Keane, Inc., a U.S.-based IT services and healthcare information technology firm, today announced Evangelical Community Hospital has commissioned Keane Optimum, a one-source solution for healthcare organizations seeking a robust information system, to maintain patient safety and quality of care at its Lewisburg, Pennsylvania location. Evangelical, a private, not-for-profit healthcare facility ranked in the top fifth [...]
Evangelical Community Hospital Selects Keane Optimum to Achieve Meaningful Use
October 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment
CSC Creates Online Community Dedicated to Meaningful Use
July 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment
CSC today announced the CSC Meaningful Use Community, the first open and interactive online community for healthcare providers seeking to achieve meaningful use of electronic health records (EHR). The community will provide an open forum for healthcare professionals to learn, connect and share guidance with others who have successfully implemented meaningful use of EHRs. Members [...]
Track ARRA Spending Priorities with HIMSS Analytics Market Intelligence
May 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment
With American Recovery and Reinvestment Act regulations more defined and qualified hospitals due to receive funding as early as 2011, understanding and tracking marketplace expenditures is vital. The 5th edition of Essentials of the US Hospital IT Market from HIMSS Analytics captures data from the HIMSS AnalyticsTM Database of more than 5,200 hospitals and 32,000 medical [...]
Practice Fusion Guarantees Meaningful Use Certification
September 30, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Practice Fusion Inc., the fastest growing electronic health record (EHR) community for physicians in the United States, today announced a guarantee that physicians using Practice Fusion’s EHR will qualify for Meaningful Use before the economic stimulus (HITECH Act) payments begin in January 2011 – effectively guaranteeing payout of stimulus package money to the growing number [...]
Blumenthal on Incentives for adoption of HIT aimed at small health care Practices
July 23, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The Administration’s health information technology (HIT) activities and how they will impact small health care practices was the focus of Dr. David Blumenthal, the National Coordinator, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), testimony before the House Small Business Subcommittee. HITECH Act. The HITECH Act includes $2 billion in funding to ONC [...]
HIMSS EHR Association Supports Achievable “Meaningful Use” Criteria
July 13, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The Electronic Health Records Association (EHR Association) has made specific recommendations to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) on measurable criteria for achieving “meaningful use” of electronic health records (EHRs), as called for in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). The Association specifically calls for 2011 objectives [...]
Sarasota Memorial Health Care Selects Medricity’s Novo Grid for Health Information Exchange
June 23, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Medicity, Inc. announced today that Florida-based Sarasota Memorial Health Care System, an 806-bed regional medical center that is ranked among “America’s Best Hospitals,” has selected the Medicity Novo Grid solution to electronically exchange health information between the hospital and physician practices. The Medicity solution will enable the leading health system to align with government initiatives [...]
Meaningful Use Matrix Released by HIT Policy Committee
June 17, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Image via Wikipedia After months of wondering how the term “Meaningful Use” would be defined we finally got some clarity yesterday when the Health IT Policy Committee, which advises the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, released a series of recommendations. Or course, those recommendations released by the HIT Policy Committee are not the [...]
Initial Criteria for Defining Meaningful Use
June 16, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Image via Wikipedia Today, a Health IT Policy Committee work group released its initial recommendations for defining “meaningful use” of electronic health records, Health Data Management reports. The federal economic stimulus law requires hospitals and physicians to demonstrate meaningful use of EHRs to qualify for Medicare and Medicaid incentive payments. Although the work group’s recommendations [...]
The Process of Defining Meaningful Use has Finally Begun
June 16, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Building on the historic $19 billion investment provided through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act), efforts continued today to further the national adoption and implementation of health information technology (HIT) — an essential tool to modernize the health care system and bring about improved health for all Americans. The Health Information [...]
