Politics and HIT
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0 Accountable Care Organizations: Revolutionizing The Health Care Industry
Jan 19, 2012. Health Information Technology, Implementation, Insight, News, Politics and HIT.According to a study by the Centre for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in 2009, healthcare costs have been growing at an unsustainable rate, reaching an estimated 17.3% of the gross domestic product (GDP) in 2009. This represents the largest one-year increase in the history of the United States. The CMS further predicts that if left unchecked, these costs could rise to 19.3% by 2019, almost one fifth of the nation’s GDP. The current healthcare system needs measures that will allow quality healthcare for all Americans at more affordable costs, a system that measures quality improvement through coordination and cooperation between health care providers.
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0 Healthcare Data Trends for 2012
Jan 17, 2012. EHR Profiles, Health Information Technology, Implementation, Insight, News, Opinion, Politics and HIT.With the growing popularity of exchanging information over mobile devices, 2011 saw data breaches in the healthcare industry like never before. The Department of Health and Human resources had to step in with rigorous investigations and hefty fines for organizations that did not meet the patient privacy requirements. And now that industry experts are projecting the continued rise in the use of mobile devices and social media, healthcare data breach could reach epidemic proportions unless the safety of patient protected health information (PHI) is given some serious thought.
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0 OCR Rolls Out HIPAA Audit Program
Nov 29, 2011. Health Information Technology, Implementation, Insight, News, Politics and HIT, Press Releases, Spotlight, Today.Contribution by: McDermott Will & Emery
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights released plans to audit 150 covered entities under its pilot HIPAA audit program. Covered entities should review HIPAA compliance policies and complete a security risk assessment to ready themselves for potential audit.
On November 8, 2011, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) published on its website the details of its pilot program to perform up to 150 audits of compliance with the privacy, security and breach notification standards (collectively, the Standards) adopted under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act) between November 2011 and December 2012 (the Pilot Audit Program).
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1 Jardogs puts the Patient in the Driver’s Seat
Nov 28, 2011. Health Information Technology, Implementation, Insight, News, Politics and HIT, Press Releases, Spotlight, Today.
While at MGMA this year in Vegas, I had the opportunity to chat with James Hewitt, CEO of Jardogs. The company, which was founded in 2009, is focused primarily on patient access solutions. While at the show, Jim mentioned that he sits on a CIO roundtable. A frequent topic for the group is patient portals, and specifically how they operate within communities. The group noticed that patients typically were required to use anywhere from 3-6 different portals to connect with the various local hospitals, multi-specialty groups, physician offices, and other entities that together provided their local care. This spawned the questions: How can we create a single point of access to allow patients to interact with all of the disparate systems within a single community? How can we take all the best features of a patient portal, combine them with a personal health record (PHR) and the components of a health information exchange (HIE), and roll them into one product?
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0 Vista Equity Partners Completes Acquisition of Sage Healthcare Division
Nov 18, 2011. Health Information Technology, Implementation, Insight, News, Politics and HIT, Press Releases, Spotlight, Today.
Leading clinical and financial information technology firm to be named “Vitera Healthcare Solutions”
Tampa, FL – Nov. 10, 2011 – Vista Equity Partners today announced it has completed its acquisition of the Sage Healthcare Division from The Sage Group plc in an agreement that was announced on September 22, 2011. The new company will be called Vitera Healthcare Solutions (Vitera), which will continue serving the ambulatory market with its current line of electronic health records (EHR), practice management and revenue cycle management products.Vitera’s industry leading products include Intergy, Intergy EHR, Practice Analytics, Practice Portal, STS, as well as the ground breaking Medical Manager practice management product. As one of the largest healthcare solutions providers in the EHR and practice management markets, Vitera serves more than 400,000 healthcare professionals including 80,000 physicians. Vitera’s products are also used by approximately 20 percent of all community health centers in the United States, and process more than 33 million transactions and 1.8 million e-prescriptions monthly.
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2 ONC-ATCB to CCHIT Certifications
Nov 18, 2011. Health Information Technology, Implementation, Insight, News, Politics and HIT, Spotlight, Today.At MGMA I had the opportunity to attend a great session on EHR certification presented by Robert Tennant, Senior Policy Advisor for MGMA and Alisa Ray, Executive Director of CCHIT.
Starting with the basics, Robert Tennant explained what it means for an EHR to be certified. To qualify for the incentives program established by CMS/ONC a clinician must be using an EHR program that is certified by one of the 6 certifying bodies named by ONC. ONC has set the minimum capabilities for EHRs. These minimums are directly related to the clinicians’ requirements for Meaningful Use attestation.
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0 CureMD Connects with Hospital Corporation of America
Nov 17, 2011. EHR Profiles, Health Information Technology, Implementation, Insight, News, Politics and HIT, Press Releases, Spotlight, Today.
Contribution by CureMD
CureMD Healthcare, the leading provider of EMR, PM and Portal Cloud, announced on November 14, 2011 the launch of its HIE connectivity with one of the largest hospital organizations in the nation, The Hospital Corporation of America (HCA).
HCA is the nation’s leading provider of healthcare services through locally managed facilities in 20 states and Great Britain and employs approximately 183,000 people. Based in Nashville, TN, HCA was founded in 1968 and is one of the nation’s first hospital companies. HCA currently operates 164 hospital and 106 Free Standing Ambulatory Care centers in 20 states as well as in Great Britain. Nearly five percent of all impatient care delivered in the country today is provided by HCA facilities.
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0 Securely Manage Mobile Medical Devices & Apps: A Healthcare IT Network How To Guide
Nov 16, 2011. Health Information Technology, Implementation, Insight, News, Politics and HIT, Press Releases, Spotlight, Today.Thursday, November 17, 2011
2:00 pm Eastern Standard Time
Complimentary Webinar
Mobile devices like the iPhone, iPad and new Android devices represent one of the biggest opportunities of the last decade to improve service delivery at the patient point of care. Driving the charge are mobile medical apps for EMR, imaging, lab orders and clinical decision support, with FDA 510(k) clearances for apps coming weekly.
But whether the devices are hospital issued – or BYOD owned by staff practitioners – healthcare IT needs an automated framework for secure device provisioning, app development and deployment, compliance monitoring, ongoing support, change management and retirement. Ideally the same systems would also provide “reasonable safeguards” for the protection of ePHI sent, received or stored by a mobile device in accord with HIPAA guidelines.
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1 RemitDATA Offers Enlightenment to Doctors
Nov 15, 2011. Health Information Technology, Implementation, Insight, News, Politics and HIT, Spotlight, Today.
EHRScope had the opportunity to sit and chat with Michael Sanderson, President of RemitDATA, while at MGMA’11 in Vegas. RemitDATA has been around for about 11 years and offers something quite unique to the healthcare industry. In a nutshell they are the leader in healthcare comparative analytics; they bring clarity and insight to the physicians.
Our main focus was discussing the TITAN product. What is interesting is TITAN isn’t just another BI (Business Intelligence) tool. They have partnered with the largest Healthcare IT companies, clearinghouses and PM/EMR/EHR companies in the industry. These relationships allow for the flow and exchange of market data. This data is what brings enlightenment.
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1 MGMA 2011 Annual Conference
Nov 14, 2011. Health Information Technology, News, Politics and HIT.
It’s been two weeks now since we’ve been back from the 2011 MGMA Annual Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, and we’re getting very close to having the EHRtv videos up on www.EHRtv.com. Building up to our video releases, this week, EHRScope will be covering the hot topics at the conference and reviewing some of the companies and products we had the pleasure of learning about.
Join us this week to learn what Provista, jardogs, CureMD, RemitDATA, Alpha II, TransEngen, VitalHealth, emdeon, and Pulse had to say to EHRScope at the 2011 MGMA Annual Conference, and for overviews of some of our favorite presentations at the Healthcare Innovations Pavilion.
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