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Speech Recognition Technology Making its Way Into EHR Systems
By John Moore for SearchHealthIT.com Health care providers over the years have raised a number of objections to electronic health records — they cost too much, disrupt practices already pressed for time and fail to mesh with the way medical offices work. But there’s an even more fundamental digital challenge — some doctors don’t want to busy their fingers on a keyboard. Indeed, manual…
Traci MillerHow the seemingly largest hospital bill came to be
Written for FierceHealthcare It may be the largest hospital bill ever. Estimated at $9.2 million, including interest, the bill is from Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital for the care of deceased Tameka Jaqway Campwell. Although the American Hospital Association, the Health Care Financial Management Association, and even the Guinness Book of Records couldn’t confirm the highest hospital bill in history, according to Associated Press (AP),…
Traci Miller6 Major Disruptions Still To Come In Healthcare
BY Francine Hardaway for Fast Company As the last of the large American industries to undergo forcible automation, healthcare is currently in a state of prolonged agony. The HealthTech NextGen 2011 Conference, held in San Francisco recently, highlighted this by calling attention to at least 6 disruptive changes that are still ahead in healthcare. These range from physician workflow to patient responsibility, to perhaps…
Traci MillerMost Wired Hospitals List ‘Carries More Weight’ With Redesign
By Molly Merrill, Associate Editor, HealthCare IT News In its 13th year, the Most Wired hospitals and health systems list, put out by Hospitals & Health Networks, seems to have upped its value as an indicator of hospital care, rather than just a marketing tool. The hospitals on this year’s list showed strides in computerized physician order entry, the ability to restore data after…
Traci MillerLessons Learned From a Recent Amazon Outage
By Gregory Machler, originally posted at Computerworld.com Another Amazon cloud-services outage occurred on Sunday, August 7th in a Dublin, Ireland data center. This one occurred due to a lightning strike that hit a transformer near the Dublin data center. It led to an explosion and fire that knocked out all utility services thereby leading to a total data center outage. Amazon had its only…
Traci Miller50 Top Grossing Non-Profit Hospitals in America
Written by Jaimie Oh, Originally posted at Becker’s Hospital Review Here are the 50 top grossing non-profit hospitals in the United States listed by gross revenue, according to CMS cost report data analyzed by American Hospital Directory. Note: The hospital total patient revenues reported here are reported to CMS by the hospitals in their most recent cost reports and, in some cases, may include…
Traci MillerMeaningful Use Incentives Driving EMR Adoption, but Many Hospitals Still Expect to Use Paper Records
Click here to learn how to incorporate speech recognition into any EMR with Fusion SpeechEMR  Originally published at BusinessWire.com New Survey from Iron Mountain Shows Hospitals Lack Standard Approach to Digitizing Patient Records; 1 in 4 Spending $100 Million or More One year after the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) set criteria for the meaningful use of electronic health records, 70 percent…
Traci MillerReport: Global Hospital Information Systems Market Forecast to Grow at a CAGR of 10% from 2010-2017
Originally published in TransWorldNews.Com The global Hospital Information Systems (HIS) market was valued at $7.4 billion in 2010, and is forecast to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 10% to reach about $14.7 billion by 2017. The high growth forecast for the period 2010-2017 is significantly influenced by accelerated efforts from the public and private sectors around the world to contain…
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