AMA triples size of its 'medical school of the future' consortium
By adding 20 leading medical schools to the 11 already participating in its Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium, the American Medical Association wants to further "bridge the gaps that exist between how medical students are trained and how healthcare is delivered" in the 21st Century.
Workforce
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Source: Healthcare IT News - November 4, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Mike Miliard Tags: Online Only Clinical Electronic Health Records Population Health Quality and Safety Workforce Source Type: news
Technological revolution shaping the future of connected care
IT revolution shaping connected care
Consider this: Mark, a diabetic, experiences hypoglycemic symptoms during a presentation at his office. He checks the biometric wearable device on his arm to see the parameters. The dial glows yellow and shows 69mg/dL. He tries to ignore it and continues with the presentation for another 15 minutes, but the device starts beeping, and another look at it shows that it has dipped further to 60mg/dL. He stops his presentation, and in 3 minutes, without any request for help, paramedics are his office with the medications that will help him recover.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - November 3, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Manish Tandon Tags: Health Information Exchange (HIE) Interoperability Mobile Patient Engagement Population Health Source Type: news
Lessons learned from a cyber attack
It's every security officer's worst nightmare: a cyber attack. IT departments spend years of planning to guard against an attack. But what is the reality? Hackers don't follow a rule book.
Privacy & Security
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Source: Healthcare IT News - November 3, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Gus Venditto Tags: Online Only Data Warehousing Medical Devices Network Infrastructure Privacy & Security Workforce Source Type: news
MedAssets sold to PE firm, will merge with Precyse
In a $2.7 billion deal, MedAssets, maker of revenue cycle and performance improvement tools, will be sold to Pamplona Capital, which will sell off one half of the company while merging the other with its Precyse subsidiary.
According to Pamplona, the company would combine the RCM business for MedAssets with Precyse, a health information management company that Pamplona bought in July. The two companies already have run under a partnership agreement.
Mergers & Acquisitions
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Source: Healthcare IT News - November 3, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Henry Powderly Tags: Online Only Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Mergers & Acquisitions Workforce Source Type: news
BIDMC begins heart care research
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has launched a new research center to evaluate and transform care for cardiovascular conditions.
The Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research in Cardiology will bring together clinicians and researchers to examine the most pressing challenges in cardiovascular care. They will examine clinical effectiveness, cost, quality, ethics and public policy.
Clinical
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Source: Healthcare IT News - November 3, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only Analytics Clinical Electronic Health Records Quality and Safety Source Type: news
Quality Systems acquires HealthFusion
Quality Systems, Inc. is building on its ambulatory-focused strategy with its recent acquisition of HealthFusion, a developer of cloud-based EHRs for physician practices.
Quality Systems, which less than two weeks ago sold off its NextGen Healthcare Hospital Solutions Division, announced Oct. 30 that it would acquire HealthFusion Holdings, Inc. for $165 million – with a potential additional contingency of up to $25 million.
Mergers & Acquisitions
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Source: Healthcare IT News - November 2, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Jessica Davis Tags: Online Only Cloud Computing Electronic Health Records Mergers & Acquisitions Source Type: news
See the highest-rated EHRs for usability
The American Medical Association, alongside MedStar Health's National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare, has launched a new framework to rank electronic health records according to their user-centered design, of UCD.
Electronic Health Records
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Source: Healthcare IT News - November 2, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Mike Miliard Tags: Online Only Clinical Decision Support Electronic Health Records Workflow Workforce Source Type: news
Increased cyber risks redefining the CISO
Increased cyber risks and a recent string of major breaches have changed the game for chief information security officers, making cybersecurity a top priority for board members and helping CISOs more effectively make the case for bigger budgets.
In fact, many healthcare leaders are seeking to reshape security strategy and budgets in light of latest security trends. In the past, cybersecurity plans of many organizations were based on industry best practices. Oftentimes they failed, however, thanks to lack of funding and focus.
Privacy & Security
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Source: Healthcare IT News - November 2, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Jessica Davis Tags: Online Only Health Information Exchange (HIE) Network Infrastructure Privacy & Security Quality and Safety Workforce Source Type: news
FHIRWorks rocks the Epic campus
There's nothing like a developer event to get the crowd fired up. At least that's how the hosts and the keynote speaker at the FHIRWorks' event at the Epic campus last week described it.
About 5,000 people, among them Epic employees, developers and users, turned up for the happening last week on the Epic headquarters in Verona, Wis., a small town, about 10 miles from Madison.
HL7
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Source: Healthcare IT News - November 2, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only Clinical Electronic Health Records HL7 Network Infrastructure Quality and Safety Source Type: news
Chronic care management: CMS built it, did providers come?
On Jan. 1, 2015 hospitals became eligible for reimbursement when treating patients with two or more chronic conditions.
Under CPT code 99490, in fact, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will pay clinicians an average of $43.12 for spending at least 20 minutes in non-face-to-face consults. There's little questioning the financial opportunity.
Population Health
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Source: Healthcare IT News - November 2, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Tom Sullivan Tags: Online Only Clinical Population Health Source Type: news
Wearable devices: Driving more value in the clinical trial model
Wearable devices: Driving value
Mobile
Wearable devices: Driving more value in the clinical trial model
(SPONSORED) As timing and accuracy of data are key components to the efficiency, speed, and therefore overall costs of operating a clinical trial, consumer wearables offer an unparalleled opportunity to remedy these issues.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - November 2, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Drew Schiller Tags: Clinical Medical Devices Mobile Source Type: news
eClinicalWorks goes global, announces first UK customer, plans to grow big time
Ambulatory EHR company eClinicalWorks is entering the European market with an office in London and expansion of its global footprint with Specsavers, its first United Kingdom-based customer.
There are more to come, says eClinicalWorks CEO Girish Navani, and growth is near for the U.S. market too, where eClinicalWorks plans to grow in the acute care market
Electronic Health Records
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Source: Healthcare IT News - November 2, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only Cloud Computing Electronic Health Records Patient Engagement Quality and Safety Workflow Source Type: news
Connected health advances care across the globe
Connected health advances care
Telehealth
Connected health advances care across the globe
(SPONSORED) The idea of improving outcomes and patient experience with digital-health technologies is also spreading across the globe. There are a number of examples of countries and companies abroad launching successful and innovative strategies.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - November 2, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Chris Edwards Tags: Clinical Telehealth Source Type: news
Connected health: An emerging driver to deliver on healthcare's Triple Aim
Connected health delivers Triple Aim
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Connected health: An emerging driver to deliver on healthcare's Triple Aim
(SPONSORED) Connected-health initiatives that incorporate telemedicine, digital-health devices and remote-monitoring solutions are an increasingly popular and effective solution to keep patients healthy and out of clinical facilities.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - November 2, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Ryan Beckland Tags: Business Intelligence Clinical Source Type: news
Healthcare IT News names 2015 Best Hospital IT Departments
Hospital IT departments have a lot on their proverbial plates these days, as they work to help their health systems manage the minutia of meaningful use attestations, deal with the nuts and bolts of the ICD-10 changeover (so far, so good!) and strengthen defenses against data security threats that only seem to get more complex and vexing by the minute. To name just a few.
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Best Hospital IT Departments
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Source: Healthcare IT News - November 2, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Mike Miliard Tags: Online Only Electronic Health Records Meaningful Use Network Infrastructure Quality and Safety Workforce Source Type: news
