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CMS, ONC seek feedback on quality measures reporting
The Centers for Medicare& Medicaid Services, in tandem with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, issued a request for information this week – wanting to hear from providers and...
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Mary Beth Mitchell, RN, wins HIMSS Nursing Informatics Leadership Award
Mary Beth Mitchell, RN, chief nursing informatics officer at Texas Health Resources, has won the 2015 HIMSS Nursing Informatics Leadership Award, honored for helping make THR a national leader in its...
View ArticleFrom security laggards to cyber warriors
Privacy & SecurityWorkforceData WarehousingQuality and SafetyNetwork InfrastructureCombatting apathy, ignorance and indecisionMac McMillanThe real enemies of good cybersecurity – and its closely...
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Community Regional Medical Center: Nurses' bedside tech can boost HCAHPS scores
When Community Regional Medical Center in Fresno, California launched an initiative to boost its Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems scores, the team combined leadership...
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AMA invests $15 million to launch Silicon Valley innovation hub Health2047
The American Medical Association has invested $15 million to become founding partner of Health2047, a high-tech incubator that will explore innovative solutions to some of the biggest challenges facing...
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GAO finds HHS lags in workforce management, is not doing enough to address...
The Department of Health and Human Services is not doing enough to manage its workforce programs, according to a recent report from the Government Accountability Office, the federal government's...
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MedStar partners with Uber to expand transportation options for patients,...
MedStar Health, the largest not-for-profit healthcare organization in the Maryland and Washington, D.C., region, is collaborating with Uber to increase access to health appointments.Patients can access...
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Athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush performs CPR on San Francisco sidewalk
Jonathan Bush, the high-octane, no-holds-barred co-founder and CEO of athenahealth, became Johnny-on-the-spot on Wednesday.While in San Francisco to attend the annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference,...
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HIMSS Big Data & Healthcare Analytics Forum: call for proposals
Healthcare IT News and HIMSS are accepting speaking proposals for the Big Data & Healthcare Analytics Forum, which will be presented June 14-15 in San Francisco.The deadline for submissions is Feb....
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CHIME, HeroX launch $1 million patient identifier challenge, turn to private...
CHIME on Tuesday, through a partnership with SpaceX-affiliated crowdfunding site HeroX, launched a $1 million patient identification contest in the hope that private industry can fix the safety risks...
View ArticleKey to predictive analytics in population health: planning and flexibility
While the development of accurate predictive analytics has the potential to head off debilitating and costly conditions among patients, one veteran of the burgeoning field says it’s important not to...
View Article4 key takeaways from CDC survey on EHR uptake by physicians
Physician adoption of electronic health records rose steadily between 2013 and 2014, with nearly 75 percent of doctors going digital, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s...
View ArticleEvidence-based practice underutilized, hospitals fall short on performance,...
More than one-third of hospitals aren't meeting National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators performance metrics, a new Ohio State University study on chief nurse executives finds.At the same time,...
View ArticlePrecision medicine driven by patient data, molecular information, HIMSS16...
As the industry moves toward data-driven medicine clinicians are going to need more decision support tools than in the past."Medicine has always strived to be data driven," said Gaurav Singal, MD, a...
View ArticleAmerican Hospital Association sends concerns to CMS over new electronic...
The American Hospital Association has sent a list of demands the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services before the federal agency creates new rules surrounding electronic quality reporting...
View ArticleGetting more value from electronic health records
Electronic Health RecordsQuality and SafetyClinicalAnalyticsFinancial/Revenue Cycle ManagementDeveloping an organizational culture that is data-driven, from top to bottom, is key.Marc ProbstElectronic...
View ArticleElectronic health records trim odds of hospital-acquired infections, other...
A recent study funded by Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality suggests that patients with fully electronic health records experienced fewer adverse events such as hospital-acquired infections.In...
View ArticleQuality measures aligned by CMS, AHIP to ease reporting headaches
For the first time, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and America's Health Insurance Plans have announced standard quality measures among payers, a move designed to reduce confusion and...
View ArticleReport calls out weak FDA stance on medical device cybersecurity, favors...
A report this week from the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology, a bipartisan collaborative meant to bridge the gap between federal agencies and private-sector leaders in the interest of...
View ArticleSA Ignite to debut PQRS Assistant at HIMSS16, hopes to automate real-time...
SA Ignite plans to launch PQRS Assistant, a system that provides an automated way for provider organizations to track the various levels and scores for Medicare Part B payments, at HIMSS16.The...
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