Healthcare system integration is crucial to contributing to successful electronic health records allowing for streamlined communication of critical patient data throughout the entire patient care cycle. Summit Healthcare has connected over 180 unique vendor systems and we continue to work to help organizations solve their many complex integration challenges.
Read below for industry news on healthcare system integration.
4/30/2013
CMS offers answers to sequestration questions
Recently, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) offered clarification for some of the most frequently asked questions concerning the effects of the recent budget sequestration on the healthcare industry.
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4/8/2013
CMS updates Meaningful Use program qualifications
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released updates concerning the 2014 clinical quality measures (CQMs) for hospitals eager to participate in the federal electronic health record (EHR) incentive programs.
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4/5/2013
Planning essential for EHR success
Mitzi Cardenas, senior vice president of strategy, business development and performance integration at Truman Medical Centers, emphasized the importance of planning when implementing EHR systems.
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4/4/2013
US House considering bill altering MU requirements
The U.S. House of Representatives is currently considering exemptions from and alterations to the consequences for organizations and individuals that fail to meet the upcoming meaningful use deadlines.
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4/2/2013
Achieving Stage 2 Meaningful Use a complex task
The deadline for achieving Stage 1 Meaningful Use is rapidly approaching, and consequently many hospitals have already reached this level and are looking ahead to Stage 2. However, the requirements for reaching Stage 2 are significantly more complex and challenging than those for the earlier level.
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3/6/2013
HIMSS13 panelist highlights potential of EHR analytics
Hospitals and other healthcare providers are beginning to combine the power of big data analytics with their existing electronic health record (EHR) systems to develop strategies for improving care, overall efficiency and more
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2/12/2013
DOD, VA abandon plan to unite EHR systems
The Department of Defense (DOD) and VA have decided to abandon their plan to pursue iEHR as a means of cutting costs. Instead, they will pursue interoperability between existing EHR solutions.
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12/31/2012
Meaningful use Stage 2 fast approaching
Writing for MedCity News, Kresimir Perharda recently suggested that one of the most significant trends that will likely emerge in 2013 is the pursuit of Meaningful Use Stage 2.
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12/28/2012
EHRs to play big role in 2013
Several additonal healthcare IT executives emphasized the importance of EHR systems for improving the performance of healthcare providers in 2013 in a roundtable discussion with Becker's Hospital Review.
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12/24/2012
California striving to reduce healthcare costs
A task force appointed by Governor Jerry Brown has released recommendations that may help in this regard. Among the most prominent suggestions are healthier living styles for citizens of the state and more advanced health systems to improve the efficiency of patient care.
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11/30/2012
Healthcare industry facing data deluge
Data management is an issue in a variety of industries, but healthcare faces a unique challenge because the data explosion is happening at an extremely rapid pace.
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11/14/2012
URAC working to formalize clinical integration methods
While clinical integration is becoming a priority across the healthcare industry, models for clinical integration are so broad that many stakeholders are struggling to clearly define the best ways to go about integrating care processes.
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10/30/2012
IT advances vital for care integration plans
Care integration processes enable hospitals to work in conjunction with physician offices, clinics and other organizations in the region to coordinate care and integrate treatment processes.
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10/18/2012
HL7 standard gaining relevance
With the rise of EHR systems across much of the healthcare industry, the need for systems that support data sharing is becoming critical.
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10/16/2012
Big data gaining relevance in healthcare
The big data movement has been sweeping through a variety of industries in recent years. Healthcare now seems poised to take the dive into big data and explore how emerging forms of information gathering and analysis can improve operations.
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9/28/2012
Hospital IT staffing issues continuing
Hospitals have always had a difficult relationship with IT, as the core competency of hospital staff is patient care and IT has not traditionally been central in that process.
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9/26/2012
EHRs can pay dividends for doctors
Electronic health records offer the potential to enable major care gains that allow doctors to more efficiently treat patients and better address community-related concerns.
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9/25/2012
Predictive medicine could be the future
The vision for predictive medicine is becoming closer to reality, as advanced health IT tools are able to provide physicians with more detailed and relevant patient data.
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9/18/2012
Analysis playing major role in HIEs
Health information exchanges use a combination of healthcare system integration and a variety of other advanced technologies to enable data sharing across a pre-prescribed organizational setup.
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9/14/2012
Integration acts as catalyst for health IT revolution
With government reform efforts pushing the healthcare industry to move forward quickly into more efficient and effective care, it is not surprising that emerging technologies are playing a major role in the industry.
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8/31/2012
Imaging issues emerging in healthcare climate
Hospital CIOs have a lot to deal with right now, with issues ranging from attesting to new Meaningful Use standards and securing electronic health data to supporting telemedicine initiatives and managing all of the health IT infrastructure that supports these strategies.
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8/24/2012
The way physicians access data could be changing
While social media and advanced collaborative technologies have only been officially embraced in extremely rare cases within healthcare, the broad movement toward such solutions could end up having a major impact on the industry, Computerworld reported.
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8/7/2012
Massachusetts secures $17M to build HIE portal
The Massachusetts governor's office announced recently that it has secured $16.9 million from the Obama administration to build a statewide health information exchange (HIE) portal that will allow hospitals and other care providers to share clinical data over a secure network.
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7/17/2012
EHRs have real-world results
It is often tempting to look at the EHR innovation taking place across the United States and focus heavily on the political, technological and financial issues surrounding the technology.
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6/25/2012
Innovation needed to support EHR implementation
The rapid rise of EHRs has come, to a great extent, at the expense of quality. The problem is not that EHRs are bad or ineffective, but that they have evolved from systems initially designed for alternative purposes.
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6/21/2012
Rotherham NHS Trust turning to Meditech solution
The Rotherham NHS Trust has taken the early steps toward Meditech implementation. Currently, the organization is in the first stage of a large-scale project to deploy the new EHR solution, eHealth Insiders reported.
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5/14/2012
Physicians voice concerns with meaningful use stage 2
A handful of physicians and other medical providers are sounding off against the Medicare and Medicaid guidelines proposed for meaningful use stage 2 of EHRs, claiming the standards would inhibit adoption of the technology.
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4/18/2012
IT ushering in new era of healthcare
EHR systems and other emerging healthcare solutions are rapidly changing the way hospitals, clinics and physician offices function, bringing about a new era of medical practice that is expected to be far more efficient and lead to major care gains.
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4/13/2012
Data sharing key in helping patients throughout care cycle
Patients do not simply go to a doctor, get treated and go home. They do not go to a hospital, undergo surgery, stay overnight and resume life. The care cycle also involves rehab centers, home treatment measures, long-term care and other considerations.
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4/6/2012
CORHIO establishes new HIE in Colorado
The Colorado Regional Health Information Organization recently announced plans to combine a variety of healthcare solutions into a fully formed health information exchange.
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4/5/2012
Revisions to Stage 2 meaningful use already on the horizon
The Stage 2 meaningful use standards could be revised only months after their initial release, as the Health IT Policy Committee is analyzing some of the guidelines pertaining to HIEs and considering adding comments to the initial regulations, GovernmentHealthIT reported.
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3/30/2012
Integration key in large-scale health reform
Efforts to improve the healthcare industry and drive technological innovations that enhance patient care and create fiscal sustainability have already begun to pay dividends.
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3/30/2012
Integration contributes to productivity goals
Actually using EHR infrastructure to improve productivity and generate revenue in healthcare has proven to be something of a roadblock, as the move to electronic records management is so young that many organizations are still moving through the early adoption phase.
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3/28/2012
NIST releases new guidance for EHR evaluation
The National Institute for Standards and Technology recently unveiled a new set of industry guidelines in an effort to help hospitals and other medical providers develop better methods of EHR evaluation.
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3/28/2012
Integration will help take EHR systems to the next level
Ruminating on the implications of presentations at the HIMSS Conference, a recent HealthcareITNews report explained that major changes are on the horizon in the EHR sector for 2012, and many of them stem from advances in healthcare system integration.
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3/20/2012
ONC unveils HIE pilot project
The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT recently announced a new HIE pilot program that will give patients more control over how their data is exchanged between hospitals, physician offices and clinics.
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