Author: trident50
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Live From ATA: Large Health Systems Increase Focus on Virtual Visits
0 Ray Dorsey, M.D., a professor of neurology and co-director of the Center for Human Experimental Therapeutics at the University of Rochester Medical Center, said the healthcare field is moving to virtual visits because the status quo doesn’t work. “The way we provide care doesn’t work. It is not timely, equitable or efficient.” As I…
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Recognizing the Value of Clinical Documentation Improvement
In patient care organizations, accurate clinical documentation has always been important, but in today’s shifting healthcare landscape, it has become even more of a strategic imperative than perhaps ever before. A consultant from Beacon Partners explains why. In patient care organizations, proper and accurate clinical documentation has always been important, but in today’s shifting healthcare…
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Big data helps treat cancer patients
The University of Leeds will use big data to help match patients with certain types of blood cancers to the best treatments. read more …read more
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DOD’s Jonathan Woodson: Telehealth a strategic goal for the military
As care standards continue to evolve, it’s imperative that the Military Health System embrace telehealth, according to Jonathan Woodson, assistant secretary of defense for health affairs at the U.S. Department of Defense, the keynote speaker Tuesday at the American Telemedicine Association’s annual meeting in Baltimore. read more …read more
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HIPAA Security and Audits with Mac McMillan
In case you missed the recent HIPAA Privacy and Security hangout I did with Mac McMillan, CEO of Cynergistek, you’re missing out. I think this HIPAA interview is an extension of what we started in our post “6 Reality Checks of HIPAA Compliance.” There’s a real awakening that’s needed when it comes to HIPAA. I…
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Behind Intermountain’s Build-or-Buy Decision on Telehealth Platform
As Utah-based Intermountain Healthcare moves toward its concept of shared accountability by redesigning care across all its clinical areas, its executives became increasingly convinced over the last few years that “teleservices” would be a key part of their process redesign. One key question was whether to buy a telehealth system from a vendor or build…
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Health IT Leaders Detail Stage 2 MU Headaches
On Tuesday, May 20, the Health IT Policy Committee is holding the first of two listening sessions featuring testimony from physician practice and hospital IT leaders about their Stage 2 meaningful use concerns. In their written testimony, the health IT leaders highlighted the challenges around transitions of care and the patient engagement. On Tuesday, May…
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2013 Healthcare I.T. M&A: Do Many Notes Make a Song?
As we do each year when we sit down to write this article, we begin by first taking a look back at last year’s M&A Review. We concluded with a prediction and a promise. First, we anticipated some re-emergence of larger deals, then we promised to discuss athenahealth’s (#22) $293 million acquisition of mobile physician…
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How emerging technologies will build on IT successes to improve care
The widespread adoption of health IT offers the potential to move beyond the basics and harness emerging technologies to improve individual care and population health, according to a new issue brief from The Center for Health Affairs. read more …read more
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AHIMA: Healthcare industry must improve information governance
Most healthcare organizations have not yet established a comprehensive strategy to govern their data, leaving it and them vulnerable, said a panel of health information management experts, speaking on data governance at CMS’ eHealth Summit this week. read more …read more