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July 2013

Patient orgs urge balanced oversight of health IT (07/31/2013)

Free mobile medical booking for Obamacare patients (07/31/2013)

Quest Diagnostics, First National Laboratory to Partner with Greater Houston Healthconnect to Improve Quality of Patient Care (07/31/2013)

Surescripts and Inofile Align to Improve Interoperability, Complete the Patient Record (07/31/2013)

Patient safety, mobile health strategies--latest in clinical practice (07/31/2013)

Teeth sensors could rein in compliance (07/31/2013)

WSJ: More doctors opting out of Medicare (07/31/2013)

NeHC launches Consumer Engagement Advisory Council (07/31/2013)

Stolen x-ray films cause breach (07/31/2013)

Tackling medication adherence (07/30/2013)

Arkansas Office of Health Information Technology Selects Get Real Health as the Patient Portal Development Vendor for State Health Alliance for Records Exchange (SHARE) (07/30/2013)

U.S. clinical mobility spending to hit $5.4B by 2016 (07/30/2013)

Red River Partners With EXTENSION In Healthcare Division Launch (07/30/2013)

mHealth, system infrastructure changes drive improvements (07/30/2013)

Governance tips for mHealth success (07/30/2013)

Cloud storage leads to potential breach for OHSU (07/30/2013)

Qsource and State of Tennessee Help Healthcare Providers Securely Share Vital Patient Information (07/29/2013)

Craig Hospital's Patients With Brain And Spinal Cord Injuries Now Benefiting From Cutting-Edge Medical Records Exchange Technology (07/29/2013)

CMS offers insight on CQMs specs (07/29/2013)

CPSI and Sunquest join CommonWell Health Alliance (07/29/2013)

Zotec Partners to acquire Medical Management Professionals, Inc. for $200 million (07/29/2013)

Payers, providers and vendors harness data for better health (07/29/2013)

Boston Children's app development effort proving its worth (07/29/2013)

Analysts share mHealth outlooks (07/29/2013)

Successful implementations are 'not about the technology' (07/29/2013)

Mobile health has opportunity in addictive nature of smartphones (07/26/2013)

AMA, AHA add to MU criticisms (07/26/2013)

Focus on mobile health (07/26/2013)

drchrono Voted Top EHR for iPad by Physicians, Launches Free Digital Medical Forms Library (07/25/2013)

Nation's Largest Health Information Network Surescripts to Provide Clinical Messaging Capabilities for Users of Five Health Technology Vendors (07/25/2013)

Senate Finance Hearing: MU Stage 2 delay, interoperability explored (07/25/2013)

mHealth market poised for explosive growth (07/25/2013)

KP CIO talks mHealth, innovation (07/25/2013)

Walgreens shares mHealth efforts (07/25/2013)

Cooperative agreement will link SNOMED CT and LOINC codes (07/24/2013)

MGMA: Concerned CMS not planning for ICD-10 testing (07/24/2013)

ONC progress report addresses HIT goals (07/24/2013)

Much debate over MU program (07/24/2013)

CHIME members advise orderly transition to Stage 2 MU at federal hearing (07/24/2013)

AMDIS: Documentation for team care (07/23/2013)

AMDIS: Spotlight on iBlue Button (07/23/2013)

AMDIS: Changes roles, changing goals (07/23/2013)

AMDIS: Flux for all CMIOs (07/23/2013)

23 Georgia hospitals form IT alliance (07/23/2013)

AMDIS: ONC offer tips on being a good CMIO (07/23/2013)

AMDIS: Documentation and ICD-10 (07/23/2013)

CommonWell Health Alliance shares goals for interoperability (07/23/2013)

Great Lakes Health Information Exchange Launches CDC Compliant Immunization Gateway -- First In Michigan (07/23/2013)

Physician survey sheds light on health IT views (07/23/2013)

BCBSA’s Robert Kolodgy: Transforming the Payor–Provider Relationship (07/23/2013)

Christopher J. Donovan: Leveraging Data for Enterprise Business Initiatives (07/23/2013)

Medicare Shared Savings ACOs: Crystal Run Shares Lessons Learned (07/23/2013)

The Little ACO That Could (07/23/2013)

All large hospitals in Colo. participating in HIE (07/22/2013)

RightCare Solutions, Inc. Reports Positive Topline Results with D2S2 in Reducing All-Cause 30-day Readmissions from Pivotal Study (07/22/2013)

EHRs can boost reporting in immunization registeries (07/22/2013)

Remote monitoring poised to save global healthcare market $36B annually by 2018 (07/22/2013)

Nearly 3,000 notified in Calif. breach (07/22/2013)

8 vendors certified under new interoperability program (07/22/2013)

HHS grants to support primary care training (07/22/2013)

This week in health IT: MU, HIPAA (07/19/2013)

Mostashari to Senate: No pause needed for MU program (07/18/2013)

TrustHCS Academy Graduates The First Class of Students to Supplement Growing Coder Deficit (07/18/2013)

Survey: Physicians Reveal Top Challenges, Financial Management Concerns and Focus Areas for Next 3-5 Years (07/18/2013)

Moving mHealth beyond hype to real scientific value (07/18/2013)

How many EHR vendors will drop out of market by Stage 3? (07/18/2013)

Survey: Providers don't understand potential of ICD-10 (07/18/2013)

CMS releases data in support of MU program (07/18/2013)

Reaching critical mass (07/17/2013)

AHA and Blue Cross Blue Shield: Do not delay ICD-10 (07/17/2013)

AMDIS: Lessons from a first year CMIO (07/16/2013)

HIMSS unveils Health IT Value Suite (07/16/2013)

CMS announces first year Pioneer results, ACOs leaving program (07/16/2013)

Pioneer ACOs year 1: More improved quality than costs (07/16/2013)

Hyland Software Hosts Seventh Annual OnBase/Epic User Forum (07/16/2013)

HIE geared to underserved children (07/16/2013)

Cedars-Sinai fires five over wrongfully accessing records (07/16/2013)

Healthcare tablet market to hit $1.7B this year (07/16/2013)

Surgical patients at ACS NSQIP hospitals show lower mortality rates (07/15/2013)

AHIMA, CHIME partner to advance HIM, HIT (07/15/2013)

Health Care Price Growth at 20+ Year Low (07/15/2013)

Pilot seeks to advance patient control over EMRs (07/15/2013)

Google Glass eyed as future healthcare tool (07/15/2013)

HIMSS Analytics makes 2011 data available at no charge (07/15/2013)

Ten states establish infrastructure for exchange (07/15/2013)

277K impacted in Texas breach--largest ever? (07/15/2013)

WellPoint slapped with $1.7M fine for HIPAA violations (07/14/2013)

Beacon Partners and Information Builders Announce Partnership to Offer Complete Healthcare Business Intelligence and Analytics Solutions (07/12/2013)

Integrated Solutions Group, Inc. Acquires California-based Data Strategies, Inc. (07/12/2013)

Ups and downs in health IT (07/11/2013)

289 Most Wired Hospitals Struggle to Share Data Across Borders (07/11/2013)

HITPC: Non-targeted query recommendations forthcoming (07/11/2013)

UnitedHealth set to double ACO contracts by 2017 (07/11/2013)

Scribe’s New White Paper Explores Issues and Solutions to Improving Clinical Documentation While Increasing Reimbursements (07/11/2013)

MedSnap ID App Launches As World's First Computer Vision Powered Prescription Medication Identification Service (07/11/2013)

Speakers offer HIT safety plan details (07/11/2013)

HHS releases National Quality Strategy annual progress report (07/10/2013)

ONC unveils product certification mark (07/10/2013)

Exchange underlies all IT efforts (07/10/2013)

Study: HIE on the rise, but financial viability remains ‘Achilles’ heel’ (07/10/2013)

AHRQ guide to help engage patients (07/10/2013)

Health Affairs studies: EHR incentives work, but challenges remain (07/10/2013)

CMS proposes 29 new quality measures (07/10/2013)

HITPC: Query exchange, provider directory recs approved (07/10/2013)

HITPC: Focus on HIT safety plan strategies (07/10/2013)

Dell Leads Gartner’s Healthcare Information Technology Services Provider Rankings (07/10/2013)

HITPC: CMS reports $633M in 2013 EHR payments (07/09/2013)

HITPC: CMS explains non-returning Medicare providers (07/09/2013)

Mostashari reflects on 50th HITPC meeting (07/09/2013)

Rural hospital EHR adoption up 257% (07/09/2013)

Greenway and Epic EHR Interoperability Helps Mothers and Newborns Receive Higher-Quality, Safer Care (07/09/2013)

Resolute Anesthesia and Pain Solutions, LLC Begins Nationwide Expansion of Shareable Ink's Innovative iPad Solution (07/09/2013)

The Impact of IT on Healthcare to be Discussed by Worldwide Experts at HIMSS AsiaPac13, Hong Kong (07/09/2013)

Some Pioneer ACOs may drop out (07/09/2013)

Ophthalmology academy to launch eyecare database (07/08/2013)

Glitch causes breach impacting 6,700 in California (07/08/2013)

Healthcare industry significantly outgrows other industries (07/08/2013)

NCQA seeks feedback on HEDIS ICD-10 plan (07/08/2013)

Coder Academy Launched to Train and Place Healthcare Professionals for ICD-10 (07/08/2013)

NYUPN Clinically Integrated Network, LLC and Cigna Start Accountable Care Program to Improve Health and Lower Costs (07/08/2013)

Electronic Health Records Result in Reduced Medical Errors For Australian Doctors, Accenture Survey Finds (07/08/2013)

Hackers cause breach impacting 49K in Michigan (07/08/2013)

NIST releases cybersecurity framework draft (07/08/2013)

Assn. warns: learn from 5010 for ICD-10 (07/08/2013)

Ind. breach impacts almost 200,000 (07/08/2013)

HHS issues HIT safety plan (07/08/2013)

ONC awards JC contract for health IT safety (07/08/2013)

UnitedHealth Exits Calif. Market; Employers Get Obama Reprieve (07/02/2013)

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