Client News Coverage

Approximately 22 million people are referred to another doctor by a physician each year, according to data compiled by San Francisco-based electronic health records (EHR) provider Practice Fusion. But only 16% of primary care providers surveyed said they use an electronic process to send patient records for referrals, according to poll by Growth Survey Research Practice Fusion.

Physician's Money Digest»

Effective master patient index (MPI) management is a critical element of any hospital's data integrity strategy, ensuring that patient information is clean, accurate and duplicate-free when used for any aspect of care or administration. Further, high-quality data enhances care, quality and safety.

Advance for Health Information Professionals»

Effective master patient index (MPI) management is a critical element of any hospital's data integrity strategy, ensuring that patient information is clean, accurate and duplicate-free when used for any aspect of care or administration. Further, high-quality data enhances care, quality and safety.

Executive Insights»

Whether it's the migration to value-based purchasing and pay for performance, increased scrutiny under the federal recovery audit contractor program or simply achieving internal benchmarks, pressure is mounting on hospitals to improve clinical documentation.

Hospitals & Health Networks»

Healthcare IT leaders nationwide are moving forward steadily to introduce evidence-based care tools into clinician workflows, both with regard to the development of order sets in computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems, as well as in the context of the medical diagnosis process. As they advance in these areas, they are finding that building everything from scratch is simply too labor-intensive a prospect. And as hospitals and medical groups turn increasingly to the commercially sponsored offerings available, they are finding the insertion of evidence-based decision support to be a plus in winning doctors over to CPOE adoption.

Healthcare Informatics»

Duplicate patient records have long been a serious problem for hospitals, creating the potential for missing or inaccurate patient information that can lead to life-threatening care situations. They are also a substantial drain on financial, health information management (HIM), and IT resources.

HISTalk Readers Write»

Wolters Kluwer Health, a provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that its ProVation MD software has received top ranking in the Clinical Procedure Documentation Category of the 2010 Top 20 Best in KLAS Awards: Software & Professional Services report.

Becker's ASC Review»

COSTA MESA, Calif. – Dec. 2010 – CardFlex, Inc., a financial services and payment solution company, has appointed Ed Barbara as chief revenue officer. In this position, Barbara will be responsible for expanding the firm’s presence in direct response marketing, establishing new vertical markets and creating new revenue streams.

Maddux News Wire»

College of Notre Dame of Maryland is the recipient of a Facts & Comparisons “ACE” Award from Wolters Kluwer Health. The $10,000 grant will be used to develop drug information (DI) and pharmacy informatics curricula in the School of Pharmacy.

Wolters Kluwer Health has entered into an agreement to acquire Pharmacy OneSource, a healthcare software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider that helps hospitals manage patient safety, compliance and efficiency.

CMIO»

In early July, Palmetto Physician Connections, a medical home network of physicians, formed with the goal of coordinating better care at a lower cost for South Carolina’s Medicaid population. According to Palmetto’s Medical Director and family physician Gerald Harmon, M.D., his goal is to recruit 2,000 OB/GYNs, internists, family physicians, and pediatricians by 2011 Q1 to bolster the around 200 providers currently in the Palmetto network.

Healthcare Informatics»

The data integrity and patient safety challenges confronting hospitals as they implement electronic health records (EHRs) and the evolving practice of health information management (HIM) to manage those issues are the focus of a joint presentation by Just Associates, Inc. and Exempla Healthcare at the 2010 Congress of International Federation of Health Record Organizations (IFHRO) underway in Milan.

Executive Insights»

Executives at HealthPlan Holdings Inc. appointed John S. Watts, Jr. as the company’s new chairman. Based in Tampa, HealthPlan provides outsourcing services to insurance companies.

Gulf Coast Business Review»

To qualify for incentive payments from Medicare and Medicaid under the HITECH Act, provider organizations must document meaningful use of electronic health records. That will require the collecting, organizing and reporting of initially 20 measures of meaningful use for eligible professionals and 19 measures for hospitals, with more measures coming in 2013 and 2015.

HealthData Management»