Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel’s long-awaited (in health IT circles, anyway) decision on the Department of Defense ’s core health IT system has been made. The VA’s VistA system is out as the preferred DoD. Unless it’s not. I’ll explain. Big data: None read more Read More...
Posted to
News
by
Latest Blog Entries for heathcareitnews.com
on
Thu, Jun 6 2013
Filed under:
Filed under: Industry News, electronic health records, Policy and Legislation, Congress, Epic, Department of Defense, Chuck Hagel, Frank Kendall, Judy Faulkner, Microsoft Vista
In less than two years we have gone from Accountable Care Organization (ACO) as a concept, to ACO as a new model of care delivery. With the January announcement that there were 106 more added to the Medicare ACO program, … Continue reading →
Posted to
News
by
Chilmark Research
on
Fri, Feb 22 2013
Filed under:
Filed under: CMS, EHR, health information exchange, ACO, consumer health, Acquisition, Analytics, Connected Health, Epic, Cerner, consumer engagement, Aetna, McKesson, RelayHealth, CareEvolution
The software lobby’s pitch to the health care industry, and to Congress, was that health care would receive not only the $19 billion to be provided by the government for health care digitization, but that the shift to electronic records would result in huge health care savings. Four years after...
Posted to
News
by
Health IT Law Blog
on
Thu, Feb 21 2013
Filed under:
Filed under: news, EHR, Healthcare, ARRA, Economic Stimulus, electronic health records, Articles, Health care, Allscripts, health data, HITECH Act, Privacy & Security, vendor, athenahealth, Epic, Cerner, Incentive, Republican, Lobbying, Obama, Higher education, Higher Ed, electronic records, profit, digital medical records, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society EHR Vendor Association, windfall, Glen Tullman, Democrat, lobby, lobbyist, Neal Patterson
Just as Healtheway looks to ween itself off the federal gravy train, Surescripts comes along and in a couple of quick strokes looks ready to a stake into the heart of Healtheway or at least any desire Healtheway may have to become the Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN). It all started when...
Posted to
News
by
Chilmark Research
on
Tue, Nov 20 2012
Filed under:
Filed under: Meaningful Use, EHR, HIT, HIE, cloud computing, ACO, Stage 2, Epic, GE, Surescripts, Kryptiq, NextGen, eHealth Initiative, Healtheway, NwHIN
You want irony? Try this: the Kaiser Family Foundation reports that we women are the ones make the health care choices for the kids in 8 out of 10 families. Yet women are far and away the minority gender in the world of health IT leaders. Health IT is one of the most important segments of health care...
Posted to
News
by
Latest Blog Entries for heathcareitnews.com
on
Tue, Feb 21 2012
Filed under:
Filed under: Industry News, electronic health records, Quality and Safety, Mobile/Wireless, Epic, Regina Holliday, CellScope Inc., Judith Faulkner, care for kidney cancer, Susannah Fox, rubber
Enterprise software behemoth SAP is developing an EMR app for hospitals, according to a report over at ZDNet. The company plans to make the app commercially available at the end of October. An Android version is set to follow sometime next year.
SAP unveiled the app, which has been in development for...
Posted to
News
by
mobihealthnews
on
Tue, Sep 6 2011
Filed under:
Filed under: Uncategorized, EMR, Epic, GE, DrChrono, ClearPractice, Centricity Advance Mobile, Epic Canto iPad app, Eden, SAP
As part of the process of setting our broader research agenda at Chilmark Research, we do a significant amount of secondary research combined with more limited, but highly focused primary research. We use this research to identify the “white spaces” where there appears to be a demand for...
Posted to
News
by
Chilmark Research
on
Thu, Aug 25 2011
Filed under:
Filed under: EHR, HIE, Patient Engagement, HealthVault, Health Portals, microsoft, Centricity, ACO, consumer health, PHP, Dossia, Epic, mHealth, WellDoc, patient portals, Intuit Health, My Chart, MEDSEEK
A little over a week ago Google stated that it was putting a stake through the heart of their personal health platform (PHP) Google Health. We at Chilmark had been expecting this for some time, it was just a manner of when it would become official. Thus, we were somewhat taken aback by all the [...]
Posted to
News
by
Chilmark Research
on
Tue, Jul 5 2011
Filed under:
Filed under: HealthVault, microsoft, google, PHR, consumer health, Google Health, PHP, Dossia, Epic, Cerner, GE
Encore Health Resources is an Epic certified partner so this makes sense since the hospital is using Epic and last year went full force with the Epic Revenue cycle Suite. Computerized Physician Order Entry is the tricky or complex part of the solution. When you look at the career page of...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
by
The Medical Quack
on
Tue, Feb 22 2011
Filed under:
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Medical Records, Health IT, Tenet, Hospitals, integration, Epic, aggregation, CPOE, Cedar Sinai Health, Encore Health Resources, computerized physician order entry, CS-Link