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May 2015

AHA, MGMA, HIMSS express concerns about Stage 3 proposals (05/29/2015)

RWJF's Fox in as new HHS CTO (05/29/2015)

No lull for breaches (05/29/2015)

Precision Advisors Digital Trends Study: Less Than Half of Managed Care Organizations Have Access to Electronic Medical Records Data (05/27/2015)

Introducing Health Catalyst Academy: An Innovative Approach for Accelerating Outcomes Improvement (05/27/2015)

$112M going to small providers to improve heart health (05/27/2015)

CHIME weighs in on MU Stage 3 with several suggestions (05/27/2015)

athenahealth grows its More Disruption Please accelerator program (05/27/2015)

Allscripts to lay off 250 (05/27/2015)

Indiana health system victim of email phishing attack (05/27/2015)

800 impacted by billing employee's info sharing (05/27/2015)

EHR model identifies high-risk readmission (05/27/2015)

MU payments top $30B (05/27/2015)

Minnesota passes bill to amend EHR requirement (05/26/2015)

Report details status of device connectivity (05/26/2015)

Mass. provider layoffs tied to costly EHR implementation (05/26/2015)

Mass. hospital achieves EMRAM Stage 6 (05/26/2015)

2,200 UPMC ED patients' information compromised (05/26/2015)

NY breach impacts 90K (05/26/2015)

EHNAC creating data registry accreditation program (05/26/2015)

Exchange-only health plans more expensive than plans sold both on and off exchange (05/22/2015)

Business consultants urge healthcare providers to embrace consumerization (05/22/2015)

21st Century Cures bill headed to House floor, interoperability concerns in tow (05/22/2015)

Telehealth growing fast worldwide despite hurdles: market researcher (05/21/2015)

New ‘trigger tool’ scans EMRs for harms in pediatric hospitals (05/21/2015)

Another major health-insurer hack attack, China again snooper of interest (05/21/2015)

Large medical practices evidence limited view of EHR product market (05/21/2015)

Small-practice cloud company announces Apple Watch app (05/20/2015)

Companies look to transition retirees to health exchanges (05/20/2015)

Health eCareers launches SHIFT mobile and online tool to match healthcare employers with temporary job seekers (05/20/2015)

ICD-10 unlikely to be derailed, delayed or substantially changed: hospital CIO (05/20/2015)

ONC building task forces, seeking volunteers (05/20/2015)

In the race to improve healthcare, Bush likes a smartwatch’s chances (05/20/2015)

A stride forward for care portability, including via telemed (05/19/2015)

Billions and billions served: e-scripts keeping paper on the run (05/19/2015)

HIMSS signs national partnership with Netics to evaluate EMR adoption of Italian healthcare providers (05/19/2015)

Experts consider telemedicine’s cost questions (05/19/2015)

AMA backs bill to kill ICD-10 (05/18/2015)

Public opinion on ONC’s interoperability roadmap runs the gamut (05/18/2015)

Xerox acquires Healthy Communities Institute, leader in cloud-based public health data (05/18/2015)

Wearables raising possible policy concerns over privacy and security (05/18/2015)

To solve patient ID problems, act local but think global: AHIMA journal (05/18/2015)

Care-coordination market poised for notable growth (05/15/2015)

Health information exchanges shown to cut readmission rates (05/15/2015)

CMS approves Alpha II as a 2015 PQRS registry (05/15/2015)

An important shift (05/14/2015)

Opposite findings (05/14/2015)

Indiana theft impacts data of 39K (05/14/2015)

Carestream’s Healthcare IT Platforms Support Data Aggregation from Existing Systems for a More Holistic View of the Patient (05/14/2015)

Latest 21st Century Cures Act ups ante on interoperability for vendors (05/14/2015)

Missouri providers establish care network (05/14/2015)

AHRQ study: Ortho patients, those admitted through ED most likely to be readmitted (05/14/2015)

Scripps Health and Sharp Healthcare to Begin Full Participation in San Diego’s Health Information Exchange (05/14/2015)

EHR alerts drive better HPV vaccine compliance (05/13/2015)

Use of scribes growing (05/13/2015)

HIT Policy Committee debates Stage 3 requirements (05/13/2015)

DeSalvo remains committed to health IT (05/13/2015)

Hospital creates IS analyst position to increase awareness (05/13/2015)

It will take time but analytics offer opportunity (05/13/2015)

Six win ONC's inaugural Market R&D challenge (05/12/2015)

'Act and act quickly' on privacy and security concerns (05/12/2015)

Reduce employee temptation to snoop records (05/12/2015)

JAHIMA looks at growing informatics field (05/12/2015)

IBM Watson, Welltok, Centura Health partner on cardiac health tool (05/12/2015)

Combining structured, unstructured EHR data improves medication reconciliation (05/12/2015)

KPMG completes Beacon Partners acquisition (05/12/2015)

DOJ investigating Massachusetts' insurance exchange (05/11/2015)

Mass. practice earns HIMSS Davies Award (05/11/2015)

AHRQ report addresses EHR needs for pediatrics (05/11/2015)

Four Ts for successful ICD-10 implementation (05/11/2015)

Crime now the leading cause of healthcare data breaches (05/11/2015)

The neverending policy issue (05/08/2015)

Gwande explores widespread wasteful care (05/07/2015)

HIT Policy Committee gets new members (05/07/2015)

Service Launching in Colorado Creates 'Uber-like' Experience for Healthcare (05/07/2015)

CHIME members respond to Stage 3 requirements (05/07/2015)

Bill seeks to better protect consumer data (05/07/2015)

DeSalvo nominated for assistant secretary of HHS (05/07/2015)

Survey: Most nurses say EHRs improve patient safety (05/07/2015)

AMA's Steven Stack: Physicians are 'excited about change' (05/07/2015)

Survey finds providers skeptical of training, readiness for ICD-10 (05/06/2015)

Olympus retiring EndoWorks platform (05/06/2015)

Dramatic results for Banner Health's telehealth pilot (05/06/2015)

Epic, Mayo Clinic to tap IBM Watson's supercomputer (05/06/2015)

Study finds EHRs made no difference in stroke outcomes (05/06/2015)

CXO role gaining traction (05/06/2015)

FDA announces webinar, open comment period for device draft guidance (05/06/2015)

Cancer institutes partner with IBM Watson to accelerate personalized treatment (05/06/2015)

Brailer on health information ownership: Give it to patients (05/05/2015)

Getting to high-performance healthcare (05/05/2015)

Bill aims to prevent switch to ICD-10 (05/05/2015)

United to cover telemedicine (05/05/2015)

Discussions, questions for post-reform healthcare (05/05/2015)

Two years in, Pioneer ACOs save $384M (05/05/2015)

Former hospital CFO charged $4.4M for MU fraud (05/04/2015)

Caregivers can be barriers to tech-savvy seniors (05/04/2015)

athenahealth revenues jump 27% (05/04/2015)

Majority say breach is reason to switch providers (05/04/2015)

GAO finds HIT deficiencies affecting patient care (05/04/2015)

Partners' breach the result of phishing emails (05/01/2015)

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