In a $1.4 Billion deal, Chinese e-commerce Company Alibaba Group Holding Ltd will invest few of its pharmacy assets in to a listed healthcare unit, said the firm in a statement made on May 29. Ali JK Nutritional Products Ltd, the company which uses Alibaba’s Tmall platform to sell medical products, healthcare devices, [...]
Before going live, there is months of preparation that is required for Epic’s installation. However, there still can be many challenges and issues during or after the implementation. The chief technology officer of uniprint, Mr. Fu, gathered information and discussed about the past experiences of successful implementations […]
The new feature in the iPhone allows its users to download, customize, view and share their health records. KLAS enterprises hired companies that tested all the 12 beta delivery systems and they found out that, Tech giant Apple launches electronic health record, which is not only a marketing technique but has a great potential [...]
The acting CIO Scott Blackburn resigned last week and Secretary David Shulkin was fired by the President in March, 2018. According to the agency officials, the new leadership is “now firmly aligned” with the short-term priorities of the President, including Electronic Health Record modernization. […]
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 […]
The Defense Health Agency mulls over applying new technology to manage the increasing clinical data it receives from its EHR modernization. The Defense Department’s migration to Cerner is going at a good pace and the Defense Health Agency (DHA) is gathering information […]
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. […]
The changes to the program eliminate 25 measures which ultimately leads to saving hospitals more than 2 million hours of work. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma on Tuesday announced Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has overhauled the meaningful use EHR incentive program, […]
San Francisco-based Dignity Health has worked in sync with the Apple even before it beta-tested its Health Records project. Now iPhone Developer has 39 hospitals on board and Dignity Health continues to work with it as its longtime collaborator. The reason behind all this remains to be the change […]
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. […]