HIMSS recently published its annual healthcare forecast for the year 2019. The report contains analysis and commentary from HIMSS leaders, PCHAlliance, Health 2.0 and Healthbox. The report features a birds-eye of trends and levers of change in the healthcare industry. This annual forecast by HIMSS aims to alert healthcare leaders, experts, clinicians, [...]
Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society or HIMSS is going to hold its annual Global Conference & Exhibition; HIMSS19, from February 11th to February 15th in Orlando. The renowned health IT conference will be housed at the Orange County Convention Center and will bring together global healthcare industry stakeholders with […]
All EMR software companies offering free Electronic Medical Records systems (EMR systems) seem to have disappeared with the most prominent vendor Practice Fusion EHR getting acquired by AllScripts earlier this year. This has meant that healthcare providers with a low budget and very basic requirements must now choose […]
According to a recent report by Zacks, Massachusetts based leading Electronic Health Records (EHR) Software Company Athenahealth, Inc. or ATHN has surpassed all the estimations in the last four quarters. For the ongoing quarter in 2018, the Electronic Medical Records (EMR) […]
New York hedge fund Elliott, led by billionaire Paul Singer, has announced that it made a takeover offer to Athnahealth that was all-cash in nature. The organization valued Athenahealth at a staggering $6.46 billion, but the online platform offering providers ease in managing their practices […]
So fat the meaningful use EHR incentive program has effectively served its purpose of getting as many hospitals as possible to implement electronic health records platforms. Nearly every hospital is using an EMR system today. […]
Health IT market is expected to be worth $8.5 Billion by 2022, according to a new report released by Deltek. The study claimed that the market was actually being sustained by the EHR initiative of US Department of Veteran Affairs. […]
The IT backbone of one of the largest Catholic health systems in the USA, Mercy Technology Services, has launched its latest healthcare cloud service that is designed to meet the requirements of today’s highly regulated health IT market. […]
The major aim behind this is to streamline interoperability between public health agencies and private systems for the purpose of disease monitoring and rapid outbreak response. A collaboration of healthcare, health information technology and public health organizations […]
Radiology practices such as RadNet has carefully deployed natural language processing tools in order to help them in tackling over-utilization along with performing tasks that are quite challenging for humans. All players in the US healthcare industry know that 2019’s positive or negative Medicare payment adjustments […]