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The protected health information of 18,470 patients at Detroit-based Henry Ford Health System (HFHS) may have compromised by a data breach the system first discovered in October.
HFHS said it first learned of the breach after a group of…
Optum, the consulting and services arm of health insurance giant UnitedHealth Group, announced at the launch of a $250 million venture capital fund investing in data analytics and digital health firms.
The fund, called Optum Ventures, will…
A lawsuit claims 62 Indiana hospitals fraudulently received more than $300 million from the federal government by overbilling patients for the release of their electronic health records and falsified their meaningful use attestations.
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David Shulkin, MD, secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, asked a House committee to redirect $782 million of his agency’s budget to begin the switch from the VA’s legacy electronic health record system to a new Cerner platform.…
Like most healthcare conventions this year, the 2017 meeting of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) featured plenty of talk about healthcare policy coming out of Washington, D.C. With much of the attention taken up by…
All of Us, the precision medicine research program run by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will utilize data from the popular consumer wearable Fitbit, with 10,000 of the devices being provided to volunteers for one year.
The…
A newly unsealed lawsuit claims billing software made by Epic Systems has caused hundreds of hospitals to double-bill Medicaid and Medicare for anesthesia services which could have resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in improper claims to…
CMS quality programs will require the use of a new health IT standard, called Clinical Quality Language (CQL), in the 2019 care year to “better express logic defining measure populations to improve the accuracy and clarity” of electronic clinical…
The medical practices represented by the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) want to have more input on health IT requirements under the new administration, not a repeat of “being told what to do” as they felt with meaningful use,…
Lexington, Massachusetts-based health IT security firm Imprivata has acquired the identity and access management business of Caradigm, a population health company run by GE Healthcare.
John Flannery, CEO of General Electric and…
David Shulkin, MD, secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), told a House committee the transition from its legacy electronic health record (EHR) to a new Cerner system will take seven to eight years.
Shulkin…
In a survey of leaders at hospitals, health system and physician practices, just 9 percent reported they’ve fully implemented products that meet the requirements of the 2015 edition of Certified EHR Technology (CEHRT), though 41 percent said they…
About 500 employees at Watertown, Massachusetts-based Athenahealth will be laid off as the digital health services company looks to cut costs under pressure from an activist investor.
The Boston Globe reported the cutbacks will…
Combining health systems and hospitals means combining their health information, making the health information management (HIM) strategy a critical facet of any merger, which can be tripped up by poor planning or having an unhelpful electronic…
Implementation of information governance practices—or at least a need to implement them in the future—is growing, according to a survey released at the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) conference in Los Angeles.
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Less than 5 percent of consumers had accessed their electronic health record (EHR) through a patient portal in 2013. By 2016, that number had skyrocketed to 82 percent, according to a survey released at the American Health Information Management…
The acquisition of McKesson’s Enterprise Information Solutions (EIS) business focused on hospital and health system IT by Allscripts has been completed as of Oct. 2, a move which appears to have tremendous support among providers using McKesson’s…
A new administration in Washington, D.C., means changes for the regulatory landscape and enforcement for health information management, which will be the focus of David Holtzman, vice president of compliance strategies at CynergisTek, during his…
The federal Healthcare.gov site that most states rely on for their Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchanges will be shut down for 12 hours for five of the six Sundays during the upcoming open enrollment period, as well as overnight on Nov. 1, the…
Blockchain technology is just beginning to creep into healthcare, with recent examples like Change Healthcare’s new…
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin-based Agnesian Healthcare has filed a lawsuit against Cerner, claiming its revenue cycle management system had “pervasive errors” which has damaged the health system’s reputation and led to losses of at least $16 million…