Author: trident500
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Patient Alert Fatigue
On this blog we’ve often covered the concept of physician alert fatigue . It’s a major challenge for EMR software providers to balance the alerts a doctor gets so they don’t just ignore the alerts all together. What makes this even more challenging is that every doctor reaches alert fatigue at a different point. One…
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G8 foreign ministers call for urgent action to address rape, sexual violence in conflict
“An initiative announced [Thursday] in London by the Group of Eight (G8) industrialized countries to ramp up the fight against rape and other sexual violence in conflict represents ‘a beacon of light and hope’ for the countless survivors around the wor…
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Viewpoints: Progress toward a ‘grand bargain’; States’ ‘rare chance’ to expand Medicaid
Obama has acknowledged that the federal budget is on an unsustainable path. … The president has set the right contours for a deal, and some of the specific proposals -; including higher Medicare premiums for high-income seniors and those with generous Medigap policies, as well as a more aggressive effort to move providers to more…
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1st HIMSS Stage 7 Ambulatory EMR, EMR vs EHR, Tech and Improved Patient Care
HIMSS Analytics Announces 1st System To Reach Stage 7 Ambulatory #EMR Adoption Model bit.ly/17qHmF2 #hitsm — Perficient Health IT (@Perficient_HC) April 10, 2013 And every ambulatory doctor said, “Who cares?” Then they heard the answer, “Your new boss, the hospital CIO.” My new blog post: “EHR” Has Finally Caught Up With “EMR” In Google Trends…
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Medicaid expansion: Stiff resistance in South, Fla. Gov. Scott blasts watered-down plan
While most Southern states resist expanding Medicaid under the health law, Virginia appoints its final voting members to a commission that will oversee expansion there.
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Deadline to comment on CMS proposals to ‘accelerate’ HIE fast approaching
Comments from associations, practitioners and others have been adding up in response to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Request for Information issued last month to accelerate and improve health information exchange and interoperability among providers. read more
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ONC to impose user fee on EHR vendors
One of the more unique provisions of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT's proposed 2014 budget is the imposition of a new “user fee” on electronic health record vendors and developers to support ONC's certification and standardization activities. read more
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‘Practical Data’, ‘Actionable Data’ and ‘Useful Data’ vs. ‘Big Data’…
Protect yourself from Shadow IT, Embrace “good enough for HIPAA” secure cloud services like Box and Skydrive. It’s a common misconception that if executives at hospitals or practices don’t have time to deliver sophisticated IT solutions to their users that users will just wait… Shahid N. Shah, www.healthcareitguy.com April 17th, 2013
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N.J. doctor sentenced for attempted murder, fraud
A northern New Jersey doctor was sentenced Friday to nine years in state prison after he admitted to hiring a hit man to kill his lover and a former business partner, authorities said.
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Readers Write: Buy or Build: SaaS Can Make Sense for Meaningful Use Reporting
Buy or Build: SaaS Can Make Sense for Meaningful Use Reporting By John Hotchkiss The trials and tribulations of Meaningful Use (MU) have given new meaning to the lives of many of us in IT, and often not in a good way. An average 250-bed community hospital submitting its 90-day attestation report must process roughly…