National Blue Button Consumer Campaign
Launching this Fall By Lygeia Ricciardi/ Director, Office of Consumer eHealth, ONC , and Simone Myrie, Public Health Analyst at ONC At the recent Health…
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CMS Issues New FAQs on PQRS
Latest Frequently Asked Questions on PQRS Now Available To keep you updated with information on the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS), CMS has recently added…
Health IT Business News – Thursday, July 10, 2014
Today’s Business News DataMotion, a health information service provider (HISP) with more than 15 years of secure messaging experience, announced Cumberland Medical Center has deployed DataMotion’s Direct Secure Messaging…
Medical Data: Why the FBI Says Hackers Are Targeting EHRs Now
Why Would Hackers be Interested in Medical Data? By Edward Keiper, President and CEO of Velocity No doubt, security is always a top concern when handling…
Veterans Affairs Selects ASM Research to Modernize EHRs
VistA Core Project ASM Research, an Accenture Federal Services Company, has been awarded a three-year, $162 million contract from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs…
Three Strategies to Avoid a Data Migration Disaster when Switching EHRs
Making an EHR Switch? Plan Your Data Migration By Sean West, VP & GM, HealthPort Data Conversion Services EHR replacement is on the rise. According…
Interactive Tool to Help Providers Understand 2014 CEHRT NPRM
EHR Certification Notice of Proposed Rulemaking The following is correspondence from CMS and ONC. In May 2014, CMS released a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM)…
HHS Launches Challenge to Improve Hypertension Through Health IT
ONC and Million Hearts Challenge Looking for New CDS Tools The following is a press release from HHS. In an effort to help clinical practices use…
A 4-Step Approach to Interoperability
Real-Time Data Must Simultaneously be Pushed and Pulled in the Right Ways By Brian Ahier, Director of standards and government affairs, and Ashish Shah, Chief…