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HIMSS: Nearly all Surveyed Provider Orgs Unready for Pay-for-Value Transition

By Rajiv Leventhal for HCI | Healthcare Informatics Just three percent of survey respondents believe their organization is highly prepared to make the pay-for-value transition, according to the 2016 HIMSS Cost Accounting Survey, unveiled at last week’s HIMSS conference in Las Vegas. Indeed, as more and more healthcare organizations begin adopting some form of a…

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IBM to acquire Truven Health Analytics for $2.6 billion

By Michael Walter for Radiology Business IBM has announced plans to acquire Truven Health Analytics, an Ann Arbor, Mich.-based analytics company, for $2.6 billion. The deal will give IBM access to the data of more than 200 million unique patients, helping it further strengthen the power and capabilities of its cognitive Watson Health unit. “With this acquisition,…

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17 Things to Know About Medical Scribes

By Kelly Gooch for Becker’s Healthcare As physicians look for ways to reduce the clerical load associated with EHR data entry, they are increasingly turning to medical scribes. Scribes help physicians with EHR navigation, retrieval of diagnostic results, documentation and coding. This allows the physician to free up time for patient care. Yet while the…

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Justice Scalia’s Death Leaves Healthcare Cases in Limbo

By Lisa Schencker and Adam Rubenfire for Modern Healthcare The death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who famously said the Affordable Care Act should be called “SCOTUScare,” leaves in limbo a number of healthcare-related cases. The news also quickly sparked a debate over who would replace him amid the presidential campaign. Scalia died Friday,…

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25 Quotes That Show Just How Fed Up Physicians Are With EHRs

By Max Green for Becker’s Health IT & CIO Review More than half of the physicians who bill Medicare in the U.S. are currently being penalized 1 percent of their 2015 payments as a result of the meaningful use program, according to Steven J. Stack, MD, president of the American Medical Association. “Imagine, in a world…

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From Meaningful Use to Meaningful Outcomes

By Marc Probst, CIO and Vice President, Intermountain Healthcare for (HCI) Healthcare Informatics The federal government recently announced that its mandate for health information technology will move in a different direction. The change represents a vital opportunity that could lead to dramatic improvements in health care delivery. Andy Slavitt, Acting Administrator of the U.S. Centers…

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2016 Election Candidates’ Stances on Health Care

By Matt O’Connor for (H&HN) Hospitals & Health Networks Here are the 8 presidential election candidates’ stances on health care, taken directly from their websites. Jeb Bush: Website ObamaCare is a government takeover of more than one-sixth of the American economy, and it epitomizes why Americans are so fed up with Washington. To win on repeal, conservatives…

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Dolbey Sweeps KLAS Research Speech Recognition Categories

CINCINNATI, OH – For the fourth consecutive year (2012, 2013, 2014 & 2015/2016), Dolbey was named Best in KLAS for Speech Recognition. Dolbey earned this year’s 2015/2016 Best in KLAS award for its patented Fusion SpeechEMR® front-end speech software. Dolbey’s back-end speech product, Fusion Speech®, also earned the 2015/2016 KLAS Category Leader award for the…

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Did Healthcare Policy Issues Play a Role in the Iowa Presidential Caucus Results?

By Harris Meyer for Modern Healthcare After attacking Donald Trump over the weekend for his previous favorable remarks about single-payer healthcare, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz squeaked out a victory over the billionaire New York developer in the Iowa presidential caucuses Monday night, with Florida Sen. Marco Rubio trailing close behind. Meanwhile, the Iowa Democratic Party declared…

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Hacking Accounted for 98 Percent of Healthcare Data Breaches in 2015, Report Says

By Heather Landi for Healthcare Informatics While lost and theft of employee devices accounted for the majority (68 percent) of healthcare data breaches in 2014, last year was a different story, with 98 percent of breaches due to hacking and IT-related incidents, according to a Bitglass Healthcare Breach Report. The report cites a series of…

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