At HIMSS, ZirMed will be hosting several product demonstrations at booth #6647 focusing on population health (March 1 at 11am), revenue cycle management (March 1 at 2pm) and cash acceleration (March 2 at 11am).
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The National Partnership for Women & Families, which has worked for 45 years to improve health for women and families, applauded the unprecedented work to align quality measurement across health care payers – including commercial plans, Medicare and Medicaid – for its promise to drive better care and better use of health care resources.
Modernizing Medicine is pleased to announce it is joining CommonWell Health Alliance as a Contributor member. CommonWell is a not-for-profit trade association dedicated to cross-vendor interoperability that assures provider access to health data regardless of where care occurs.
The Health division of Wolters Kluwer announced a partnership with HealthCore to provide data normalization services to the California Integrated Data Exchange. Deployment of the Health Language Enterprise Terminology Management Platform will ensure the integrity and semantic interoperability of data flowing through the statewide HIE.
Healthcare in the real world doesn’t stop at the state line. Indiana and Ohio, through two of the nation’s largest health information exchanges, are demonstrating the ability to follow the footprint of the patient across the region through the digital exchange of information across communities, states and technology systems.
Imagine a scenario in which a patient goes to a doctor’s office or a hospital and is misidentified or matched to the wrong medical record. Imagine a doctor making critical decisions based on someone else’s medical history. Imagine if that patient is a loved one. Unfortunately, this scene plays itself out too often in today’s healthcare environment — potentially as high as 20 percent of the time — largely because there’s no universal way of accurately identifying a patient, regardless of where they seek care.
HL7 and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) are holding a challenge to encourage the development of HL7 tools. Will your team be the one to develop the solution and take home the prize?
Arizona Health-e Connection (AzHeC) and Health Information Network of Arizona (HINAz) have completed a merger and are now one operational and legal entity as of January 1, 2016. This merger culminates a collaborative two-year process that began when the Boards of AzHeC and HINAz voted to formally affiliate and combine operations in February 2014.
The Health Care Administrators Association (HCAA), a leader in advocacy, education and networking for the self-funding industry, announces it has released the final agenda for its 2016 Executive Forum to be held February 9-11, 2016 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.