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Practice Fusion partnering with BioReference Laboratories

San Francisco-based Practice Fusion, an electronic health record community for physicians, is partnering with BioReference Laboratories of Elmwood Park, N.J., the third-largest full service laboratory in the United States.

ACR Image Metrix completes second year in operation

ACR Image Metrix, an imaging contract research organization based in Philadelphia, has completed its second year of operation.

Pushing for the Mainstream

Its hard to believe that 9 months ago the term meaningful use wasnt in our everyday vocabulary. Now it is top of mind and a topic of nearly every health IT strategy meeting. While a final definition isnt now expected until Q2 2010, for sure it will include reporting quality measures and being able to share information among clinics, hospitals and government health agencies.

Preparing for Meaningful Use: Dont Overlook Your Information Infrastructure

Since the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) in February, much debate and a flurry of activity has centered on the economic encouragement offered to healthcare providers for the adoption and use of EMRs.

Preparing for ARRA HITECH Readiness With a Tiered Information Infrastructure

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WellStar Health Systema not-for-profit system in Atlanta comprised of five hospitals and a 400-physician group practiceis dedicated to providing world-class healthcare for a community of 600,000.

Meaningful Discussion on Meaningful Use: What You Need to Do Now

Meaningful use. Learn those two words. Understand them. They likely will consume our professional lives for years to comeif they havent already begun to. Meaningful use is, of course, the standard by which hospitals and medical practice will qualify for federal stimulus funding for adopting electronic health records. The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, the health IT portion of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, calls for providers to demonstrate meaningful use of health IT starting in 2011.

IHTSDO and openEHR to partner

The International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization (IHTSDO) and the openEHR Foundation have begun a collaborative program on developing clinical terminologies and archetype-based EHR structures.

Terms of Engagement: Gaining Physician Mindshare

As physicians, we have a profound influence on others who look to us for leadership. If clinical leaders are disengaged and misaligned with an organizational mission, change strategies can fail before they begin. Where physicians go, the rest of the organization will followand the most successful healthcare leaders in the nation have figured this out.

Around the web

U.S. health systems are increasingly leveraging digital health to conduct their operations, but how health systems are using digital health in their strategies can vary widely.

When human counselors are unavailable to provide work-based wellness coaching, robots can substitute—as long as the workers are comfortable with emerging technologies and the machines aren’t overly humanlike.

A vendor that supplies EHR software to public health agencies is partnering with a health-tech startup in the cloud-communications space to equip state and local governments for managing their response to the COVID-19 crisis.