Category: eHealth

With the ICD-10 delay, CMS has squandered the opportunity to learn from the mistakes made with the 2012 switch in transaction standards, according to Holly Louie, chair of the Healthcare Billing and Management Association’s ICD-10 Committee. read more …read more    

Researchers from The Miriam Hospital, a 247-bed facility in Providence, R.I., found that adding evidence-based weight loss strategies to a statewide wellness campaign improves weight loss outcomes among participants. Researchers from The Miriam Hospital, a 247-bed facility in Providence, R.I., found that adding evidence-based weight loss strategies to a statewide wellness campaign improves weight loss…

With all of its starting and stopping, the transition to ICD-10 is starting to resemble the children’s game “Red Light, Green Light,” Brett LeFevre, an associate at Salt Lake City-based healthcare consulting firm Leavitt Partners writes in a recent post to the Health Affairs blog. read more …read more    

Researchers from the University of Florida are touting the success of a data-driven simulation model that helps reduce crowding in the emergency room. read more …read more    

Health policy researchers still turn to traditional media over social media when sharing their findings, despite sites such as Twitter and Facebook boasting hundreds of millions of users. read more …read more    

The FDA has released guidance to manufacturers for submissions to its Global Unique Device Identification Database (GUDID). read more …read more    

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    

Healthcare occurs on a continuum, from the moment a patient picks up a phone to make an appointment or goes to the emergency room to the time they are sent home with a diagnosis, prescriptions and treatment plan. It’s a lot of coordination that requires a lot of communication. To aid in that effort, innovative…