EHRs

Holon Solutions and the Texas Organization of Rural & Community Hospitals announced an agreement with North Texas Medical Center to build a health information exchange that will connect the hospital with physician clinics in the surrounding area.

As the deadline for ICD-10 conversion approaches, providers face a variety of potential challenges and concerns, from clinical documentation improvement to the transition's impact on productivity.

Citizens Medical Center in Victoria, Texas, has selected Franklin, Tenn.-based M*Modal as the hospital's exclusive provider of transcription services and speech recognition technologies.

The Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare has partnered with a group of health insurers to launch a coordination of benefits registry that aims to improve healthcare claims processes.

With the transition to ICD-10 fast approaching, healthcare providers need to focus on making sure they're ready for the switch.

In a Medical Practice Insider report, Jonathan Conley, product manager at Emdeon, discusses ways to make sure that a medical practice's electronic health record system, as well as the staff, for the transition to ICD-10.

Analyzing the impact that ICD-10 will have on all aspects of physician practice workflow is an important step in preparation, according to a Physicians Practice report.

Mortsel, Belgium-based Agfa HealthCare will reveal enhancements and improvements to its ICIS imaging information management system at HIMSS 2014.

The Medical Group Management Association conducted a study of ICD-10 readiness and found less than 10 percent of practices have made significant progress to prepare for the transition.

Four lessons learned on smoothing the transition from ICD-9.