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Intelerad Acquires Life Image, Establishing the Clear Medical Image Exchange Market Leader and Path to a Global Open Image Exchange Network

Healthcare IT Today

“Bringing together two of the industry’s leading image exchange providers further solidifies Intelerad’s commitment to helping clinicians and patients lead the revolution in imaging from a world of siloed PACS to a future of interoperable image exchange.”. Leading healthcare systems have been pushing for seamless interoperability. “At

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Digital health is ready for its second act. Will it deliver on its promise to empower patients and providers?

Redox

And as a company leading the charge to improve interoperability, we’ve observed that some lessons learned in the startup world may help our healthcare industry go where it wants and needs to go faster and without the pain of earlier transitions. Laying the foundation for Health IT.

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The Tech Giants are Coming for Healthcare

Lloyd Price

TPA Amazon realizes that they could significantly lower the costs of administrative services by solving interoperability. Google started a health-records initiative in 2008, but shut it down by 2011, citing poor adoption. But how easy will it actually be? Several of them have made efforts in the past and failed.

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Multiple formats of the same Document content

Healthcare Exchange Standards

They could all have been created at the same time, from the same underlying EHR data, simply for the purpose of satisfying the largest range of clients. focused more on template inheritance -- Template Identifiers, Business Rules and Degrees of Interoperability -- with a cool graphic are laying around. In this case, which one is prime?

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Electronic Prescribing for Controlled Substances Set to Take Off

Healthcare IT Today

History of EPCS Kyle Zebley, head of public policy American Telemedicine Association (ATA) , says that Congress called on the DEA to implement a policy for a special controlled substance registration process in 2008. This requirement languished for the past 15 years, probably because the DEA had a multitude of competing priorities.

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How Do Patient Portals and Personal Health Records Differ?

Lloyd Price

TETHERED PERSONAL HEALTH RECORDS VERSUS PATIENT PORTALS A tethered PHR, as defined by the ONC, is an online interface tied to an EHR with which patients may view and sometimes interact with their health data. Google launched its standalone PHR, Google Health, back in 2008 as health IT began to gain traction through government incentives.

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HIStalk Interviews Helen Waters, EVP, Meditech

HIStalk Interviews

Expanse for us represents the development over several years of an EHR that we designed for the post-Meaningful Use era. I would put it in the context of 2007 and 2008, when a brand new user experience was introduced to the world by Apple. There are major established players in the EHR space. Very fair comments on all fronts.

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