TASCET, Inc., released its “Unique Patient Identifier,” or UPI, solution to the healthcare industry– resolving a long, contentious search by providers, patient privacy advocates and public agencies.
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Telehealth represents the next frontier in medical care, and it’s something healthcare providers are already feeling the pressure from their digitally connected patients to provide. How much pressure? According to Logicalis Healthcare Solutions, the healthcare-focused arm of Logicalis US, an international IT solutions and managed services provider, that depends on the generation of patient being served.
Increasing reports of cyber theft of patient information via hacking—most recently of UCLA Health System, EHR vendor Medical Informatics Engineering and its patient portal NoMoreClipboard, and, earlier, of Anthem and Premera—suggest these data breaches will continue as criminals increasingly seeking out medical data because the data contain links to financial and insurance information.
The New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII), acting as New Jersey’s State-designated entity on behalf of the New Jersey Department of Health, has received a $2.9 million grant from the ONC to help their Department of Health ensure the sharing of quality data through its NJHIN.
The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI), the nation’s leading nonprofit authority on the use of health IT to create efficiencies in healthcare information exchange, announced the release of its findings from its June 2015 ICD-10 Industry Readiness Survey.
The NHHIO, a non-profit, announced that it has been awarded funds by the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) as part of ONC’s health information technology (HIT) grant program.
Results of a comprehensive survey by the American Association for Physician Leadership ® and Navigant Center for Healthcare Research and Policy Analysis show widespread support for the U.S. Affordable Care Act among physician leaders nationwide.
Healtheway announced the organization has been renamed The Sequoia Project. Healtheway and its member-led board began the rebranding process after performing a multi-month evaluation of its mission and goals for the next decade.
The Gary and Mary West Health Institute commends Congress for passing legislation extending the Independence at Home (IAH) program, which demonstrated home-based care can significantly reduce spending and improve care for Medicare patients with chronic diseases.