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Four public hospitals lauded for their electronic medical records systemsChannel News AsiaBy Mustafa Shafawi | Posted: 14 June 2011 1414 hrs SINGAPORE: Four public hospitals in Singapore have become the first in the Asia Pacific region to receive international recognition for their electronic medical record systems. ... and more& » Read the full story: Four [...]

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Patients See Lincoln Doctor's Retirement as Forced the State JournalRegister

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Patients see Lincoln doctor's retirement as forcedThe State Journal-Register16, told the Journal-Register in an Oct. 20 story that he had no plans to retire and that unfair treatment led him to falling behind on electronic medical records for his patients. “They did this to me,” he said. “They caused everything, as far as I'm ...Embattled [...]

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Social Media Tools May Reduce Attrition in Online Health Programs

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Social media tools may prove an effective way to boost participation in online health programs, according to researchers at the University of Michigan Medical School. Caroline Richardson, MD, associate professor of family medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School, and her colleagues found that adding an interactive online community to an Internet-based walking program [...]

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Harrington Lands $600K for EMR Adoption Worcester Business Journal

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Harrington Lands $600K For EMR AdoptionWorcester Business JournalBy Rick Saia Harrington HealthCare System of Southbridge has received nearly $600000 from the federal government for the implementation of an electronic medical records system, Harrington announced. Harrington is among 15 hospitals and 12 health care ... Read the full story: Harrington Lands $600K For EMR Adoption - [...]

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10 Startups to Bring 'Surge of Talent' to Health Apps

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Ten start-ups have been chosen as part of a development and mentoring program that aims at developing next-generation mobile applications for the healthcare industry. read more Read the full story: 10 start-ups to bring 'surge of talent' to health apps Tags: 'surge, Health Medical Pharma, Technology Internet, start ups

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EMRs Finding a Balance Between Billing Efficiency and Patient Care Commentary ... Wilkes Barre TimesLeader

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Wilkes Barre Times-Leader EMRs: Finding a balance between billing efficiency and patient care Commentary ...Wilkes Barre Times-LeaderONE OF the big changes recently in the practice of medicine is Medicare's push for physician's practices and hospitals to convert their documents from paper charts to an electronic medical record (EMR). Starting in 2011, medical providers are given [...]

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Saint Anne's Hospital Getting $667853 for Electronic Health Records Overall Fall River Herald News

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Saint Anne's Hospital getting $667853 for electronic health records overallFall River Herald News“The primary benefit is patient safety and quality,” said Dr. Harvey Kowaloff, vice president of Medical Affairs at Saint Anne's Hospital. Kowaloff said electronic record keeping could potentially save patients from repeating diagnostic tests. Read the full story: Saint Anne's Hospital getting $667853 [...]

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10 Most Outlandish Kinds of ICD10 Codes

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Although the debate over the delay of ICD-10 has been heated, if there’s one thing both sides can agree on, it’s the sometimes-hilarous specificity of some of the new ICD-10 codes. That’s why we asked our readers, tweeters and LinkedIn users to weigh in on some of the most ridiculous codes they know of. They [...]

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White House Calls for Health Data Exchange Standards

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The White House has called for a "universal exchange language" to enable healthcare providers to share health information in real time, in order to modernize and coordinate diagnosis and treatment while incorporating privacy and security of personal data. View full post on Most Popular Items from healthcareitnews.com Tags: information, exchange standards, time, exchange language, White, [...]

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Welch Records Upgrade a Priority Bennington Banner

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Welch: Records upgrade a priorityBennington BannerBENNINGTON -- Vermont's congressional delegation said Friday that the Vermont Veterans Home is on a high priority list to receive funding from the Department of Veterans Affairs to create an electronic medical records system. US Rep.Leahy, Sanders, Welch: Vermont Veterans Home makes short list for fundingvtdigger.org all 2 news articles& [...]

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Medical Data Storage at 'The Tipping Point' Albany Times Union

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Medical data storage at 'the tipping point'Albany Times UnionDoctors attending a conference about electronic medical records in Troy Thursday June 9, 2011. (John Carl D'Annibale / Times Union) Dr. Anneke Pribis of Galway Family Health speaks to doctors attending a conference ... Read the full story: Medical data storage at 'the tipping point' - Albany [...]

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Survey: Top 5 Reasons Providers Not Ready for Meaningful Use

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About 90 percent of healthcare providers that purchased electronic medical records technology are off track to meet their meaningful use implementation goals, according to the 2011 Black Book Ranking's user survey. Black Book Rankings is a division of the market research firm Brown-Wilson Group. Its user survey ranks the top EMR vendors for 2011 based [...]

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