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Bernie Monegain

Bernie is the Editor of Healthcare IT News. Follow Bernie on Twitter @Bernie_HITN.

By Bernie Monegain | 04:25 pm | July 28, 2016
The National Institute of Mental Health has awarded $3 million to researchers at Montefiore Medical Group, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Columbia University Medical Center in an effort to curb HIV rates in the Bronx, a borough in New York with one of the highest HIV rates in the country.
By Bernie Monegain | 04:50 pm | July 22, 2016
More than 90 percent of hospitals across the country make patients' medical record available online, according to a new report from the American Hospital Association.
By Bernie Monegain | 10:32 am | July 20, 2016
Cerner President Zane Burke announced on Tuesday that the company has hired Jeff Hurst to be its President of Cerner RevWorks and Senior Vice President of Cerner Revenue Cycle Management.
By Bernie Monegain | 12:11 pm | July 07, 2016
CMS is now calling for clinicians, hospitals, and critical access hospitals to use a 90-day EHR reporting period in 2016 - down from a full calendar year for returning participants in the government's EHR Incentive Program. They also proposed lowering the bar for achieving Stage 3 objectives, eliminating the Clinical Decision Support and Computerized Provider Order Entry objectives and measures for eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals.
By Bernie Monegain | 11:24 am | July 01, 2016
A third-party vendor is responsible for the security breach of the protected health information of 4,300 patients at Massachusetts General Hospital.
By Bernie Monegain | 12:37 pm | June 30, 2016
The first product suite, Pain RelieVR, offers immersive VR games that divert the patient's focus away from the procedure or recovery process.
By Bernie Monegain | 04:43 pm | June 22, 2016
IBM Watson Health has formed a medical imaging collaborative with more than 15 leading healthcare organizations. The goal: To take on some of the most deadly diseases.
By Bernie Monegain | 03:49 pm | June 20, 2016
The average global cost of data breach per every lost or stolen record is $158. Healthcare organizations, however, had an average cost of $355 per record, according to the new survey conducted by Ponemon.
By Bernie Monegain | 03:11 pm | June 17, 2016
As healthcare increasingly adopts tools supporting value-based care delivery, the potential multi-billion dollar market for population health management is getting a big boost, according to new analysis from research firm Frost & Sullivan.
By Bernie Monegain | 03:58 pm | June 07, 2016
Allscripts, Marshfield Clinic Information Services and athenahealth are the highest-ranking EHRs among large physician practices, according to new findings from Black Book Market Research.