Category: ACO
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Adding symbol to calorie information influences food choices, says expert
A little-noticed provision of the Affordable Care Act requires all chain restaurants and retail food establishments with 20 or more locations to list calorie counts on their menus.
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IRS faces class action lawsuit over theft of 60 million medical records
The Internal Revenue Service is now facing a class action lawsuit over allegations that it improperly accessed and stole the health records of some 10 million Americans, including medical records of all California state judges. read more
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What David Nash Said–And Why Healthcare Executives Need to Listen
It was a wonderful opportunity for Healthcare Informatics that our Assistant Editor Rajiv Leventhal was able to sit down with David Nash, M.D. during a break in the 13th Population Health Colloquium, being held this week in Philadelphia. And what Dr.
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Showing the Doctors the Data
Ronnie Brownsworth, M.D. of the Piedmont Clinic and Piedmont Healthcare is leading his physician colleagues forward in an ongoing, unfolding initiative to leverage data and IT in ever-more-sophisticated ways to support clinical performance improvement and to gradually move towards accountable care On March 13, Ronnie Brownsworth, M.D., CEO of the Piedmont Clinic, and executive vice…
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House to hold hearings next week on mHealth regulations
Continuing to pressure the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on whether it intends to regulate smartphones, tablets and mHealth apps as medical devices under the Affordable Care Act, the House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a three-day series of hearings next week to examine how such regulations would impact patients, physicians and developers. read…
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Health IT worker shortage looms
A significant and growing shortage of health information technology workers appears greater than previously estimated, according to a new analysis by PwC’s Health Research Institute. The report, Solving the talent equation for health IT, finds that the healthcare industry is vying for a limited number of IT professionals – and many companies are scrambling to…
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Lawmakers express concerns to FDA about taxing mHealth apps
Republican members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee have asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration if it intends to regulate smartphones, tablets and mobile apps as medical devices under the Affordable Care Act, as reported by The Hill newspaper in a blog
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Celebrating my Father’s Life
As I sit at my father’s bedside, managing the increasing heaviness of his breathing, I’m doing my best to keep his lips moist, his extremities warm, and the dosing of his comfort care medications appropriate so there is no air hunger. People from my parents’ past are calling and emailing me, telling me their stories…
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Interoperability: The High Jump and The Long Jump with ONC’s Doug Fridsma
I’ll admit, I was incredibly nervous about interviewing Dr. Doug Fridsma, the Chief Science Officer for the Office of the National Coordinator and the face of both the Standards and Interoperability (S&I) Framework and the Federal Health Architecture initiative. Not only do I consider him a key luminary, but his overarching responsibility for the future…
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The Growth Of Health Information Exchange: The Jump From 1.0 To 2.0
As the healthcare community continues its transition away from fee-for-service toward outcome-driven accountable care approaches, so too has the way health information is shared (to support that transition) undergone an equally significant shift.