WEDI Launches Bundled Payments Taskforce
The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) announced its Payment Models Workgroup is forming a project team to advance its work in the specific area of Bundled Payments.
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EHNAC and DirectTrust to Conduct a Pilot
The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC), a non-profit standards development organization and accrediting body for organizations that electronically exchange healthcare data, and DirectTrust, a non-profit trade alliance that advances secure, health information exchange via the Direct Protocol, announced they are developing an accreditation program for personal health record (PHR) and patient portal vendors.
AMA President Outlines Physician Leadership Plan for Digital Health
The game-changing digital transformation of medicine is emerging into a new phase, according to Robert M. Wah, M.D., president of the American Medical Association (AMA), and there is reason for great optimism in the future of this evolution as the AMA helps physicians take on a greater role in leading changes that will move technological innovations forward.
Tech-Savvy Nurses Driving Significant Patient Safety and Workflow Improvements
At the HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition in Chicago, HIMSS released the results of the 2015 Impact of the Informatics Nurse Survey – a survey of nearly 600 participants including C-suite executives, clinical analysts and informatics nurses.
CommonWell Health Alliance Announces Member Expansion Plans for 2015
CommonWell Health Alliance announced the commitment of five of its health IT vendor members—athenahealth, Cerner, CPSI, Greenway Health and McKesson—to actively deploy CommonWell services to health care provider sites nationwide throughout 2015.
HBMA and AHIMA Establish Partnership
The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) and the Healthcare Billing and Management Association (HBMA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding that will allow the associations to collaborate and share educational benefits with their members.
ZeOmega Acquires HealthUnity
ZeOmega Inc. announced the acquisition of HealthUnity Corporation, an innovative provider of interoperability solutions that enable providers, payers and public health organizations to streamline the secure exchange of patient data across disparate systems.
CommonWell Health Alliance Welcomes New Members
CommonWell Health Alliance announced the addition of five new members that significantly enhance the association’s nationwide footprint, share of the EHR marketplace and diversity across…
Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network
eHI CEO Jennifer Covich Bordenick attended the White House kick-off of the “Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network.” Bordenick joined 100 other top health care luminaries invited to the White House,