Author: trident50
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Democrats tout Medicaid expansion in campaigns
But House Republicans are divided over their promise to vote on a health law alternative this year as millions of Americans are now enrolled in expanded Medicaid and subsidized private coverage. …read more
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Cleveland clinic chief considered for VA post
Delos “Toby” Cosgrove, the top executive of one of the nation’s most prestigious hospital systems and also a decorated Vietnam veteran, is being considered by the White House, reports The Wall Street Journal. …read more
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ASTRO issues new Model Policy for proton beam therapy
The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has issued a new Model Policy for proton beam therapy (PBT) that details which cancer diagnoses meet ASTRO’s evidence-based standards and should be covered by private insurers and Medicare. …read more
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Lab Interfaces and EHR
The following is a great response on LinkedIn by Robert D. Coli, M.D. to my post about Lab Interfaces Being an EHR Standard. I’d love to hear your thoughts about what he says in the comments. There are now a total 880,000 professionally active U.S. physicians, working in 200,000 mostly small private practices (100K with…
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ONC risk assessement tool has benefits, shortfalls, attorney says
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s new security risk assessment tool to help providers conduct risk analyses of their electronic patient information has both benefits and shortfalls, according to attorney Richelle Beckman of Overland Park, Kansas-based Forbes Law Group. read more …read more
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Quality of care better in medical homes using EHRs
Patient centered medical homes that use electronic health records improved the care of patients “significantly” over time compared to primary care physicians who used paper records or who used EHRs but weren’t affiliated with a medical home, according to a new study in the Annals of Internal Medicine. read more …read more
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Are Seniors Being Left Behind the Wave of Health IT?
0 There are certainly major strides being made when it comes to developing consumer health applications to engage patients in taking an active role in their own care. The latest, as noted by Healthcare Informatics Senior Editor Gabe Perna yesterday, comes from Apple, which, during its iOS8 presentation, announced its Health app and HealthKit system…
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Kathleen Sebelius: Data liberation works
Federal data liberation efforts, including those at the Department of Health and Human Services, represent reforms that are bigger than one administration, according to outgoing HHS secretary Kathleen Sebelius. read more …read more
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Clinicians: Copy-and-paste in EMR is not by definition fraudulent
The copy-and-paste and other functions in EHRs can make it easier to commit fraud when used inappropriately, but they’re not fraudulent by default, according to a viewpoint article in JAMA Internal Medicine. read more …read more
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U.S. researchers, U.K. partner on open data healthcare framework
The creation of a blueprint for the use of open data in healthcare was the driving force behind a recent collaboration between researchers at New York University’s GovLab and England’s National Health Service. read more …read more