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HIE market heats up with state grants, looming EMR deadline

With federal stimulus money–about $546 million funneled into state grants promoting health information exchange projects–illuminating the way, healthcare software vendors are evaluating their offerings to see how EMRs and health information exchanges can work together to create a true marketplace and business advantage. Connecting EMRs through HIEs, which should help facilitate access to and retrieval of timely clinical data on patients, can cut back dramatically on expenses. A single-clinician practice, for example, could waste thousands of dollars a year dealing with referrals, consults, radiology and other orders alone. Integrating exchanges to be more than storage devices for clinical information could be a great step toward productivity and profit improvement across healthcare. In this market, business advantage may mean acquisition. Lawson Software, for example, recently announced a $160 million deal to acquire Healthvision, a Dallas-based company providing integration and application technology and related services to hospitals and large healthcare organizations. MEDecision, a vendor of payer-centric care management technology, also plans to expand its HIE strategy this spring by unveiling new products related to its acquisition last year of HxTechnologies, a provider of HIE services. The HIE market is heating up, according to Scott Storrer, MEDecision CEO. “We’re adding over a 100 employees to support that growth,” he says in an interview with Information Week. To learn more: - read this InformationWeek article

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Good old FTP just doesn’t cut it anymore

Posted by admin | Posted in How New Tech Products, Trends, and Tools | Posted on 10-03-2010

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We enjoyed reading the recent CIO article regarding taming the transfer of monster files.  Perhaps it was the mind boggling opening line that tipped us off that we were in for a good read “Despite being outdated and insecure, FTP continues to be a popular method for file transfer…” ?

This article is a must read for any IT department who is still relying on FTP for business file transfer.  The reasons for ditching FTP in favor of a managed file transfer solution are all in this article:  failure transmissions, compliance concerns, collaboration benefits.

Using FTP for file transfer is analagous to hitching a wagon to go across country versus flying.  Cross country wagon rides used to be popular but today they are considered a lot more difficult, less secure and time-consuming than an airline ride.

Is FTP finally going the way of the cross country wagon ride?

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