Just as I clarified last week in my post about Certification, the answer to the question “do we need more or less healthcare IT regulation and legislation” is that we need the right amount of the right regulations/legislation. Sometimes when clinicians prescribe medication, although it does therapeutic good, it creates side effects which need to be addressed by changing a dose or by adding additional medications. Such is the case with HITECH. It was generally good medicine, but now that we’ve seen the side effects on workflow, clinician burden, and efficiency, there needs to be a dose adjustment...
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An Appetite For Change In EMR Market
Mike Miliard | Healthcare IT News | August 26, 2014
One of every four outpatient systems is eyed for replacement, says KLAS, which also looks at hospital space in wake of Cerner/Siemens deal ...
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Athenahealth Announces Acquisition Of RazorInsights
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Athenahealth, RazorInsights, Bluff Point Associates |
January 14, 2015
athenahealth, Inc. (Nasdaq:ATHN), a leading provider of cloud-based services and mobile applications for medical groups and health systems, today announced it will acquire RazorInsights, a leader in cloud-based electronic health record (EHR) and financial solutions for rural, critical access and community hospitals...
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Do Epic And Interoperability Interface? Depends On Whom You Ask
Erin McCann | Healthcare IT News | December 12, 2014
The nation’s largest electronic medical record vendor has an image problem. Verona, Wis.-based Epic has come under fire this year over its lack of interoperability, spurring the company, once well known for its mum relationship with the press, to speak up...
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Do We Need More or Less Healthcare IT Regulation and Legislation?
By John D. Halamka, MD | July 13, 2016
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Edmond Scientific’s Practice Director, Tony Mallia Presents At The OSEHRA Summit
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KLAS |
December 17, 2012
Dissatisfaction with EMR performance and economic challenges cause community hospitals to question EMR selection Read More »
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Ever-bigger HIT silos might be the result of ACO buildup
Ken Terry | Fierce Health IT | October 15, 2011
The recent KLAS report on how providers are grappling with accountable care organizations shows that no single IT vendor can provide a complete ACO solution. Read More »
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Halamka's Report on the Joint HIT Standards and Policy Committee Meeting
By John D. Halamka, MD | October 11, 2015
All the members of the ONC Federal Advisory Committees met in Washington to review delivery system reform and the Interoperability Roadmap. We began the meeting with a thank you to Jodi Daniel, who will be leaving ONC after 10 years of service. Elizabeth Holland presented a data update on the Meaningful Use program. She noted that 2015 attestation will open Jan 4, 2016-Feb 29, 2016. The Meaningful Use Stage 2 final rule has not yet been released (but rumor suggests it may be released later today). Next, Karen DeSalvo presented a Delivery System Reform Update setting the context for the kinds of interoperability needed in the future as fee for service is replaced by population-based payment.
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High Turnover of EHR Vendors According to KLAS Report
Joseph Conn | ModernHealthcare.com | July 18, 2012
The game is still afoot for a swarm of electronic health-record system developers—in particular those that don't have the best-known brands, according to the latest report from KLAS Enterprises on the ambulatory EHR market. Read More »
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Hospital Choosing EMRs/EHRs Based on Integrated Options
Katherine Rourke | Hospital EMR and EHR | August 5, 2011
For quite some time, hospitals have chosen to patch together existing systems and link them to their new, fancy EMR/EHR system. But lately, EMRs that offer better end-to-end integration are beginning to be hospitals’ first choices, according to research released last month by healthcare vendor research firm KLAS. Read More »
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How Closed EHR Records Cause Paralysis
By Edmund Billings, MD | October 30, 2014
Take a step back from the challenges that surround health information technology (HIT) interoperability and you will recognize that market forces and a desperately fragmented health care system make hospitals and vendors act the way we do...The predominant proprietary HIT vendors know about the interoperability gap yet engage in prolonged foot-dragging on even basic data interfacing. Read More »
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How Cyber Hardening Can Protect Patient Privacy And Treatment
By Lisa Silverman | November 29, 2018
The abundance of internet-connected devices that collect and share patient data has greatly increased the “attack surface” (where an attacker inserts or extracts data) and number of possible vulnerabilities within a system. Now that medical devices can connect to home-based routers, public Wi-Fi or cellular networks to relay data to hospitals, specialists, and care providers. In addition, the software in those devices lacks cybersecurity and can be updated and reprogrammed remotely. Thus, sensitive patient information is even more prone to data breaches, and the safety of the devices can be compromised. Recent supply chain compromises, and the migration of health applications and platforms to the cloud, also add to the threat equation. This article looks at why the medical community is so vulnerable and suggests how it can better protect life-saving equipment and sensitive data from unprecedented cyberattacks.
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KLAS Reports on Commercial EHR Systems
Bernie Monegain | Healthcare IT News | June 6, 2013
A new KLAS report, its first on ambulatory electronic medical record usability, finds that success in achieving high usability ranges from 85 percent to 55 percent. Read More »
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More Electronic Health Record Systems Than You Imagined
Joseph Conn | ModernHealthcare.com | July 19, 2012
I had no idea. There is simply a horde, a herd, a whole Wild West stampede of electronic health-record systems out there....[Earlier] this month, Jodi Daniel, director of the Office of Policy and Research within the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, presented a slide at an Health Information Technology Policy Committee meeting with some health IT market numbers that I found nothing short of astonishing. Read More »
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New Consulting Company Exsede Brings Unparalleled Expertise To Meet Critical Demand For Healthcare IT
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Exsede |
October 5, 2012
New Consulting Company Exsede Brings Unparalleled Expertise to Meet Critical Demand for Healthcare IT Read More »
Study: Half of Large Hospitals Looking to Make New EHR Purchase
Greg Slabodkin | Health Data Management | February 28, 2014
By 2016, nearly half of U.S. large hospitals (200 or more beds) will be making a new EHR purchase, finds a new report from Orem, Utah-based KLAS. Nevertheless, only 22 percent of those buying decisions "may still be up for grabs," according to an announcement from the research firm. Read More »
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