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In the run-up to and in the wake of last week’s congressional hearings on potential Food and Drug Adminstration regulation of mobile health and medical apps, we have heard numerous alternatives to the existing FDA regulatory framework proposed.
Congress should give the Office of the National Coordinator...
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Mon, Mar 18 2013
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The HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology is passing management of the Nationwide Health Information Network to a coalition of public and private health care organizations. Via Modern Healthcare : Following last month's announcement that "now is not the time"...
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Wed, Oct 17 2012
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digiChart, Inc. has announced that the company’s electronic health record, digiChart OB-GYN™, Version 8.0, has received full certification by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology as a CCHIT Certified® 2011 Ambulatory product. digiChart OB-GYN is a single-specialty EHR...
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The Certification Commission announced today the first group of electronic health records (EHRs) to be certified under the CCHIT Certified® 2011 program for Long Term and Post Acute Care (LTPAC), which includes EHR use in care settings such as skilled nursing facilities, home health care, hospice and...
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AOD Software announced today that their software solution, Answers™ EHR Autumn 2011, which was tested on October 12, 2011 and was at the time in Pre-Market Conditional Status under the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology’s CCHIT Certified® 2011 LTPAC program, has since completed...
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Forerun, Inc. announced today their Forerun ED 2011.02 is 2011/2012 compliant and was certified as an EHR Module on July 13, 2011 by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology, an ONC-ATCB, in accordance with the applicable Hospital certification criteria adopted by the Secretary...
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CCHIT has provided comments to the Health Information Technology Standards Committee’s (HITSC) Implementation Workgroup on the EHR Temporary Certification Program, Stage 1 Meaningful Use. “Over the past five years, the Certification Commission has performed approximately 800 product certifications...
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We know how difficult it can be to keep up with ever-changing healthcare regulations. The newest piece to the puzzle is the government’s “Meaningful Use” EHR incentive program. What is it and how can you benefit from it?
MTBC strives to make your life easier by providing all the most up-to-date and accurate...
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Ok we had no doubt Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston would pass as Dr. Halamka sets the pace for the rest of us and their self developed system has been around longer than many EHR vendors for that matter . Dr. Halamka is the CIO for the hospital in case you may have missed any previous...
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Tue, Jan 25 2011
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From time to time I make an effort to provide announcements for those who support the Medical Quack blog either by sponsorship or advertising and last week, both E-MDs and Office Ally received certification in providing ONC-ATCB electronic medical records. Congratulations to both! You can find...
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Wed, Dec 1 2010
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With the recent news we may have been wondering where CCHIT, the body that has been certifying medical records would go and this is the answer. CCHIT will submit to be a certifying party along with others to work with medical record vendor to certify integration and functionality. BD CCHIT...
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Wed, Jun 23 2010
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Let’s face it, nothing else takes place until the bills get paid and yes we need to have certified EHR systems that work, I agree, but priorities here just seem to be a little bit out of order. The healthcare business is like any other with hospitals and doctors needing to project their income...
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Fri, Jun 18 2010
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The American College of Cardiology (ACC) created the PINNACLE Registry™, an office based quality improvement program based on proven guidelines. The PINNACLE registry was designed by cardiologists and integrates with Medical Informatics CCHIT certified EHR. One other smart move that you have...
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Thu, Feb 25 2010
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If you have been around in the medical records business a while, you have probably heard of NextGen who’s ambulatory solutions were one of the first on the market. As we continue to see mergers and acquisitions, here we have the ability to combine technologies and offer larger and complete Health...
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Thu, Feb 11 2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, EHR, Health IT, Mobility, Hospitals, CCHIT, NextGen, Quality Systems, Mergers and Acquisitions, Cloud, Opus