93% of doctors reported actively using electronic medical records (EMR) in an annual survey by Accenture. 3,700 physicians in eight countries: Australia, Canada, England, France,…
Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI), one of the nation’s largest non-profit health providers and Accenture have teamed on a nine-month initiative that will apply analytics to…
Today, at the HIMSS 2013 conference, Accenture released initial U.S. findings from an eight-country physician survey measuring the global use of health information technology. The…
HHS issues final rules on HIPAA, HITECH – Mississippi, New Mexico first states to achieve compliance
At the end of January the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued final rules and guidance that amends the Health Insurance Portability and…
Yesterday, the New York City Economic Development Corporation and Health 2.0 announced $50,000 in awards to New York-based health care companies and a the launch…
The New England Telehealth Consortium (NETC) has awarded a four year contract to Hughes Network Systems, to provide high-speed satellite services for mobile telehealth clinics…
The New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC), in partnership Health 2.0, invites designers and developers to participate in the Patient Portal for New Yorkers Design Challenge…
The percent of physicians e-prescribing using an EHR has increased in all 50 states and in the District of Columbia, according to a new brief…
Several states that announced opposition to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) ahead of the election, are now wrestling with how to implement state requirements after…
In October, CivSource noted a troubling trend developing within the Health IT world – the rise of broad based, innovation limiting patents. In the story,…
