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• Chain of urgent care clinics boosts uptime

  A chain of rural urgent care clinics was suffering from network and phone downtime until it installed a cloud-based network "bonding" service from Evolve IP.  Continue Reading

• Big data in healthcare: What's holding everyone back

  Big data and data analytics open doors to precision medicine, population health and value-based care. But health IT professionals still face major barriers.  Continue Reading

• Developers using FHIR interoperability standard

  While still a draft standard, FHIR, the younger sibling of interoperability standard HL7, is already being used by developers.  Continue Reading

• Providers work for security in healthcare, lock down mobile devices

  With mobile devices proliferating -- and security in healthcare lacking -- providers are ramping up efforts to better safeguard devices and related apps.  Continue Reading

• Despite risks, healthcare IT professionals stick with mobile

  Despite the recent breaches making headlines, experts say that healthcare IT professionals should stay full steam ahead with the adoption of mobile.  Continue Reading

• Data analytics helps Maine HIE take next steps

  Maine recently implemented a data analytics platform on top of its state health information exchange, enabling Maine HIE participants to predict readmissions and ER visits.  Continue Reading

• Healthy prognosis for hospital wireless networks

  The growing needs of clinicians and guests mean IT departments must split their focus when managing wireless hospital networks.  Continue Reading

• Vast data doesn't have to restrict population-scale genomics

  With the combination of a SaaS analytical platform and a custom algorithm, Nationwide Children's Hospital is taking on population-scale genomics.  Continue Reading

• Industry shifts focus to health IT interoperability

  Health information exchange has yet to meet the expectations of some healthcare professionals and regulators. The ONC has a plan to fix that.  Continue Reading

• New tech tops health IT purchasing plans

  Health IT pros plan key investments this year in security, cloud and mobile technology, a TechTarget purchasing plans survey shows.  Continue Reading

• Security the focal point of buying decision survey

  Security, health data analytics, cloud and compliance are top of mind for those in charge of health IT buying decisions, a TechTarget survey finds.  Continue Reading

• Healthcare spending infographic: Security tops priorities

  New infographic details the top healthcare spending trends from TechTarget's health IT purchasing survey, with security investments a likely priority.  Continue Reading

• Open data group steps up from Health Datapalooza

  Chris Boone, new executive director of Health Data Consortium, is boosting group's profile from stager of Health Datapalooza to Capitol Hill player.  Continue Reading

• Meaningful use a mixed bag for development of EHR systems

  Most agree that meaningful use has driven the development of EHRs, but vendors complain that this focus has distracted them from improving ease of use.  Continue Reading

• In struggles, meaningful use attestation shapes EHR

  Paper-based medical record systems aren't gone yet, but they're waning as providers install EHR software and complete meaningful use attestation.  Continue Reading

• CIO John Halamka in intriguing EHR venture with athenahealth

  Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center's CIO John Halamka leads the hospital system into an unusual joint venture with EHR vendor athenahealth Inc.  Continue Reading

• Stage 2 woes may temper the effect of stage 3 meaningful use

  Although no curtain call is planned for meaningful use attestation, it sure looks like stage 3 reporting won't carry the oomph -- or rigidness -- of stage 2.  Continue Reading

• SERMO more than a social network for doctors

  SERMO, a social network exclusively for physicians, is a place for docs to hang out in cyberspace, but also to seek out and share medical opinions and diagnoses.  Continue Reading

• Poor execution of IT in healthcare endangers physician independence

  Two independent physicians in North Carolina experienced IT failures so severe that they reconsidered their solo status.  Continue Reading

• HL7 International CEO on developing health IT standards

  The CEO of HL7 discusses the lack of a national patient identifier and the organization's global approach to standards development.  Continue Reading

• HL7 chief Charles Jaffe talks FHIR

  In this Q&A, HL7 International CEO Charles Jaffe, M.D., says FHIR is moving quickly toward being a top interoperability standard.  Continue Reading

• Wearable technologies, cloud guide the future of healthcare

  The advancement of cloud, artificial intelligence and analytics will go a long way in determining the future of health IT.  Continue Reading

• ONC Annual Meeting turns from meaningful use to larger goals

  The ONC Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., will feature interoperability, population health, value-based care and other issues beyond meaningful use.  Continue Reading

• As HIPAA audits loom, most docs remain unprepared

  The HHS Office for Civil Rights will unleash HIPAA audits on some 550 healthcare groups and business associates. Experts give tips on how to survive.  Continue Reading

• HIPAA privacy laws more relevant than ever

  Healthcare providers that don't re-examine their level of HIPAA compliance could be caught off guard if they're subjected to a federal audit in 2015.  Continue Reading

• VNA systems market ramping up

  As meaningful use pushes image sharing to more providers and patients via Web portals, vendor neutral image sharing archives are gradually displacing older PACS.  Continue Reading

• Single health IT standard not feasible, says Doug Fridsma

  Doug Fridsma discusses the difficulties of uniting all providers under one health IT standard and talks about his move from ONC to AMIA.  Continue Reading

• Securing protected health information starts with HIPAA

  The term 'HIPAA' is discussed so often that it can be easy to lose track of what it was created to do. Learn exactly what HIPAA is and how to stay on the right side of it.  Continue Reading

• Solo doc's meaningful use attestation mostly pain-free

  Fueled by enthusiasm for technology, government-wary upstate New York family medicine doc becomes early stage 2 meaningful use attestation success story.  Continue Reading

• Nuance moves into medical image sharing

  Nuance Inc., after acquiring medical image sharing cloud Accelarad, is trying to marry the substantial customer bases of both companies.  Continue Reading

• Mobile EHR drchrono needs no desktop, server PCs

  Physicians looking to ditch their keyboards, laptops and servers have a meaningful use stage 2 certified mobile EHR that can be used on iPads in drchrono.  Continue Reading

• Who are the top EHR vendors in your state?

  Our interactive, color-coded map of the U.S. EHR vendor landscape ranks the top five companies, state by state, according to CMS meaningful use attestations.  Continue Reading

• Physical therapy mHealth app logs compliance

  A smartphone mHealth app drives patient engagement at home for physical therapy rehab patients, teaches exercises and logs compliance between visits.  Continue Reading

• SMS doesn't translate to secure messaging in healthcare

  Strict healthcare privacy rules make SMS messaging a tough sell to care providers. More secure messaging is needed to meet their expectations.  Continue Reading

• Clinical decision support tools still underused by clinicians

  A major challenge facing today's physicians is learning how to complement their wisdom and experience with clinical decision support technology.  Continue Reading

• Can you see me now? More providers make telemedicine investments

  Intermountain, Mercy make telemedicine investments as IT infrastructure. Plans encompass videoconferencing across many service lines, not one-offs.  Continue Reading

• Interoperable data in cancer registries key to improving treatment

  Greater interoperability between EHRs will help oncologists spend more time on treatment and less on managing their cancer registries.  Continue Reading

• Mobile devices, apps and the patient health management revolution

  Healthcare is in the midst of a mobile transformation, and recent research indicates there's no end in sight to mobile technology use in patient care.  Continue Reading

• Big data analytics make Lean methodologies leaner still

  Hospitals are on the right path, applying Lean and Six Sigma to reduce waste and errors. Big data analytics could improve the process even further.  Continue Reading

• Automated diagnostics: How supercomputers fit in radiology's future

  Imagine a supercomputer like Watson working in tandem with radiologists to deliver automated diagnostics. Our expert says it's already happening.  Continue Reading

• Meaningful use stage 2 driving PACS integration, imaging strategies

  It's not a meaningful use mandate, but radiology departments are preparing PACS integrations to move images to physician EHRs and patient portals.  Continue Reading

• Copy and paste functions in EHRs have worth beyond medical upcoding

  Use of the copy and paste functions in EHRs remains controversial, but it may not simply be a tool for medical upcoding.  Continue Reading

• Q&A: Challenges, benefits of implementing single sign-on in hospitals

  Seconds add up to hours when Chilton Hospital reduces login times through single sign-on technology. Learn about its implementation in this Q&A.  Continue Reading

• Pediatric care benefiting from the advantages of telemedicine

  Practitioners around the country explain how telemedicine technology has advantages that are improving pediatric care.  Continue Reading

• Audits mostly random, some chosen through red flags

  Need to know documentation to have on hand for a meaningful use audit and who's likely to be audited? Here's the latest from CMS's Elizabeth Holland.  Continue Reading

• Clinicians discuss pros and cons of point-of-care testing devices

  The growing use of point-of-care testing devices could improve the efficiency of medical tests, but some users worry about the quality of the devices.  Continue Reading

• Photoshop feature raises image integrity issues

  This reader feedback questions Photoshop’s role in radiology given integrity and quality issues.  Continue Reading