The Digital Business Law Group (DBLG) co-authored the HIPAA Survival Guide with Deborah Leyva, RN, BSN, a healthcare and technology thought leader. Given the expanding influence of the HITECH Act on regulations beyond HIPAA, DBLG felt it could better serve the growing needs of the healthcare industry by expanding the scope of the original guide. [...]
DBLG Announces Release 1.0 of the HITECH Act Survival Guide: an Open Source Law Initiativ
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Health Information Technology Market Will Show “Impressive” Worldwide Growth, Scientia Advisors Finds
November 11, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Health information technology (HIT) is the fastest growing segment of the $1 trillion global health care marketplace—and its “impressive” 11 per cent combined annual growth rate is likely to continue through 2013, according to a Scientia Advisors global industry review released today. But, in order to remain competitive, the study found, companies must factor in [...]
athenahealth Chooses Monolith Software to Increase Transparency in Support of Its National Physician Network
November 10, 2009 By Leave a Comment
athenahealth Chooses Monolith Software to Increase Transparency in Support of Its National Physician Network 11/10/2009 9:00:00 AM ET National Centrally-Hosted Business Service Provider for Physician Practices Reaches for Higher Levels of Application and System Performance With Greater Real-Time Service MonitoringMarket Wire ST. CHARLES, IL — (MARKET WIRE) — 11/10/09 — Monolith Software, a software provider [...]
HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association Supports Standards in HIT Standards Committee Testimony
November 5, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association (EHR Association) provided written testimony at last week’s public hearing of the HIT Standards Committee Implementation Workgroup. This workgroup, which advises the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), is charged with bringing forward “real-world” implementation experience, with special emphasis on strategies to accelerate the adoption of [...]
Medsphere Guarantees Meaningful Use for Hospitals That Implement OpenVista Electronic Health Record in 2009
October 7, 2009 By 2 Comments
Medsphere Systems Corporation, the leading provider of open source healthcare IT solutions, today announced that hospitals that sign a contract before December 31, 2009 to implement the OpenVista open source electronic health record (EHR) are guaranteed to achieve full implementation and meet federal meaningful use standards by January 31, 2011. Meeting this deadline for EHR [...]
Listing of Current Open Source Health Care Projects Including EMR/EHR
June 10, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Open source projects created for use in health care and medical applications promise to significantly reduce costs and contribute efficiencies to health care organizations, according to Black Duck Software, the leading global provider of products and services for accelerating software development through the managed use of open source software. Using a well-known cost estimation model [...]
Panel discussion on open source solutions for health care IT scheduled for Fort Lauderdale in June
June 2, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Image by nenortas photography via Flickr The Collaborative Communications Summit announces that Misys Open Source Solutions and other healthcare leaders will present a panel on how open source technology is gaining traction as an effective and viable health IT solution for care providers at the upcoming Spring CCS Health IT Summit taking place this June [...]
