Even a 10 percent increase in the hospital use of electronic medical records could save 16 babies for every 100,000 live births in the U.S. And, making a complete national transition to EHRs could save an estimated 6,400 infants each year nationwide, according to a new study published in the Journal of Political Economy. The [...]
The Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH) has launched a transition committee to make recommendations about multi-stakeholder governance of its Committee on Operating Rules for Information Exchange (CORE). The CORE project, which CAQH began in 2005, has created rules for the exchange of information related to healthcare coverage and insurance payments. CORE seeks to enable [...]
Awarepoint to Showcase Industry-Leading Real-time Location System (RTLS) at AONE Annual MeetingLive demo to highlight how to achieve positive clinical and financial outcomes SAN DIEGO ? April 11, 2011 ? Awarepoint Corporation announced today that it will showcase its Enterprise Awareness and Real-time Location System (RTLS) at Booth #901 during the American Organization of Nurse [...]
Amagine, Inc., a subsidiary of the American Medical Association, has announced the nationwide availability of its health IT solutions platform with the same name. That platform offers physicians more than 20 different products, ranging from e-prescribing software to electronic health records and consulting resources. Amagine will provide consultants to help physicians assess their readiness for the [...]
Access Announces e-Signature V. 7, Enabling Patients to Securely Authorize e-Forms New product release from the world?s leading electronic forms management, automation & workflow provider enables hospitals to create paperless patient registration & bedside consent processes.Hundreds of hospitals worldwide have eliminated the financial, productivity and environmental costs of managing paper forms with Access Enterprise Forms [...]
Medicity Announces Broad Support of Federal Direct Project, Enables Customers to Offer HISP ServicesUsing Medicity’s technology, Colorado and Ohio will be among the first statewide HIEs to offer HISP services to facilitate the goal of a nationwide interconnected health system SALT LAKE CITY, MAY 5, 2011–Medicity, the industry standard for health information exchange (HIE), today [...]
Interesting news this morning from the Wall Street Journal:Some managers believe Mr. Page will eliminate or downgrade projects he doesn’t believe are worthwhile, freeing up employees to work on more important initiatives, these people said. One project expected to get less support is Google Health, which lets people store medical records and other health data [...]
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) is seeking a vendor to develop and test methods of obtaining electronic patient consent for the use of personal data in health information exchanges (HIE).The vendor who wins the contract will have to find a way to involve patients in the development, use and evaluation [...]
Patients felt even more comfortable than physicians when it came to using an electronic health record (EHR) system–and also felt that the information contained in the record was more accurate when they physically saw it being entered electronically, according to a survey by Tampa-based Sage Healthcare Division. Overall, the study found that more than 81 [...]
Individualized treatment guidelines can help doctors prevent more heart attacks and strokes than they can by using population-based protocols, according to a new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Researchers found that doctors can develop these guidelines for their patients by using computerized risk calculators integrated with their electronic health records.The study compared the [...]
