Category: eHealth
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A better approach to clinical decision support?
Differential diagnostic decision support tools generally are built to identify a single correct diagnosis, while focusing instead on the value of information they provide might better achieve the goals of shared-decision making to improve care and cut costs, according to a BMC Medical Informatics & Decision Making article. read more Source: A better approach to…
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Health IT systems hinder care integration
Health IT is hindering, rather than enabling, integration of care across multiple settings and efforts to improve healthcare value, two healthcare specialists argue in a Harvard Business Review blog post. read more Source: Health IT systems hinder care integration
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CHIME CEO: How HIT has profoundly affected my family’s life
In a post to the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives’ CHIME StateNet blog, Russell Branzell, president and CEO of CHIME, takes the opportunity to explain why HIT is personally important to him read more Source: CHIME CEO: How HIT has profoundly affected my family’s life
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5 ways to link health information technology, quality measurement
A new report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality summarizes the comments it received on its July 2012 request for information and from focus groups on how to enhance quality measurement through health information technology. read more Source: 5 ways to link health information technology, quality measurement
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GUEST BLOG: Can Entrepreneurs “Cure” Healthcare With Technology?
This week is the 8th annual Healthcare IT Week. Healthcare IT Week was started and continues on as a collaborative forum for public and private healthcare constituents to discuss the value of health information technology for the U.S. healthcare system. This week is the 8th annual Healthcare IT Week. Healthcare IT Week was started and…
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Docs optimistic HIT can improve care, but doubt promised cost savings
Most physicians think health IT will improve quality of care long-term, but just as many are skeptical that it will also reduce the cost of care, according to a new study by the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions. read more Source: Docs optimistic HIT can improve care, but doubt promised cost savings
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Children’s Medical Center Dallas launches ‘teleNICU’
Soon, Texas newborns in far-flung intensive care units will be able to be examined virtually by expert neonatologists via telemedicine. read more Source: Children’s Medical Center Dallas launches ‘teleNICU’
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HHS seeks what’s beyond the Blue Button at the Consumer HIT Summit
When the Department of Veterans Affairs launched Blue Button–which allows patients to get their health information online–in 2010, they didn’t know they’d be starting a movement for the rest of the national health IT community to rally around. But that was precisely the theme of this year’s kickoff to National Health IT week yesterday at…
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HHS launches site to help providers engage patients
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services this morning launched a new website aimed at aiding providers in their efforts to engage patients in determining the best way to share their electronic information. read more Source: HHS launches site to help providers engage patients
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Lawmakers, hospitals press OMB on unique identifier rule
What’s taking so long? That’s what four members of the U.S. House asked in a recent letter to the Office of Management and Budget about releasing the Unique Device Identifier (UDI) final rule. read more Source: Lawmakers, hospitals press OMB on unique identifier rule