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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has fully certified the Massachusetts’ Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS). The accreditation ensures the state will receive maximum federal funding for the system’s implementation and ongoing operation.
The Board of Directors of the American Health Information Management Association has appointed Lynne Thomas Gordon as its new CEO. She will assume the post on Sept. 29, days before the launch of the organization's annual conference, which begins Oct. 2 in Salt Lake City.
Patient data lost while in the hands of a business associate becomes "extraordinarily" difficult to track, says one expert, who identified data-centric protection as a way to safeguard information like that recently exposed at Stanford Hospital and Clinics.
“One patient, one record,” the goal of Maine’s leading healthcare system MaineHealth, in implementing a system-wide electronic health record, is nearly half way there when it comes to its physician practices.
The proliferation of mobile devices in healthcare has given administrators a vexing problem with no easy answer: Should a health system dictate what smartphones and tablets its employees use or allow them to use their own personal devices?
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and Nuance Communications have partnered to develop natural language processing solutions to alter the way that clinical data is captured and processed. The two are looking to extend the presence and functionality of clinical language understanding (CLU)-enabled technologies.
Cardiology IT systems can be the source of frustration for many a hospital IT chief and especially for the end users.
The American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) has created an EHR checklist to help ophthalmologists comply with meaningful use.
Jonathan Blum, deputy administrator and director for the Center of Medicare at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, says doctors are eager to try accountable care organizations (ACOs).
The pilot for the Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER), which enables sharing of veterans' health records will be expanded, the Department of Veterans Affairs announced Thursday.