Profile of Nicole Lewis
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Articles by Nicole Lewis
posted in July 2010
7/30/2010
Up to $1 million in grants per state will be available from the Department of Health and Human Services to help establish health insurance exchanges.
7/29/2010
Federal report raises numerous questions about whether electronic health records and other technologies can advance the patient centered medical home model.
7/28/2010
Greenway PrimeSuite electronic health record system centralizes patient records, clinical tools, billing, and other medical administrative functions in a single database.
7/27/2010
Healthcare is one of the areas the Federal Communications Commission sees as benefiting from expansion of broadband in the U.S.
7/26/2010
Online consultations between doctors and patients will become essential as more people access doctors under health reform, says Forrester Research.
7/23/2010
The data from the Hospital Compare Tool includes information on how well hospitals care for patients with heart attacks, protect outpatients from surgical infections and use of imaging equipment.
7/23/2010
Cisco finds doctors must alter reimbursement and scheduling practices to gain benefits of videoconferencing.
7/22/2010
Release of final meaningful use rules is expected to further accelerate the adoption and deployment of electronic health records that boosted Allscripts quarterly income almost 20%.
7/21/2010
The Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2010 calls for a modification to the current system for rating disabilities that will add greater complexity to computer tracking systems.
7/20/2010
Investment in healthcare outpaced IT venture capital investment in the second quarter, increasing 91% from a year ago to $157 million.
7/19/2010
The Centricity electronic medical record Advanced ePrescribing solution that uses biometrics to authenticate physicians ordering patient medications has been approved by the Ohio Pharmacy Board.
7/16/2010
The Verizon Health Information Exchange service allows doctors and healthcare providers to store, manage and share patients' electronic medical records via an online portal regardless of IT systems and specific protocols.
7/15/2010
The initiative will drive IBM's cloud computing, data analytics plans across the healthcare industry to enhance evidence generation, service quality, privacy and new incentive models.
7/14/2010
Paper-based patient charts are converted to digital files for transfer into electronic medical records.
7/13/2010
Kaiser Permanente finds secure patient-physician communications systems result in better care for diabetes and hypertension.
7/12/2010
Primary care physicians and specialist doctors are using electronic medical records more, and more than half have smartphones, according to a Knowledge Networks study.
7/8/2010
The data from the Hospital Compare Tool includes information on how well hospitals care for patients with heart attacks, protect outpatients from surgical infections and use of imaging equipment.
7/7/2010
Only 15% of hospital picture archiving and communications systems buyers are purchasing the systems for the first time; most are replacing or upgrading older models.
7/2/2010
The healthcare industry is among the fastest growing handheld device markets, and should hit $8.8 billion this year, says Kalorama Information.
7/1/2010
Community Health has moved its IT environment to Peak 10's virtualized platform for managed hosting, security, and backup.