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Problem List Guidance in the EHR

Originally published by AHIMA Problem lists facilitate continuity of patient care by providing a comprehensive and accessible list of patient problems in one place. Problem lists used within health records are a list of illnesses, injuries, and other factors that affect the health of an individual patient, usually identifying the time of occurrence or identification…

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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…

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How 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…

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Most 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…

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50 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…

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Meaningful 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…

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Report: 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…

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Electronic Medical Records market to reach $6 billion by 2015

Click here to learn how to incorporate speech recognition into any EMR with Fusion SpeechEMR Originally published in eHealth, June 2011 U.S. The U.S. EMR market is expected to grow from $2,177 million in 2009 to $6,054 million in 2015 at an estimated CAGR of 18.1 percent during the forecast period 2010-2015. Though large-sized healthcare practices…

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Dolbey Integrates Philips SpeechExec for iPhone and BlackBerry

Dolbey’s dictation and transcription workflow solutions now support the mobile dictation applications from Philips Speech Processing. Philips SpeechExec applications for iPhone and Blackberry devices provide a wireless dictation tool that securely sends dictations over a network or Internet connection. Dolbey’s dictation workflow solutions include Fusion Voice for enterprise dictation management and Atom Dictation for dictation…

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No Code Left Behind

By Elizabeth S. Roop, For The Record, Vol. 23 No. 5 P. 10 Backed by a powerful engine, computer-assisted coding provides a comprehensive solution capable of reading and interpreting reports. With HIT system acquisition and implementation and the training required to meet a growing number of mandates, it is difficult to envision any hospital shifting…

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