Hospitals’ and providers’ online networks — including email accounts, electronic health records and remote monitoring devices — could...
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At a Federal Trade Commission event on Thursday, National Coordinator for Health IT Karen DeSalvo said $24 billion already has been doled out through the...
WHAT IS AN ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD? An electronic health record (EHR) is a computerized collection of a patient’s health records. It includes information such...
HealthDay News — Interoperability of electronic health record (EHR) systems is a national priority of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health...
Electronic health record systems can help jails provide more comprehensive care to inmates, according to research published in the journal Health...
Slowly but surely, social media is creeping into the health care industry’s vocabulary. Generally speaking, providers have been squeamish about utilizing...
It’s looking to be the year of the consumer in health care, say leaders and visionaries in the industry. New technology, changes in the market and the...
A viewer portal called HEALTHe NL Viewer was announced today as the latest step in the development of the provincial electronic health record, HEALTHe NL. The...
If you are a provider and are unsure about the differences in ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes or why there is a need for implementation, I highly suggest you read...
by Mary Govoni, CDA, RDA, RDH, MBA Most of us know that health-care providers must implement electronic health records (EHRs) this year in order to continue...
CMS as of the end of November 2013 had disbursed more than $17.7 billion in incentive payments to eligible hospitals and medical professionals participating in...
The medical field traditionally has operated with a lot of behind-the-scenes jobs, but the advent of both electronic health records and the Affordable Care Act...
The Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) has selected Clearwater Compliance CEO and founder Bob Chaput, CISSP, CIPP/US, CHP, CHSS, to lead a webinar...
The Electronic Medical Record (EMR) will affect every patient in this country. The EMR is a digital version of a paper chart that contains all of a patient’s...
“It used to be, if you were having a heart attack, you called your doctor and he met you at the hospital,” a respected physician told me recently. “The primary...
Big data is thrown around a lot as jargon, but some powerful case studies out there show how data is reshaping industries. Today at VentureBeat’s DataBeat/Data...