Author: trident50
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Panel: Medicare’s ‘quality’ metrics penalize hospitals serving poor areas
Federal pay-for-performance programs should take into account patients’ income, race and other factors when deciding how to reward or penalize hospitals, the panel’s recommendations say. …read more
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Morning Headlines 4/30/14
M*Modal files reorganization plan, details Ch. 11 exit strategy M*Modal files its disclosure statement and reorganization plan, detailing the company’s strategy to exit Chapter 11 by August 15. UPMC Selling Analytics to Curb Health Care Costs UPMC will begin licensing its home-grown clinical analytics system to other healthcare organizations. The platform identifies the lowest cost…
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EHR Association Opposes 2015 Certification Criteria
HIMSS’ EHR Association (EHRA)—a trade association of electronic health record (EHR) vendors— has written a letter to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), urging the agency to reconsider its voluntary 2015 EHR certification criteria. HIMSS’ EHR Association (EHRA)—a trade association of electronic health record (EHR) vendors— has written a letter to…
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Information Technology Can Simplify Weight-Loss Efforts
Researchers at the University of Missouri, Columbia, have found that information technology such as smartphone applications can help dieters integrate healthy behavior changes into their daily lives. The study, “Successful Weight Loss: How Information Technology Is Used to Lose,” was recently published in the Journal of Telemedicine and e-Health. Researchers at the University of Missouri,…
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Royal Solutions 3.0 Achieves ONC HIT 2014 Edition Modular EHR Certification from ICSA Labs
Royal Solutions Group has announced that their Royal Solutions 3.0 has achieved ONC HIT 2014 Edition Modular EHR certification which designates that the software is capable of supporting eligible providers with meeting the Stage 1 and Stage 2 Meaningful Use measures required to qualify for funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Royal Solutions,…
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Advanced Data Capture Automates Data Collection; Collates and Structures Information inside an EHR
The following is a guest post A Guest Post By David Rasmussen The University of Wisconsin (UW) Hospital and Clinics, one of the world’s foremost organ transplant programs, receives hundreds of thousands of external lab reports every year. Since more than 80 percent of its patients’ tests are performed at outside locations with the results…
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Digital health investment tops $1.35B in first quarter of 2014
Investment in digital health topped $1.35 billion in the first quarter of 2014, according to new report from StartUp Health. read more …read more
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Avoidable ‘Collateral Damage’ from Data Breaches
A report released on April 29 by Javelin Strategy and Research has found that a high percentage of consumers avoid doing businesses that have experienced data breaches. The report focuses on three industries: healthcare, as well as the financial and retail sectors. A report released on April 29 by Javelin Strategy and Research has found…
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Healthcare security is not a back-burner issue
With stricter HIPAA audits on the horizon, the threat of the Federal Trade Commission also cracking down on breaches and the notorious Heartbleed bug looming, you would think the healthcare industry–and provider organizations, in particular–would take any measures necessary to ensure, or at least improve, privacy and security. That, however, does not appear to be…
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Docs give short shrift to vital signs, lab results in electronic notes
Physicians do not devote the same amount of attention to all of the information in an electronic note, virtually ignoring medication lists, vital signs or lab results, according to a new study in Applied Clinical Informatics. read more …read more