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. […]
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 U.S. Coast Guard has announced that it would be joining the Department of Defense on its Cerner EHR project. The move is being made to transition the patient records of its clinics and service members to the Department of Defense’s MHS Genesis platform. […]
The coast guard has been making medical records with pencil and paper for approximately three years after their Epic EHR project failed. The U.S. Coast Guard and Department of Defense are joining hands to roll out the same electronic health record, MHS Genesis, in the future. […]