Author: trident500
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Healthways’ Telephonic Care Support for Health Coaching
Both science and human nature played a part in the success of Healthways’ telephonic care support for diabetes patients, explains John Harris, senior vice president of the Health Support Division of Healthways. Even though the program is from Healthways’ care management side, he believes that the same results would apply to a coaching effort, since…
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How Implementing an Electronic Health Record Caused a Business Transformation for North Fulton Family Practice
Implementing an electronic health record (EHR) in 1998 has transformed the way the four-location North Fulton Family Practice in Georgia does business. Dr. Jim Morrow, North Fulton’s vice president and chief information officer, described how the EHR has enhanced physician-patient “face time”and care management and improved efficiency, productivity and profitability at the 20-provider practice. He…
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Successful Hospital Implementation at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Dr. Joel Diamond, medical director of Diamond, Fera and Associates, explained how concentrating on people rather than IT and engaging the medical leadership and the rest of the staff at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for successful hospital implementation of an electronic health record and how these lessons can be applied to a physician…
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Data Protection and the Promotion of Health Research
This paper challenges the argument that data protection legislation may harm research by unduly restricting the flow of personal health information. I unpack the assumption that privacy is an individual right that must give way to research as a social good, and explore how data protection laws facilitate the flow of information for research purposes.…
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Commentary: Data Protection and the Promotion of Health Research: If the Laws Are Not the Problem, Then What Is?
Data protection laws offer such broad exemptions for research that research ethics boards and data custodians lack sufficient guidance as to when it may be acceptable to release data to researchers without consent. The result: idiosyncratic institutional policies that create major challenges for researchers conducting multi-centred studies. The 2005 CIHR Best Practices for Protecting Privacy…
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Commentary: Data Protection and the Promotion of Health Research
The paper by Valerie Steeves provides a well-presented series of arguments concerning research access to personal health information. Her perspective is clear, and her voice often challenges some of the stereotypic attitudes and values she attributes to the perspective of research interests when confronted with privacy protection policies and practices.
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Keeping Seniors As Healthy As Possible in Their Homes and Communities
Diane Flanders, director of coordinated care systems for MassHealth, provided an overview of the unique partnership that is designed to keep its seniors as well as possible, and in their homes and communities for as long as possible. Sarah Keenan, clinical liaison with Medica and Flanders described how to create a coordinated care management approach…
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American Academy of Family Physicians Supports Physicians as CMS Expands its Physician Voluntary Reporting Program (PVRP)
Dr. Bruce Bagley, medical director of quality improvement with the American Academy of Family Physicians, described his organization’s willingness to support physicians as CMS expands its Physician Voluntary Reporting Program (PVRP), the role of electronic medical records in the CMS initiative, and predicted just how long this program will remain voluntary. Participating in PVRP can…
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Coventry Health Plans Prepares for the NPI May 2007 Deadline
Lynn Somers Syrek, director of operations support and NPI project manager at Coventry Health Plans, described how Coventry is preparing for the NPI deadline and the type of training the organization is providing to its employees. Matt Wallach, Health Market Science’s chief marketing officer, and Syrek described what steps organizations need to take to ensure…
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Wide-Reaching Implications of NPI Use
The NPI implementation deadline is less than 175 days away, but only 1.5 million NPIs have been issued to date. Listen to Matt Wallach, Health Market Science’s chief marketing officer, described the wide-reaching implications of NPI use, the ideal management team to direct the implementation effort, and the provider and payor education that must occur…