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Healthcare providers struggling to shift from ICD-9 to ICD-10 code sets by the government’s Oct. 1, 2013 deadline could find the path to conversion a little easier, according to executives at Ingenix and Health Language, Inc.
Two health IT extension centers in New York state have begun work helping primary care physicians convert from paper to digital records.
Carestream Health has sold fully-featured medical imaging and image information management systems to medical facilities dedicated to serving the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and Citizen Potawatomi Nation, both of Oklahoma.
Open source community lauds concept but knocks recommendation to set up structured development via federal research center.
Physicians will not embrace mobile health tools until they have the proper financial incentives, health experts say.
Ozcare, a non-profit health and community services provider in Queensland, has launched a new system designed to improve care by sending alerts and other notifications to nurses carrying mobile devices.
Being a small, rural hospital poses a special set of challenges. But the innovative ways in which these under-resourced organizations manage to meet their needs present new opportunities for vendors.
"When we deal with procurement and IT people in healthcare companies, we tend to hear the same message time and time again: 'Every dollar we spend on IT equipment we'd rather spend somewhere else.'"
IBM has announced it has launched a multi-year research project to connect and analyze enormous collections of data from a wide variety of sources to find ways to improve health. The project will initially focus on childhood obesity.
More and more EMR vendors are offering confused and wary providers an offer they might find difficult to refuse: a money-back guarantee.