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San Mateo County Health System in California may be adjacent to the technology hotbed of Silicon Valley, but you’d be wrong to assume it’s on the cutting edge of health IT. Instead, it has what the system’s chief information officer called a “…
The next head of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT will be Donald Rucker, MD, a choice the industry was quick to praise once word of the pick …
Physicians are evenly splitting their time between office visits with patients and “desktop medicine” activities like typing notes, ordering tests and making referrals through a patient’s electronic health record (EHR), according to a study…
One of the pharmaceutical companies often blamed for hiding the addictive nature of its painkillers is now sponsoring a trial of an app aimed at curbing opioid abuse.
Purdue Pharma is partnering on a trial with Geisinger Health System in…
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will make a final decision on whether to ditch its in-house electronic health record (EHR) system for a commercial product by June, according to VA Secretary David Shulkin.
According to Nextgov,…
A former Louisiana congressman and physician has been appointed to a new healthcare technology position within HHS, which is causing confusion as to what the future holds for the Office of National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC).
Former…
New York–Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center is the target of a class action lawsuit alleging it charged more than double the legal rate to patients seeking physical copies of their medical records.
According to the New York…
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is leaning toward abandoning its troubled legacy electronic health record (EHR) system in favor of an off-the-shelf commercial option, even though the department has spent millions trying to modernize the…
Epic won the top software suite ranking for the seventh year in a row in the 2017 Best of KLAS:…
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has released data showing what measures hospitals reported to public…
Last year didn’t see healthcare breaches on the scale of the Anthem hack of 2015, but there were still 450 reported breaches in 2016 affecting more than 27 million patient records, as reported in the "Breach Barometer Report: Year in Review” by…
As the clock winds down on the current CMS administration, some hospitals got a parting gift: extra time to report electronic Clinical Quality Measure (eCQM) data within two CMS programs.
In…
Issues with the October 2016 ICD-10 update mean CMS can’t process certain quality measure data for the last quarter of the year, so the agency will waive penalties related to the glitch’s impact on the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS).…
Stories about hacking and the perception that healthcare providers aren’t providing adequate data security have led patients to distrust health IT.
According to…
About 171,000 Medicare eligible professionals (EPs) will be hit with a 3 percent downward payment adjustment this year for failing to show meaningful use (MU) under the Medicare Electronic Health Record Incentive Program in 2015.
The number…
In almost a year of “safety huddles” among staff at one hospital, 7 percent of safety issues discussed involved electronic health records (EHRs), usually regarding the technology not working properly.
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Hacking skills weren’t needed to gain access to confidential patient information of 15,000 individuals who had received services from the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services. All it required was a public computer.…
The 21st Century Cures Act wasn’t just about speeding along the approval process for pharmaceuticals. It may also speed along the advancement of interoperability of electronic health records and put an end to data…
While the final rule implementing the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) will allow practices to submit only some data in 2017, CMS doesn’t have the IT infrastructure in place to collect it.
According to…
In a Dec. 16 letter to CMS, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) discussed the need for 2017 to be a transition year with the implementation of…
Using automated calling services to help patients manage their own health can produce some benefits, according to …