EHRs
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On July 15, Farzad Mostashari, MD, the national coordinator for health IT, appeared on NPR's All Things Considered to promote electronic health records as a tool to improve patient safety.
An online system connecting primary care providers and specialists at San Francisco General Hospital helped shorten wait times for specialty services and improved the coordination of care, according to a commentary in the New England Journal of Medicine.
In "HIMSS13: Health IT Leaders Seek Interoperability Solutions," Marion Jenkins, executive vice president at 3T Systems, summarized the key topics discussed at the Health Information Management Systems Society Annual Conference held in New Orleans, March 3-7, 2013.
The American Medical Association and McKesson have announced that they have entered into a licensing relationship to offer healthcare systems a consistent way to identify and track molecular diagnostic tests.
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, N.J., has opened a new outpatient center in New Brunswick, according to a New Brunswick Patch report.
Merge Healthcare's iConnect Enterprise Clinical platform is now available through EMC Select, a program that helps providers acquire components that comprise an information infrastructure.
Merge Healthcare intends to connect its imaging network with the Surescripts Network for Clinical Interoperability in order to enable hospitals and imaging centers to electronically deliver imaging reports to providers through electronic health records on the Surescripts Network.
The North American Spine Society will launch a pilot registry program next month to collect data on spine treatment clinical outcomes.
The American Gastroenterological Association and the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy are asking physicians to complete the Relative Value Update Committee's surveys, according to an AGA news brief written by Lawrence R. Kosinski, MD, MBA, AGAF.
At the 19th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago, Kevin McDonald, Senior Vice President of Sales, Revenue Cycle Solutions Division of SourceMedical Solutions will give a presentation titled "ICD-10."