New Report Shows Hospitals Ready to Meet Stage 2 Meaningful Use
HIMSS Analytics Report: More Than 60% of US Hospitals Ready to Meet Stage 2 Meaningful Use in 2014 According to data collected through June 2013…
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Patient Consent for Electronic Health Information Exchange
HealthIT.gov Add Meaningful Consent Tools HHS announced the launch of an online resource to help health care providers effectively engage patients in choosing how they want their…
Health IT Business News – Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Today’s Business News Nuance Communications announced a specialized version of Dragon Medical 360 | Network Edition that is designed to enable physicians using Epic’s electronic health record (EHR)…
Survey Says…40% of Consumers Willing to Switch to Physicians Using EHR Technology
Accenture Survey Suggests Patient Interest in EHR Technology on the Rise Supporting the growing trend toward patient engagement and interest in EHR technology, a new Accenture survey…
New Research Reveals Medical Identity Theft is Up
Affects 1.84 Million U.S. Victims Medical identity theft is a national healthcare issue with life-threatening and hefty financial consequences. According to the 2013 Survey on…
AHIMA Calls for Set of National Guidelines for Visit Code Reporting
Comments on CMS’ Proposed Payment Systems and Quality Reporting Programs Implementation of national guidelines for reporting hospital outpatient clinic visits would lead to standardized and…
ONC Launches Patient Matching Initiative
Lee Stevens /Â Policy Director, State HIE Program As part of our ongoing effort to improve patient matching across disparate systems, we are beginning a collaborative…
Health IT Business News – Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Today’s Business News Quality Systems, Inc. announced it has acquired Mirth Corporation, a global leader in health information technology that helps clients achieve interoperability. The acquisition…
Deloitte Releases Updated Omnibus Final Rule Brief Ahead of Sept. 23 Deadline
Omnibus Final Rule and Stakeholder Considerations The HIPAA Omnibus final rule enhances a patient’s privacy protections, provides individuals new rights to their personal health information,…