PERSONAL CONNECTED HEALTH ALLIANCE APPOINTS PATRICIA MECHAEL AS EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, ESTABLISHES NEW MISSION AND STRATEGY TO SUPPORT SUSTAINED ADOPTION OF PERSONAL CONNECTED HEALTH
ARLINGTON, VA and AMSTERDAM (June 7, 2016) – The Personal Connected Health Alliance (PCHA) today announced the appointment of Patricia (Patty) Mechael, PhD, as its Executive Vice President, and...
New COACH/CHIME Partnership Opens Doors for Canada's Executive Health Informatics Leaders
March 30, 2016, ANN ARBOR, MI, & TORONTO, ON — The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and COACH: Canada's Health Informatics Association are pleased to...
AHIMA Launches Petition for National Voluntary Patient Safety Identifier
CHICAGO – March 21, 2016 – The American Health Information Management Association announced today it has launched a petition to ask the White House to address the need for a national...
HHS announces major commitments from healthcare industry to make electronic health records work better for patients and providers
Today, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell announced that companies that provide 90 percent of electronic health records used by U.S. hospitals, the...
Statement by Theranos on CMS Audit Results
We received a report from CMS documenting their findings from a scheduled survey in our Newark, CA lab that took place last fall. In line with our commitment to leading the lab industry in...
MISSING PIECES: MAJOR HEALTH DATABASE HAS DEEP FLAWS
Fast Facts: --Database that monitors U.S. hospitalizations underreports important health risk factors. --The accuracy of body mass and alcohol and tobacco use data is critical for health care reform...
Majority of Americans Don't Use Digital Technology to Access their Doctors
WASHINGTON, D.C. (November 04, 2015) – Today, Americans manage much of their lives through digital and electronic tools, except when it comes to healthcare. According to a new Nielsen survey...
Home Care Alliance of Massachusetts Launches HIT Adoption Initiative
Waltham, Mass., October 21, 2015 – October marks the beginning of the Home Care Alliance (HCA) of Massachusetts' Health Information Technology (HIT) adoption project. With funding support from...
Veterans Health Administration and Indian Health Service Become First Federal Agencies to Gain Interoperability via DirectExchange
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Indian Health Service's (IHS) recent accreditation by the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC) and...
OCR Invites Developers to ask questions about HIPAA Privacy and Security
The Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights has launched a new platform [http://HIPAAQsportal.hhs.gov] for mobile health developers and others interested in the intersection...
81 percent of healthcare organizations have been compromised by cyberattacks in past 2 years: KPMG survey
NEW YORK, Aug. 26 – Eighty-one percent of health care executives say that their organizations have been compromised by at least one malware, botnet, or other cyber-attack during the past two...
New NCQA eMeasure Certification Program to Expand HIT Data Use in Measure Reporting
WASHINGTON, DC—The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) has launched an eMeasure Certification program to certify an organization's software code that produces electronic clinical...
Leidos Defense Healthcare Management System Modernization contract
Leidos, Inc., Reston, Virginia was awarded a ceiling $4,336,822,777 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, with firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost-plus-incentive fee, and...
More than $38 million awarded to improve coordinated health information sharing in communities across America
As part of the Administration's efforts to create an interoperable learning health system that achieves better care, smarter spending and healthier people, the Department of Health and Human...
Most Wired Hospitals Focus on Security and Patient Engagement
ANN ARBOR, MI and CHICAGO, July 9, 2015 - Health data security and patient engagement are top priorities for the nation's hospitals, according to results of the 17th annual HealthCare's Most...
Steven J. Stack, M.D., Inaugurated as 170th President of AMA
CHICAGO - Steven J. Stack, M.D., an emergency physician practicing in Lexington, Ky., has been sworn in as the 170thpresident of the American Medical Association (AMA), the nation's largest physician...
CMS announces entrepreneurs and innovators to access Medicare data
Today at Health Datapalooza, the acting Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator, Andy Slavitt, announced a new policy that for the first time will allow innovators and...
CMS Conducts Second Successful Medicare FFS ICD-10 End-to-End Testing Week in April
From April 27 through May 1, 2015, Medicare Fee-For-Service (FFS) health care providers, clearinghouses, and billing agencies participated in a second successful ICD-10 end-to-end testing week with...
Carena Partnerships Expand Telemedicine Solutions to 6.3 Million People
Carena Partnerships Expand Telemedicine Solutions to 6.3 Million People
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The 21st Century Cures Act: UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED
WASHINGTON, DC – The House Energy and Commerce Committee today unanimously approved the nonpartisan 21st Century Cures Act 51-0. The nonpartisan legislation will help to modernize and...
