Author: trident50
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Interoperable Health IT and Business Process Management: The Spider In The Web
This is my second of five guest blog posts covering Health IT and EHR Workflow. If you pay any attention at all to interoperability discussion in healthcare and health IT, I’m sure you’ve heard of syntactic vs. semantic interoperability. Syntax and semantics are ideas from linguistics. Syntax is the structure of a message. Semantics is…
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Smartphone coaching can boost diabetic management, help reduce disease risks
Diabetics living in low to modest socioeconomic communities can benefit from patient coaching via smartphone when it comes to managing their disease and improving their health, according to a new… read more …read more
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Apple HealthKit draws concerns about data security, privacy and medical accuracy
Apple’s HealthKit debut last week ignited a flurry of feedback and concerns from healthcare experts and industry watchers regarding privacy, the sharing of confidential data and use of medical terms. read more …read more
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Aetna partners with Fresenius Medical Care to improve lives of people with end stage renal disease
Fresenius Medical Care announced today a collaborative care model designed to improve the quality of care for Aetna’s Medicare Advantage members who have end stage renal disease, while lowering health care costs. …read more
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News 6/11/14
Top News Our intrepid beltway reporter Dim-Sum has been telling us for months that IBM and Epic are pitching for the DoD’s $11 billion EMR contract, which IBM now confirms in announcing its intentions. Heading the project will be IBM CMIO Keith Salzman, MD, MPH, who was an Army doc for 22 years. Dim-Sum’s reports…
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State highlights: Improving chronic care in Las Vegas; standoff over Medicaid in N.C.
Now, Las Vegas is emerging as a test of how much a community can improve chronically poor health by expanding insurance coverage and using models of medical care pioneered in healthier places. “We are a prime example of what people see as problematic about the American healthcare system,” said Larry Matheis, the former longtime head…
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Enrollees’ personal information may be compromised as a result of access health CT data breach
The Connecticut health insurance exchange data breach has been traced back to an employee of the company that runs the call center. …read more
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Text4baby benefits pregnant women
The leading mobile health service in the nation, Text4baby, was found to significantly benefit pregnant women, according to a new study led by Milken Institute School of Public Health (Milken Institute SPH) at the George Washington University and the Madigan Army Medical Center. …read more
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Nearly 2 million consumers find themselves in health care limbo as they wait for their Medicaid applications to be processed
Kaiser Health News reports that most of these are people who sought coverage through the health law’s Medicaid expansion. Meanwhile, the New York Times takes a look at how a state line can make all the difference in who gets Medicaid. …read more
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Pennsylvania Hospital Notifies 1,801 Patients of HIPAA Breach
Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center is notifying 1,801 patients that their protected health information (PHI) had the potential to be accessed by individuals not involved in their care due to the actions of an employee who had accessed the data without having proper IT security protections in place. Penn State Milton S. Hershey…