SOURCE: FierceEMR Late last month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services began issuing Medicare electronic health record (EHR) incentive payments to eligible providers. For physicians who were able to attest their compliance with the Meaningful Use...
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Jun 7, 2011
The impact of EMRs often leaves many clinicians behind – struggling with lost or forgotten passwords needed to access patient information. A brand new survey conducted by the Ponemon Institute researched the economic, productivity and security impact that single...
Jun 2, 2011
SOURCE: QlikView QlikTech, a leader in Business Discovery - user-driven Business Intelligence (BI), today announced that its customer Centerstone Research Institute (CRI), a private, not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving healthcare delivery through the...
Jun 1, 2011
SOURCE:Â DST Health Solutions DST Health Solutions, LLC, today announced its patent-pending 3i event integration platform, which provides transparent access to strategic operational data by integrating real-time events from across a health plan. An industry-first, 3i...
May 31, 2011
SOURCE:Â FierceHealthIT Electronic health record systems are not designed to generate data for clinical research, and providers engaged in clinical trials may be using a number of different, incompatible EHRs. Yet a high-powered consortium of medical research centers,...
May 31, 2011
With a surge in remote monitoring devices, mHealth, developers are clamoring to build M2M applications that can transmit patient data in real time. Healthcare is quickly becoming a key area of this already-hot market. Download this whitepaper today to learn more about...
May 26, 2011
SOURCE:Â Hospital Impact A major hurdle for many healthcare communicators is convincing leadership that social media isn't something to be afraid of. Often executives can warm to the idea of having an online presence in which news, information and messages can be...
May 20, 2011
Healthcare information technology tops the list of top 10 ‘hot careers’ for college graduates in 2011, according to a new study from the University of San Diego Extension. Due to government initiatives in recent years, the study states, the healthcare industry adopted...
May 19, 2011
SOURCE:Â Hospital Impact One of the major goals of health reform and accountable care is to reduce hospital readmissions--and mobile apps have the potential to make this happen. Is this an overstatement? I don't think so. Mobile apps give people the tools to work with...
May 17, 2011
While pagers were once the lone option for mobile communications in hospitals, the rise of smartphone usage is changing the way clinicians, administrators, and others communicate. In fact, there are a variety of devices that now need to be incorporated into a...
