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Vital Signs
Epic launches user's group meeting in new Deep Space auditorium
By Joseph Conn | September 17, 2013
The star of the Epic Systems Corp. user's group meeting that got underway in Verona, Wis., Tuesday was the venue itself, the cavernous five-story, 11,400-seat Deep Space auditorium that is literally buried into a hillside and designed so the view across the rolling Wisconsin campus would be...
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Delaware center noted for helping providers become 'meaningful users'
By Joseph Conn | September 15, 2013
The Delaware Regional Extension Center is batting better than a thousand.
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Practice Makes Perfect: Three steps to optimize your existing EHR
By Derek Kosiorek | September 10, 2013
In June, MGMA-ACMPE released the results of a questionnaire that ranked members' most pressing practice management challenges. In this edition of "Practice Makes Perfect," we'll tackle No. 10 on that list: optimizing an existing EHR.
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AHRQ's new online tool helps track meaningful-use criteria
By Joseph Conn | August 29, 2013
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has a nifty online tool to help leaders of hospitals and physician groups, and other eligible professionals keep track of the meaningful-use criteria they must meet to qualify for the upcoming Stage 2 of the electronic health-record incentive payment...
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HIT consultant's matrix challenges interoperability
By Joseph Conn | August 27, 2013
Some people protest with a picket sign, others with a bullhorn. For health information technology consultant Gary Dickinson, his mode of protest is the matrix.
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IT needs to target health disparities, consumer groups say
By Joseph Conn | August 27, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
A coalition of consumer health organizations is calling on federal health information technology policymakers to live up to the congressional mandate that the federal electronic health-record incentive payment program should address health disparities.
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First Databank affiliate acquires HIT company Design Clinicals
By Rachel Landen | August 22, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
An affiliate of San Francisco-based First Databank, which provides health professionals with clinical drug knowledge to aid in medication-related decisions, has acquired Seattle healthcare information technology company Design Clinicals.
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HIMSS seeks six-month extension of Stage 2 deadline
By Joseph Conn | August 20, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society has asked HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and other federal officials to extend the deadline by six months for hospitals, physicians and other eligible professionals to meet Stage 2 meaningful-use criteria for the federal electronic...
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Prime Healthcare Services joins Inland Empire HIE
By Rachel Landen | August 15, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
California's Inland Empire Health Information Exchange is adding Prime Healthcare Services to its network, making patient health information available across all of the hospitals in Prime's fast-growing roster of facilities across the country.
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Surescripts adds 19 information exchanges to its network
By Joseph Conn | August 13, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Surescripts, the for-profit electronic prescription network owned by pharmacy associations and pharmacy benefit management companies, is adding 19 state, regional and private health information exchanges to its portfolio of heath information exchange services.
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