Category: eHealth
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How Adoption of Direct in Tennessee Reached a Tipping Point
In six months time, leaders at the Memphis-based Qsource, a nonprofit consultancy, created widespread adoption of Direct technology within the state of Tennessee. In this exclusive, project leaders explain how it happened and the barriers they had to overcome. June to December, exactly six months, seems like an impossibly short time to accomplish a substantial…
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Innovator Semifinalist Team: Neonatal Telemedicine Program Takes Off at Children’s Medical Center Dallas
As part of its telemedicine initiative, the 595-bed Texas-based Children’s Medical Center Dallas deployed the TeleNICU in 2013 in order to meet the demand for access to pediatric subspecialists, which is a problem in the state. Leaders at the medical center see this program as representing the future of healthcare. Children’s Medical Center Dallas was…
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A prescription for docs on social media
By Nancy Cawley Jean Back in 2011, I wrote a Hospital Impact post about why doctors should be careful when using social media. I’m not changing my stance on the issue, but I recognize that social… read more …read more
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4 ways research can keep up with eHealth
Research often struggles to keep up with eHealth and isn’t timely or useful by the time it comes out. To that end, a new study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research offers strategies that speed up such research and make it more useful. read more …read more
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16 HIOs to collaborate on more robust exchange
Sixteen health information organizations (HIOs) in Great Plains and Rocky Mountain states are teaming up to address the toughest issues limiting data sharing from a highly mobile populace. Their goal… read more …read more
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Deloitte taps the Zen of data analytics
Envisioning a future when healthcare is data-driven in a big way, Deloitte Consulting has launched a new business unit and is investing between $150 million to $200 million in life sciences and healthcare analytics and launching ConvergeHEALTH, a new business unit to give the work of transformation momentum. read more …read more
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The increasing importance of population health management
With National Coordinator for Health IT Karen DeSalvo declaring population health management as one of ONC’s primary focuses for 2014, it no doubt also will be a topic to watch at HIMSS14 in… read more …read more
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Researchers look to connect patient records between hospitals, med flight crews
Is it possible to link patient records between hospitals and medical flight crews? Doing so could save lives, according to researchers from Case Western Reserve University’s nursing school. read more …read more
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Is virtual currency the future of how docs get paid?
A number of medical professionals in the United States now take payment by Bitcoin. Yes, that Bitcoin–the controversial peer-to-peer open source digital currency network tech blogs constantly cover, with crashing and surging value. read more …read more
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Why CIOs are skipping HIMSS this year
For many health IT executives, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s annual conference provides an opportunity to connect with industry colleagues and potential vendor… read more …read more