Morning Headlines 4/15/16
Missing clinical and behavioral health data in a large electronic health record (EHR) system
A JAMIA study comparing clinical data from an EHR with data from insurance claims finds that EHR data is incomplete, missing information on care delivered outside of the organization.
athenahealth Announces Acquisition of Arsenal Health, formerly known as Smart Scheduling, Inc
Athenahealth acquires former More Disruption Please startup Arsenal Health, a company building schedule optimization solutions.
Economic Outlook: Spring 2016 C-Suite Survey
A small survey of health executives finds that only 38 percent of organizations are successfully accessing ambulatory data from non-employed physicians, while 84 percent of respondents report that health IT will continue to be the area where most significant capital investments are made.
The primary point of using the Cloud is using operating expenses vs limited capital ones and avoiding having to update…