Author: trident500
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Docs limit patient EMR access
Even as policmakers are pushing patient engagement , a new survey signals doctors may not be ready to relinquish control of their patients' medical record. read more
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Fighting Return Fraud
It's after Christmas and consumers are lined up at stores to return merchandise- the scratchy sweater from Aunt Helen, the toaster oven that doesn't fit on the counter. But not all returns are legitimate and return fraud costs Retailers billions of dollars every year- $8.9 billion dollars according to the 2012 Return Fraud survey conducted…
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In push to go paperless, don’t forget about paper entirely
While it's laudable for hospitals today to be “all electronic” and meeting the advanced stages of electronic adoption in HIMSS' EMR adoption model –the highest levels of EHR use… read more
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The doctor is in (well, logged in)
Surfing the Web in his all-white Dumbo loft, Dr. Jay Parkinson, 37, looks like any other young tech visionary. He has a trim beard and thick-framed glasses. He wears slim-fitting black outfits and jaunty scarves. He speaks with a measured, “This American Life”-like cadence. And he’s a firm believer in the utopian promise of the…
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The Cardio Service Line, Rebooted
This article appears in the March 2013 issue of HealthLeaders magazine.As healthcare leaders pay more attention to what their patients want and need, the tactics for caring for cardiology patients are changing. Those responsible for cardio service lines are placing more emphasis on patient behavior. Closely and loosely aligned partners, often practicing in the community…
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Morning Headlines 3/28/13
Caradigm Kills eHealth, Partners with Orion Caradigm, the Microsoft and GE Healthcare collaboration, has announced a partnership with Orion Health wherein Caradigm will go to market with Orion Health’s HIE solution rather than its own poorly performing eHealth HIE solution which is now being sunset.
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Clinical Device Assesment Service Brochure
As U.S. hospitals move through the phases of the EMR Adoption Model, the ability to capture and manage patient data from intelligent medical devices will quickly become a necessity in order to advance patient safety and better clinicaloutcomes.
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CancerLinQ project called part of ‘learning health system’
The American Society of Clinical Oncology is again trumpeting a software development project that it says will one day use routine clinical data collection and real-time data analytics to drive members of that medical specialty toward the Institute…
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EHR data still ‘too fragmented’ for secondary uses
While electronic health record data has the potential to be reused to identify which patients may be eligible to participate in clinical trials, the data capture is too incomplete and “fragmented” to be relied on for such a secondary use, according to new research published in BMC Medical Informatics & Decision Making . read more
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EHRs can ID phenotypes for genetic research
Electronic health records can be helpful tools for identifying phenotypes for genetic and other research, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Informatics Association .