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Is This the Year of the CMIO Break-out?
Digital HealthCare & Productivity | Many health care organizations are well into the second or third phase of technology roll-out programs, and that is causing a profound transformation in some health-IT leadership positions.
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The VistA Question
Digital HealthCare & Productivity | Responding to an upcoming deadline set by Congress, the Military Health System announced last week that the Department of Defense (DoD) is looking at both VistA, used by the Department of Veteran’s Affairs, and its own AHLTA, developed by Northrop Grumman, in an effort to link the two and make them interoperable.
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Rules for EMR and EHR ROI from Michigan State Experience
Digital HealthCare & Productivity | Nailing down ROI for electronic health records (EHRs) must be a deliberately thought-out process, says Michael H. Zaroukian, chief medical officer at Michigan State University (MSU), one of the early adopters of this technology.
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Security Features Not Limited to Paper
Digital HealthCare & Productivity | Electronic prescribers who want to print prescriptions for Medicaid patients no longer will have to spend up to 10 times the cost of plain paper to comply with new tamper-resistance regulations, the result of intense negotiations between government officials, medical societies, the pharmacy industry, paper manufacturers, and two health-IT advocacy groups.
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Medicare Legislation Provides Incentives for ePrescribing
Digital HealthCare & Productivity | The Medicare program could save as much as $156 million over the next five years from error avoidance and efficiency gains from a newly authorized electronic prescribing incentive program, federal officials say.
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Speech Recognition Gaining Ground in Health Care
Digital HealthCare & Productivity | Using speech recognition not just for transcription and dictation, but also for clinical decision support will take it to the next level, says Klaus Stanglmayr of Philips Speech Recognition Systems.
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MEDecision is Just the Latest Payer-Provided PHRs
Digital HealthCare & Productivity | The pending acquisition of collaborative care management services vendor MEDecision by health insurer Health Care Service Corp. highlights a growing interest among payers in mining their vast data warehouses to create personal health records for their enrollees.
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SureScripts, RxHub Merge
Digital HealthCare & Productivity | After years of mostly not competing with each other and occasional talks of combining, the two major electronic prescribing connectivity networks, SureScripts and RxHub, have merged.
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MedeFile Mounts Media Blitz to Push Its PHR
Digital HealthCare & Productivity| With consumer acceptance of personal health records (PHRs) barely registering on the health-IT meter, one vendor is hoping an advertising blitz—and a different business model—can help move the needle. MedeFile International last week launched a month-long ad campaign on major business and news networks.
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New Leapfrog CEO Outlines Priorities
Digital HealthCare & Productivity | Pushing adoption of computerized physician order entry systems (CPOE) is at the top of Leah Binder’s agenda.
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