HIE Rundown 1-8-2015
Here is what is happening to make health information exchange happen. Santé and Encore connect with Inofile Kno2. e-MDs is first EHR to connect to Kansas registry. SHIN-NY joins with Healthix for patient alert system.
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Sue Schade Named CHIME-HIMSS 2014 CIO of the Year
Sue Schade, FCHIME, FHIMSS has been selected as the recipient of the 2014 John E. Gall, Jr. CIO of the Year Award. Schade is Chief Information Officer at University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers in Ann Arbor, one of the largest and most-recognized academic health systems in the country.
$150.7 Million to Support Second Phase of PCORnet Development
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) issued two funding announcements offering a total of up to $150.7 million to support further development of the health systems-based and patient-powered data networks that comprise PCORnet, the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network.
New Master’s Degree Blends Tech and Health Care
By Anne Ju – The creation of a degree program designed to connect health care professionals and technologists was announced Dec. 4 at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech.
Health IT Business News – January 5, 2015
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) formalized its partnership agreement with KLAS Enterprises, an independent researcher of healthcare technology vendors, products and services for the provider market.
National Health Expenditures Continued Slow Growth in 2013
Health spending continued to grow at a slow rate last year the Office of the Actuary (OACT) at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reported. In 2013, health spending grew at 3.6 percent and total national health expenditures in the United States reached $2.9 trillion, or $9,255 per person.
Health IT Appointments and Hires 2014
Announcements made from companies and organizations on the hiring and appointments in the healthcare and health IT industry.
EHR Incentive Program Status Report October 2014
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released the most recent numbers for the EHR Incentive programs. Here are some Program-to-date highlights from this latest CMS report – October.
Coalition for ICD-10 Responds to AMA
In his recent speech to the AMA House of Delegates, AMA president Dr. Robert Wah characterized the planned implementation of ICD-10 as analogous to the dark forces controlling the galaxy in the movie Star Wars: “If it was a droid, ICD-10 would serve Darth Vader… For more than a decade, the AMA kept ICD-10 at bay – and we want to freeze it in carbonite!”