Healthland, the nation’s market leader in healthcare information technology solutions for rural hospitals and their affiliated care facilities, has acquired American HealthTech, provider of integrated software and electronic health records (EHR) solutions for post-acute facilities. While each company will continue to operate under its own brand, serving its traditional markets, they have already begun the [...]
One Thousand Massachusetts Providers Adopt Health Record Technology with Support from the Massachusetts eHealth Institute
May 8, 2013 By 5 Comments
The Regional Extension Center, a program of the Massachusetts eHealth Institute at MassTech (MeHI) has reached the key milestone of successfully helping 1,000 primary health care providers in the Commonwealth achieve Stage 1 Meaningful Use of electronic health records, making them eligible for federal incentive payments and paving the way for improved quality of care [...]
Johns Hopkins Medicine Integrates Hyland Software’s OnBase with Epic EMR
May 8, 2013 By 3 Comments
Hyland Software has announced that one of this countries leading healthcare systems, Johns Hopkins Medicine, has integrated its Epic electronic medical record system with OnBase, Hyland’s enterprise content management solution. According to the company the integrated solution provides clinicians and staff immediate access to patient information stored outside of the EMR, empowering staff to deliver [...]
Hospital IT Leaders Agree on Network Priorities and Future Wireless Challenges
May 7, 2013 By 5 Comments
Earlier this week, HIMSS Analytics, with the support of Comcast Business, released the results of a study of hospital IT leaders on information network challenges and barriers, as well as strategies being implemented to address current and future network demands. The study, based on the results of a focus group, was conducted at HIMSS13 in [...]
Have a Question About Mobile Health? AHIMA Has an APP Guide For That
May 7, 2013 By Leave a Comment
To help consumers navigate mobile health apps, the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) created a best practice guide that offers advice when evaluating the merits of a specific app. The Just Think App Mobile Health Apps 101: A Primer for Consumers recently posted to myPHR.com, an AHIMA website that offers consumers guidance on how [...]
Electronic Health Records Can Lead to Better Coding, More Accurate Reimbursement
May 3, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Electronic Health Records, when used correctly, produce more accurate documentation leading to more complete coding, and ultimately, more accurate reimbursement claims, according to Sue Bowman, senior director of coding policy and compliance of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). Bowman presented today at a listening session hosted by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services [...]
Interest in patient accounting product data up nearly 200%, signals providers have refocused energy in revenue cycle
April 30, 2013 By Leave a Comment
The dramatic increase in interest in patient accounting performance data indicates that many providers are ramping up their search for a go-forward strategy. This appears to be the fulfillment of the prediction made in the KLAS 2011 patient accounting report, in which more than 50% of providers interviewed said they would replace their patient accounting [...]
CTS Explores the Medical Practice Management Challenges of EMR / EHR Software
April 30, 2013 By Leave a Comment
A new article series presented by CTS, a publisher of medical software reviews and evaluation tools, explores some of the significant medical practice management challenges related to EMR / EHR software. Written by medical software expert and CTS President, Sheldon Needle, the series sheds light on problems associated with managing patient data electronically and how [...]
St. Boniface Haiti Foundation Honored With athenahealth 2013 Vision Award
April 29, 2013 By Leave a Comment
athenahealth has announced the St. Boniface Haiti Foundation as its 2013 Vision Award winner. The Vision Award, which was established by athenahealth as part of its annual User Conference, recognizes individuals and organizations that embody and extend the company’s goal to make health care work as it should. Past winners include Dr. Atul Gawande and [...]
Trinity Health Selects Explorys’ Big Data Analytics Platform to Support Clinical Integration
April 29, 2013 By 1 Comment
Explorys has announced that Trinity Health, the fourth largest Catholic healthcare system (10th largest overall) in the nation, has joined the Explorys Network. Under the terms of this multi-year agreement, Trinity Health will implement the entire suite of Explorys’ cloud-based big data analytics solutions across its 47 acute-care hospitals, 432 outpatient facilities, 33 long-term care [...]
