DENVER--Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that its Health Language® Provider Friendly Terminology (PFT) can now be used with Epic’s EHR technology for mid-size and large medical groups, hospitals and integrated healthcare organizations.

The FY 2014 defense authorization bill, endorsed by the House and Senate, is calling for the Departments of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs to establish either a single EHR or build interoperability between their EHR systems.

HUDSON, Ohio--Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that its Lexicomp Integrated Patient Education solution has been integrated into EmmiEngage, a patient engagement platform offered by Emmi™ Solutions. This integration will help foster patient’s understanding of their medical care by allowing clinicians to direct patients to information on topics such as medications, conditions and procedures from beyond the point of care.

Providers plan to look to niche vendors more often than their incumbent EMR vendors to manage their future ACO needs, according to a KLAS report, “Accountable Care Timing 2013: Migration from Volume to Value Speeds Up.”

Without policies governing the use of copying and pasting health information into EHRs, hospitals are vulnerable to fraud and abuse, according to an audit released by the Department of Health & Human Services' Office of Inspector General.

With the start of Meaningful Use Stage 2 only weeks away, industry stakeholders discussed successes of the EHR incentive program to date while offering their views on current challenges and how to best move forward.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed a new timeline for the implementation of Meaningful Use (MU) for the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) proposed a more regular approach to update its certification regulations.

This week the Health IT Policy Committee held its December meeting which covered the most recent Meaningful Use incentive figures, how to include patient-generated health data into records and more.