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Altera Digital Health and Columbus Community Hospital Extend Partnership by Seven Years

Digital Health Global

A Paragon client since 2010, the 50-bed hospital will also now leverage upgrade services as part of its Altera subscription to ensure it remains up to date with the EHR and takes full advantage of future Paragon releases.

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Regulators Need to Pay More Attention to Long-term and Nursing Care

Healthcare IT Today

But these facilities are afterthoughts in our health care system, and were excluded in particular from the huge digitization of health care triggered in the United States by the 2009 HITECH act and 2010 Affordable Care Act. The next step would be to achieve real interoperability in health records, a still elusive goal.

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Modernizing Medicine To Pay $45 Million To Settle False Claims, Kickback Allegations

Healthcare IT Today

EHR vendor Modernizing Medicine has agreed to pay $45 million to the federal government to settle a whistleblower suit alleging that the vendor engaged in varied kickback schemes as well as causing its provider customers to submit false claims. The lawsuit was filed in 2017 by law firms Phillips and Cohen LLP and Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC.

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2019: Healthcare IT gains new ground

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

2019: Year in Review It's been an eventful year for health IT. But at the tail end of the 'teens, we see a flowering of innovation that could only have been dreamed of in 2010. Experts from across the health IT field will share insights about everything from AI and cloud computing to telemedicine and population health.

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A booming digital health market, and an elusive trifecta

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

While COVID-19 has accelerated the shift towards digital health, it has also given rise to a surge in workloads for CIOs and Chief Digital Officers. There is unprecedented opportunity for digital health solution providers, arising from the digitalization of core care delivery services.

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Toward a Wider Adoption of Digital Insurance Cards

Healthcare IT Today

Pollak says that any EHR supporting the SMART App Launch Framework can install an application to do the validation. To be federally certified, an EHR has to support that framework. is a greatly expanded version of the classic Blue Button created by the Department of Veteran Affairs in 2010. Version 2.0

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Parsing eCW’s $155M payment to the government

Docnotes

Before Health IT Certification. Before there was certification, Health IT development companies (some people call them “vendors”) created software and sold the software with claims of improved provider productivity, improved public health, and (yup) improved billing (among other impressive capabilities ).

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