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NewsHHS awards final Beacon Community grants
HHS officials today awarded $30 million in grants to organizations in the Detroit and Cincinnati areas by naming the final two pilot communities in the $250 million Beacon Community Program. HHS... Read more...
Build multiple levels of value into an EMR to produce ROI
Want a return on the sizable investment in an EMR? View the technology not as merely a replacement for paper charts, but as the basis for creating new capabilities within the organization, such as... Read more...
U of Missouri builds integrated EHR for long-term care
There are inpatient EMRs, ambulatory EMRs and EMRs for home health, but for some reason, we don't hear too much about EMRs for long-term care. University of Missouri researchers, representing the... Read more...
Los Angeles County approves $17M for EMR in juvenile detention facilities
Plenty has been said about the potential for EMRs and telemedicine to improve the woeful state of care in America's prisons, but juvenile detention facilities often get left out of the discussion. On... Read more...
ONC to give two more Beacon Communities grants
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology on Wednesday announced that it will give two additional awards, worth nearly $30.4 million combined, in its Beacon Communities... Read more...
EMRs at the Detroit Marathon
Last year, researchers from Henry Ford Hospital deployed EMRs for injury management and surveillance of the more than 19,000 runners in the Detroit Marathon. Working with physicians from Detroit... Read more...
EMRs to help NYC doctors keep tabs on high-risk patients
A pharma-funded program in New York City will help more than 1,700 primary-care practices with EMRs coordinate preventive care for patients at high risk for serious conditions like heart attacks and... Read more...
Leading CIOs question timetable, specificity of meaningful use proposal
Uber-CIO Dr. John Halamka, of CareGroup Healthcare System in Boston, is known for his workaholic tendencies, mostly in the name of improving healthcare through information technology. After talking... Read more...
Study: Current EMRs not good for care coordination
One of the goals of meaningful use and all the related federal spending of health IT is for EMRs to improve care coordination. But the current reimbursement system that's heavy on fee-for-service... Read more...
HIT progress 'stunningly slow' in 10 years since IOM report
Tuesday marked the 10th anniversary of the publication of To Err Is Human, the eye-opening Institute of Medicine report with the now-familiar assertion that preventable medical errors in U.S.... Read more...
| Press ReleasesFederal grant will help HealthPartners Research Foundation evaluate patient-centered medical homesTwo-year study will assess how primary care clinics transform BLOOMINGTON, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The HealthPartners Research Foundation has received an US Department of Health & Human Services Read more >> More Than 40 Health Systems Join Premier Healthcare Alliance Accountable Care Organization Readiness Collaborative to ImprWASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- More than 40 leading health systems have joined the Premier healthcare alliance’s Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Readiness Collaborative. Working together, Read more >> Seven Military Treatment Facilities Install CliniComp EMR Second Quarter 2010Demand for World-Class Enterprise-Wide Inpatient Documentation Solution Drives U.S. and International Expansion SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- CliniComp Intl., a global provider of mission critical Read more >> MDdatacor's Clinical Quality System Helps Hospitals and Physicians Achieve Meaningful UseMDinsight® Supports Quality Reporting, Data-Sharing and Multiple Other HITECH RequirementsATLANTA, Aug. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- MDdatacor, Inc., a leader in health care quality management solutions for Read more >> WellPoint Supports Efforts to Adopt Health Information TechnologyCompany Supports Meaningful Use With Incentive Alignment and New Hospital Financing ProgramINDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- WellPoint, Inc., (NYSE: WLP) announced today its support of Read more >> |
