July 2014

Study: EHRs 'double-edged sword' due to privacy concerns ()
IOM's medical education study casts doubt on pending physician shortage ()
Imprivata Achieves 51 Percent Single Sign-on Market Share Amongst U.S. Hospitals Using McKesson Paragon or Horizon EMR Systems, According to HIMSS Analytics ()
Research and Markets: 2014 Report on the International Home Healthcare (Web - Based, On - Premises, Cloud) Software Market - Forecast to 2018 ()
Doctor On Demand, Inc. Integrates with DoseSpot e-Prescribing Platform ()
Mayo Clinic researcher awarded $32.7M for oncology data project ()
Senate confirms McDonald as VA secretary ()
Mercy faces backlash over physician pay standardization ()
HCA second quarter results show positive impact of healthcare reform ()
Hospitalists urge Congress to can observation status ()
Tennessee hospitals’ surgical quality collaboration saved 533 lives, $75 million ()
Kaiser Permanente, Johns Hopkins forge partnership ()
House Committee considering legislation on clinical data registries ()
Room for improvement ()
EHRs play role in medication reconciliation, but challenges remain ()
Thoughts on Senate bill calling for EHR interoperability report ()
Healthcare Robot Systems Market Worth $3,764 Million by 2018 - New Report by MarketsandMarkets ()
Kansas Seeks to Become “Model for the Nation” with Healthcare Solution Aimed at Treating Whole Person ()
Jackson Healthcare Foundation and Global Partnership for Telehealth Partner to Implement Telemedicine at Predisan Clinics in Honduras ()
Telehealth legislation gains steam on Capitol Hill ()
Stock index for public health IT companies dropped nearly 10% ()
Senators tackle health IT interoperability ()
Folder left in public area put Indiana Health Services patients’ data at risk ()
Healthfirst and HealthCrowd Extract Eye-Opening Insights From Medicaid Population Pilot Program ()
Medical boards look to streamline licensure rules to advance telemedicine ()
House bill would broaden Medicare telehealth reimbursement ()
Break-in at S.C. hospital puts hundreds of patient records at risk ()
ONC updates Bonnie CQM tool ()
Google’s ‘ambitious’ quest inside the human body ()
Health eVillages Welcomes Five Renowned Executives to Advisory Board ()
athenahealth and Henry Schein, Inc. Expand Strategic Agreement ()
CMIO: ‘Mind-blowing’ health IT on horizon ()
Success of apps hinges on trust, usability and convenience ()
Oversight, privacy's impact on mHealth ()
Cleveland Clinic leaders share data analytics strategies ()
Organizers: Innovation HealthJam attracts wide audience ()
The Case for Continuous Interoperability ()
NQF to study sociodemographic risk adjustment of hospital performance measures ()
Analysts find inpatient volumes increasing for first time in many quarters ()
New York Methodist Hospital sued in ongoing battle over expansion in Park Slope ()
Massachusetts attorney general wins $150,000 settlement from hospital that lost patient data ()
MGMA joins in asking for greater Stage 2 Meaningful Use flexibility ()
HIT consultants report higher satisfaction than FTEs ()
A game changer? ()
Moving patients to act: Digital health practices to spur engagement ()
RI hospital faces HIPAA fine for MA patient breach ()
HHS launches behavioral health data visualization challenge ()
AHA launches SmartMarket, an online collaborative tool ()
American Society of Plastic Surgeons partners with PatientNow to provide the latest electronic medical record technology and patient engagement system ()
Study: Older communication systems can compromise safety ()
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Names New Senior Vice President for Quality and Patient Safety ()
ATA Seeks Speakers to Present at the World’s Largest Telemedicine, mHealth and Telehealth Conference ()
Selecting vendors for HIT transformation: A case study ()
Partner outside healthcare to enable, advance telehealth ()
Tips to achieve telehealth and mHealth buy-in ()
CVS adds more providers to growing list of clinical affiliations ()
Hearing addresses data sharing, privacy barriers ()
Kansas Health Information Network, Inc. Exceeds 80 Electronic Health Record (EHR) Integrations with ICA ()
AHRQ realigns centers ()
Ascension, Tenet and Dignity Health sign agreement to create joint venture in Arizona ()
Strategies, goals key to telehealth success ()
GlobalMed Announces New Alliance for Transforming Healthcare Delivery through Telemedicine ()
Zynx Health Announces Availability of Knowledge Analyzer ()
Azalea Health® Announces Agreement to Merge with simplifyMD® ()
Recent court rulings could provide cover when computers with patient data are stolen ()
N.J. health commissioner report pushes for full financial transparency for all hospitals ()
DeSalvo defends health IT safety center, ONC ()
Court rules in favor of Sutter Health on confidentiality lawsuit ()
Sunshine rule off to rocky start as doctors encounter error messages on reporting site ()
Leapfrog hospital survey reveals wide variation in high-risk procedure survival rates and hospital-acquired injury and infection rates ()
Alcon to license Google ‘smart lens' technology ()
Unauthorized device use and data leakage top health IT security threats ()
Study IDs HIT as 'critical component" of successful ACOs ()
drchrono and AppVisit Announce Integrated E-visits ()
Linked Senior and CareWorx Sign Deal to Offer Advanced Engagement Solutions to Combat Dementia ()
EHNAC launches ACO accreditation program ()
Infection surveillance systems, outreach services and patient acuity poised for growth ()
Researchers harness EHR data to identify patients with undiagnosed hypertension ()
Wolters Kluwer Health Releases ProVation Order Sets Essentials for Small and Critical Access Hospitals ()
EHR adoption tops 90% for Mass. primary and specialty care providers ()
New NIH system aims to detect illicit drug trends ()
HomecareCRM and Sta-Home Enter Business Agreement ()
Catholic Health Initiatives launches insurance subsidiary ()
AOD Software Acquires Stratis ()
AHA/HRET hospital engagement network says it saved $1.3 billion over 2 years ()
ONC launches open test method pilot program ()
Health IT venture capital funding on rise ()
Digging for EHR treasure ()
VA’s EHR ranked highest by physicians ()
Missouri to let medical students work as assistant physicians ()
VCU Medical Center wins AHA-McKesson national Quest for Quality prize ()
CVS Caremark Announces New Clinical Affiliations with Four Major Health Care Providers ()
MetaCare Enterprise™ EHR Receives ONC-ACB Modular Stage 2 Meaningful Use Certification ()
ONC: E-prescribing continues upward trend ()
Survey: 75% of consumers want digital healthcare services ()
Recipients of Inaugural Tracy T. Lefteroff Fund Awards Announced ()
It’s good to be big: HCA releases update on Q2 as early numbers show better than expected earning ()
More pressure on feds to release MU final rule ()
N.C. small town mayor walking to D.C. to protest hospital closing ()
Cruise line offers pediatric telemedicine ()
Why mHealth has stalled ()
Ambient Clinical Analytics Technology Takes Home First Place for the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management in Health Case Competition ()
Elsevier Clinical Solutions Introduces Free Clinical Documentation Improvement Reference App for Apple and Android Phones and Tablets ()
iPatientCare Introduces Patient Centric Apps for iPhone and iPad, Addition to its mHealth Solutions ()
Medicare diagnostic labs seek exemption from EHR penalties ()
Study: Text messaging helps curb young adult binge drinking ()
HHS launches new initiative to help states reform Medicaid payment and delivery systems ()
AHA and hospitals seek summary judgment in claim denial appeals backlog case ()
CVS and IBM commit $1.5M to promote innovation in community health centers ()
Community Health Systems to acquire bankrupt Natchez, Mississippi, hospital ()
U.S. News & World Report releases hospital rankings ()
EHR analysis gets better results than clinical trials ()
Inefficient communication costs average U.S. hospital $1.75M ()
$100M HHS ‘innovative collaboration’ to advance Medicaid reform ()
Patient-generated data in comparative effective research will enhance quality of care ()
Survey: EHR adoption, implementation ranked most pressing IT problems ()
Orgs launch pathology clinical informatics program ()
DataMotion Selected by Michigan Health Information Network to Provide Direct Secure Messaging Services ()
ICD-10 guidance calls for dual coding during transition ()
CMS tool helps hospitals translate impact of MU proposed rule ()
GAO: DoD, VA integrated EHR plans insufficient ()
Calif. breach reveals Social Security numbers of 18K physicians ()
Worries that hospitals will use EHRs to upcode may be overblown, new study finds ()
New York provider consortium takes aim at Medicaid costs, and state grant money ()
Detroit Medical Center wins +$9 million HHS Innovation Award to test putting primary care adjacent to ED ()
Bobby Grajewski: Healthcare leaders, help your people become innovators ()
New government funding tackles primary care shortage ()
Advances on several fronts ()
Tufts Medical Center Automates Anesthesia Record with Plexus Information Systems' AIMS ()
NextGen Healthcare and HMC/CAH Consolidated, Inc. Expand Relationship ()
HITPC: ACO recommendations focus on claims data, better tools, information sharing ()
HITPC: Recommendations for HIT safety center debated, approved ()
HITPC: Subgroup offers recommendations for expanding, strengthening health IT workforce ()
No link between hospital EHR use and upcoding for higher reimbursement ()
Six powerful Congressmen push CMS for more ICD-10 implementation information ()
Proposed MPFS seeks to boost payments to primary care ()
June jobs report reflects shift to outpatient care ()
CMS releases proposed 2015 hospital OPPS and ASC rates ()
CAHs report challenges, progress with health IT ()
CMS quality changes signal continued interest in comparing hospital outpatient and ambulatory surgical centers ()
Mass. grant initiative supports health IT ()
$100M in ACA funding to support new health centers ()
Are penalties the answer? ()
HITPC: Larger hospitals, physician practices most likely to attest to MU Stage 2 ()
MediSafe Expands into Wearables During Google’s I/O Developer Conference; Releases 1st Medication Management App for Android Wear Smartwatches ()
Over 40% of U.S. Pharmacies Now Able to Accept Electronic Prescriptions for Controlled Substances ()
HITPC: Stakeholders identify MU Stage 2 challenges, solutions ()
HITPC: CIOs share insight on MU Stage 2 attestation ()
No shortage of public comments on FDASIA draft report ()
HITPC realigns workgroups ()
HITPC approves MU Stage 3 quality measure recommendations ()
iPatientCare Updates miGlass - the First Wearable EHR App for the Google Glass, Adds Innovative Functionalities and Addresses Emerging Demands of Health Care Providers ()
Michigan HIEs merge to serve 5M patients ()
CMS proposal requires chronic care providers to use 2014 CEHRT ()
Report: CPOE market poised for growth ()
NSA intercepted data, including medical records, from U.S. citizens ()
AHRQ showcases Medicaid innovations supporting medical homes ()
ONC challenge looks to leverage health IT to curb hypertension ()
WEDI Announces Meaningful Use Webinar Series in Collaboration with the Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services ()
ONC updates testing program for EHRs ()
HIMSS Analytics Database made available for research ()
$162M plan to update VA's VistA ()
80% of smartphone users want care alerts ()
More telehealth services proposed for Medicare ()
ATA offers recommendations to insurance commissioners group ()
Wolters Kluwer Health and Logical Images Partner to Offer VisualDx Diagnosis Support Tool to Lexicomp Customers ()
iPatientCare Partner, TransFirst, to Bring Efficiency and Automation to Patient Payment Process ()
Jocelyn Samuels tapped as new OCR director ()
AHIMA: Poor documentation risky to patient health ()
AAMI, ECRI report pinpoints HIT safety concerns ()
Philips and Salesforce.com Announce a Strategic Alliance to Deliver Cloud-Based Healthcare Information Technology ()
Bill introduced in House and Senate to further quality reporting in post-acute care ()
Meaningful Use hardship exemption deadline passes without extension ()
Massachusetts judge puts brake on Partners' deal with state ()
Study finds Stage 2 EHRs not ready for data sharing ()
Major health record hack awaits ()
Study: Majority of hospitals do not engage in HIE ()
HHS grants support healthcare disaster readiness ()
Taking a Break ()
Brightree and MacPractice join CommonWell Health Alliance ()
MGMA: Provider pay more closely linked to quality, patient satisfaction ()
Expect ‘explosive’ growth in digital health investments ()
New Study Finds That Using Smart Bed Technology® Solution Dramatically Reduces Pressure Ulcers in Long-Term Care Residents ()
US Trade & Commerce Research Institute Selects Telemedicine Industry Leader for Award ()
NextGen Healthcare and Mirth Launch Enterprise Interoperability Platform ()