Author: trident50
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5 recommendations for telehealth success
Recognizing that licensing and regulation has not kept pace with the growth of telemedicine applications, a new report offers five recommendations for the successful adoption of telehealth. read more …read more
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eICU study fails to find clear benefits
Implementing telemedicine monitoring in eight ICUs brought no significant decline in mortality rates or length of stay, according to a study published at JAMA Internal Medicine. read more …read more
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What’s the Source of Provider Discontent?
In the comments of my post, “Do Doctors Care About the Triple Aim?”, Dr. Randall Oates, Founder of SOAPware offers his perspective on the provider discontent we see growing: What you say is true and largely explains the growing discontent of physicians. Multiple surveys reveal that at least 40% of physicians are not just unhappy,…
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Accreditor for ONC Health IT Certification Program Approved for Second Term
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has been approved by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) for a second three-year term as the ONC-Approved Accreditor (ONC-AA) for the ONC Health Information Technology Certification Program. The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has been approved by the Office of the National Coordinator…
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Why I Am Excited to Be Attending ATA 2014
0 I am excited to be attending the American Telemedicine Association annual meeting in Baltimore May 17-20 because when I looked beyond the inspirational keynote addresses to the concurrent session descriptions, I sensed that there has been a real change in how seriously the largest health systems in the country are taking telehealth initiatives. As…
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HIE Supports Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Services
As we approach 2014 National Hurricane Preparedness Week (May 25-31), it seems like an appropriate time to pause and reflect on two hurricanes that have impacted the lives of many Americans, Sandy and Katrina, and the role of health information technology (health IT). ONC has long supported the use of health IT and health information…
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It’s time for Meaningful Use to spring into change
Has anyone else noticed the growing disconnect between EHRs and Meaningful Use? Now that the program is fully entrenched and it’s been out for more than a test spin, it’s pretty clear that… read more …read more
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Are behavioral hospitals under an ‘unfunded mandate’ to adopt EHRs?
Behavioral hospitals have received short shrift when it comes to electronic health records and Meaningful Use, according to Edmund Billings, chief medical officer of Medsphere Systems Corporation. read more …read more
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Why analytics pros should be part of your enterprise data warehouse project
Simply building an enterprise data warehouse for a healthcare organization won’t make it successful–and making it an IT project is a mistake, writes Yiscah Bracha, assistant vice president of quality improvement healthcare analytics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. read more …read more
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How Kaiser does privacy and security
Event Call out Unpublish: Mon, 06/16/2014 (All day) Event Teaser: This Privacy & Security Forum delivers what CIOs, CISOs and other healthcare IT leaders told us they want from an industry conference: peer-to-peer learning, case studies and forums to brainstorm and share ideas. Kaiser Permanente’s Jim Doggett knows a little something about privacy and security…