Health IT Pulse
December 2014
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Cerner-Siemens merger big 2015 story to watch
- News and Features Writer 31 Dec 2014 -
ICD-10 testing week numbers muddled by negative testing
- Content Development Strategist 30 Dec 2014 -
CHIME boosts political and business profiles
- News and Features Writer 29 Dec 2014
Cerner Corp.'s $1.3 billion acquisition of Siemens AG's EHR unit was one of the big health IT stories of 2014. Now, how the merged entity will fare in the turbulent EHR marketplace is one of the ...
Though they were part of a self-selected group that's likely ahead of the game in transitioning to ICD-10, the results of trial claims submitted by healthcare providers to CMS may brighten the ...
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) is flexing its political muscle and boosting its business profile. CHIME President and CEO Russell Branzell, in a statement timed ...
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FDA proposal would make healthcare professionals go online for drug info
- Content Development Strategist 23 Dec 2014 -
Review the cyberattack on Sony Pictures in light of potential EHR theft
- Editorial Director 22 Dec 2014 -
CMS seeks comments on proposed rule for ACO program
- Editorial assistant 18 Dec 2014 -
Half of patients in ONC-funded trial chose to conceal sensitive personal health info
- News and Features Writer 17 Dec 2014 -
Expansion of online appointment scheduling could lead to cost savings
- Content Development Strategist 16 Dec 2014 -
ONC releases federal strategic plan for health IT
- Editorial assistant 15 Dec 2014 -
Projection and reality clash in PwC, Health Research Institute data
- Content Development Strategist 10 Dec 2014
Concerned that patient safety is at risk in the current system, the FDA formally suggests the healthcare industry change the way practitioners receive information about any medications they are ...
When was the last time you talked to your company's emergency response planners? If you haven't done so in a while, make it a New Year's resolution to get a cup of coffee with them. Since late ...
Accountable care organizations are on the verge of receiving a supportive push from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to aid them in their mission of improving the quality of ...
Some 50% of the patients who participated in an ONC-funded trial withheld clinically sensitive data from some or all of their healthcare providers. The trial examined the effects of patient access ...
Online patients will make 986 million medical appointments in the U.S. in 2019, accounting for 38% of all appointments made that year, according to projections compiled and reported by Accenture ...
The passage of the Affordable Care Act and the increasing amount of professionals and hospitals receiving payments from EHR incentives had significant influence on the Federal Health IT Strategic ...
Despite PricewaterhouseCoopers predicting mobile healthcare to remain fashionable in 2015, there's measurable hesitance on the parts of both patients and physicians to use mobile technology during ...
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Presidential panel aims connected health at cancer
- News and Features Writer 09 Dec 2014 -
Medicare EHR incentive deadlines extended
- Editorial assistant 04 Dec 2014 -
RSNA 2014 draws more than 55,000 to Chicago
- News and Features Writer 03 Dec 2014 -
CIOs, ECRI Institute set their sights on health data security for 2015
- Content Development Strategist 02 Dec 2014
Connected health is one of the fastest-growing and most fascinating of all the health IT sub-categories, particularly because it has two meanings: it deals both with electronic, usually remote, ...
Hospitals will have more time to submit meaningful use data, receive 2014 program incentive payments and avoid payment adjustments for 2016. All of that is possible because of a CMS decision that ...
CHICAGO -- Welcome to RSNA 2014, the biggest, baddest granddaddy or grandmommy of all medical shows. Actually, the Radiological Society of North America Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting -- ...
Healthcare CIOs and hospital IT departments setting goals for next year are staring down a familiar task: maintaining healthcare data security on limited budget resources. A group of CIOs ...