Tag: patient-safety
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Digital Document Delivery And Management: Achieving Compliance, Security And Improved Patient Care
The HITECH Act’s financial incentive programs have become one of the major drivers for the increased adoption of health IT among healthcare providers. Nearly 2,000 hospitals and more than 41,000 physicians have received a total of $3.1 billion in incentive payments for the “meaningful use” of health IT.1 As healthcare providers participate in multiple internally…
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The Promise of Structured Data Capture
Although there is strong interest in leveraging clinical data to supplement data collected for other purposes, including research, patient safety, and public health reporting, the use of EHR data for supplemental purposes has been limited due to a lack of uniformity in the terminology and definitions of data elements across EHRs.
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Communication With Providers, Patient Alert Fatigue, and #HealthIT — #HITsm Chat Highlights
#HITsm T1: How do you WANT to communicate with your healthcare provider? How does it differ from what’s available? T1: When communicating with my provider, I want to get just the information I need without superfluous materials, in a timely fashion #HITsm — SHIFT Healthcare (@healthycomms) April 5, 2013 T1: I mostly just don’t want…
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HHS shouldn’t allow cuts to alter health IT safety efforts
With all of the attention the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's annual conference in New Orleans this week is receiving, did you also know that this week is Patient Safety Awareness Week? Somehow that's not getting the same fanfare in my emails or on my Twitter feed. While the two events are not connected, though, each has…