North Carolina

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Another NC Hospital Falls To Epic EHR Implementation Costs

Jennifer Bresnick | EHR Intelligence | November 14, 2013

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center isn’t the only North Carolina hospital struggling with poor credit ratings and huge revenue gaps after attempting the installation of an Epic EHR system... Read More »

CommonWell Chooses First Sites For Interoperability Service

Kyle Murphy | EHR Intelligence | December 11, 2013

The collaboration of health IT vendors has revealed its next step toward making interoperability  a reality for the healthcare industry, according to a statement by the CommonWell Health Alliance. Select provider sites in Illinois, North Carolina, and South Carolina will be the first to use its interoperability service offering, with additional locations to be announced in the months to come. Read More »

CommonWell Health Alliance To Launch Initial Interoperability Service Offerings In Illinois, North Carolina And South Carolina

Press Release | CommonWell Health Alliance | December 11, 2013

CommonWell Health Alliance (the "Alliance") – the health information technology (HIT) vendor-led interoperability effort – announced today that Chicago, Illinois; Elkin and Henderson, North Carolina; and Columbia, South Carolina have been selected as participating regions for its first rollout of CommonWell's interoperability services. Read More »

Docs File Class Action Lawsuit Over Glitchy Medicaid IT

Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | January 21, 2014

Among other issues identified by the audit, 12 of the 14 federal- and state-mandated capabilities had not been implemented by their target dates, including rehabilitation care pricing rules and the Medicaid pharmacy program. Read More »

For Docs, Hospitals And State, Growing Pains In Medicaid IT

Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | December 12, 2013

Five months after going live with some functionality problems, North Carolina’s new Medicaid information management system is still struggling to get up to speed, leaving some providers with headaches and putting pressure on a certification timeline, an audit has found. Read More »

How Billionaire "Philanthropy" Is Fueling Inequality And Helping To Destroy The Country

Prashanth Kamalakanthan | Truthout | August 19, 2013

Peter Buffett, the second son of billionaire investor Warren Buffett, worries that the state of philanthropy in America “just keeps the existing structure of inequality in place.” At meetings of charitable foundations, he says “you witness heads of state meeting with investment managers and corporate leaders. All are searching for answers with their right hand to problems that others in the room have created with their left.” [...] Read More »

North Carolina moves on health care price transparency

Bailey McCann | CivSource | August 21, 2013

Health care price transparency is a hot topic in state legislatures and in the health care industry itself. New measures are cropping up all over the U.S. Read More »

North Carolina's Central Regional Hospital Joins OSEHRA

Press Release | OSEHRA | April 26, 2019

OSEHRA is pleased to welcome our newest Organizational Member, Central Regional Hospital (CRH). One of three State psychiatric hospitals in North Carolina, CRH is operated by the Division of State-Operated Healthcare Facilities (DSOHF) within the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. CRH is a teaching hospital that serves as a residency training site for both the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University. They provide medical and psychiatric care to children in all 100 counties of North Carolina and serve adolescents, adults, and the elderly in the central region of the state.

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Small Town Mayor Leads 283-Mile Walk from North Carolina to D.C. June 1-15 to Protest Potential Closing of 283 Rural Hospitals

Press Release | The Walk to DC | May 23, 2015

In 2015, 283 of America’s rural hospitals face the very real possibly of closing down. To draw attention to a life or death situation for some 62 millionAmericans who rely on rural healthcare, The Walk will begin in Belhaven, North Carolina on June 1 and conclude on the steps of the U.S. Capitol on June 15. The Walk will be led by a most unlikely pair, conservative GOP Mayor Adam O’Neal of Belhaven and Civil Rights legend Bob Zellner, whose purpose is to keep hope alive in the rural town of Belhaven (pop. 1,687) and other small towns across the nation, as well as to encourage Congress to enact legislation to sustain rural hospitals.

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Study: Medical Homes Saved North Carolina Nearly $1 Billion

Christine Vestal | Stateline | December 30, 2011

The idea of medical homes — a method of coordinating medical services that relies on primary care physicians to manage patients’ care — has been around for more than 40 years. North Carolina, a leading innovator in the field, has used medical homes to improve care and lower costs in its Medicaid program since 1991. Read More »

The Next Open Source Frontier Is the Farm

By scaling precision agriculture technologies to smaller sustainable agriculture systems, it should be possible to make many more crops and growing systems economically feasible without compromising environmental health and sustainabilty. This could mean more locally grown, organic food grown profitably in more communities and accessible to more people at lower cost—a huge win for small farmers. And it could mean that change is possible in large-scale farm management practices as well... Read More »

The Open Government Paradox

In the quarter century since its creation, the Web has been a printing press and broadcast studio for millions of people whose voices would otherwise have been heard by only a few close friends. It opened a whole new world of sharing, and today nearly three-quarters of all Americans say digital technologies have improved their ability to share their ideas and creations with others, according to a 2014 survey by the Pew Research Center. That means most of us are opening to the public minute details of our lives—where we eat, who we love, and how we spend money—all out in the open for others to see...

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VistA and Other 'Open Source' EHR Systems in North Carolina & Mid-Atlantic States

The installation and use of 'open source' electronic health record (EHR) systems have continued to spread across North Carolina and many other states across the U.S., especially in the Mid-Atlantic region of the country. See the map of healthcare facilities running some variant of the open source VistA electronic health record (EHR) system in North Carolina and other Mid-Atlantic states. Read More »

With mHealth Platforms, the Smartphone is Just the Beginning

Eric Wicklund | mHealth Intelligence | June 6, 2016

Healthcare providers are investing a lot of time and money in enterprise-wide communications, and finding that the smartphone is a very versatile tool. Health systems are finding that an enterprise-wide smartphone platform is much more than just a cool way to give everyone a new phone...

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30th VistA Community Meeting

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
January 16, 2015 (All day) - January 18, 2015 (All day)
Location: 
UC Davis School of Medicine Sacramento, CA
United States

The VistA community is holding its 30th VistA Community Meeting at the UC Davis Sacramento Campus January 16-18. The meeting is going to be addressed by a wide range of speakers, from current and former top officials of the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), and Indian Health Service (IHS), to leading innovators for the Vista and RPMS EHRs. The goal of these meetings is to create a collaborative conference where VistA Community can network and collaborate, i.e., to share ideas and work, with the objective of moving VistA & the VistA community forward. UC Davis School of Medicine, is providing the facilities for the meeting.

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