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By Molly Merrill | 12:39 pm | October 25, 2011
RelayHealth, McKesson's connectivity business, has been awarded a $50,000 prize as the winner of the VA's "Blue Button for All Americans" personal health record contest.
By Mike Miliard | 12:04 pm | October 25, 2011
IBM has launched a new technology designed to extract relevant clinical information from unstructured data. Based on the same natural language processing technology used in IBM's Watson, its new Content and Predictive Analytics for Healthcare is aimed at preventing patient readmissions.
By Diana Manos | 11:45 am | October 25, 2011
Physician groups are pleased with their initial take of the final accountable care organization (ACO) rule issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on Oct. 20.
By Eric Wicklund | 10:45 am | October 25, 2011
ONC Chief Farzad Mostashari, MD, speaking at the Medical Group Management Association's 2011 conference in Las Vegas, tried to appease worried physician leaders by telling them a good EHR will make the path easier to meaningful use, ACOs and other federal healthcare reform measures.
By Molly Merrill | 10:21 am | October 25, 2011
The larger a practice is -- the more physicians, exam rooms and patients it has -- the more likely it is to adopt electronic health records, according to a new report.
By Molly Merrill | 09:53 am | October 25, 2011
The Medical Group Management Association is calling on the Department of Health and Human Services to issue a HIPAA 5010 contingency plan, permitting health plans to adjudicate claims that may not have all the required data.
By Diana Manos | 12:05 pm | October 24, 2011
Healthcare Information Xchange of New York (HIXNY) announced Friday it has connected its HIE with the cloud-based electronic health record from athenahealth.
By Mike Miliard | 11:47 am | October 24, 2011
With global population set to hit 7 billion by the end of this month – promising huge challenges for healthcare worldwide – SAP AG and the United Nations Population Fund have unveiled two interactive dashboards that use business analytics to enable greater transparency and awareness around population trends.
By Eric Wicklund | 11:15 am | October 24, 2011
The Medical Group Management Association's three-day 2011 conference kicked off Sunday with an 'open mic' session that addressed the new ACO rules, ICD-10 and physician-hospital integration
By Bernie Monegain | 11:01 am | October 24, 2011
Three South Dakota health organizations are poised to put a $900,000 federal grant to work by creating a community health information network that will make it possible for them to share patient information via electronic health records.