Category: HIE

Former ONC chief opposes CMS rule weakening patient access to records Former ONC lead Farzad Mostashari, MD spoke out against CMS’s recent decision to strip MU2 of its five percent view/transmit/download requirement, saying “If this proposed rule stands, it would roll back a lot of progress that’s been made incorporating patient engagement into workflows. To…

CHIME Chairman of the Board Chuck Christian sees opportunities and challenges facing CIOs at a moment of unprecedented change in healthcare Charles E. “Chuck” Christian, vice president and CIO at St. Francis Hospital in Columbus, Georgia, and since January, the current chair of the board of the Ann Arbor, Mich.-based College of Healthcare Information Management…

Seal Shield LLC (Jacksonville, FL), today announced the new Airocide DS air purifier. The Airocide DS is a table top or bed side air purification product that uses a unique photocatalytic biocide reactor to eliminate viral, fungal and bacterial pathogens from the air. Developed by NASA, Airocide converts dangerous bacteria, virus and destructive VOC’s into…

New research published in the Annals of Internal Medicine finds that commercial weight-loss programs can offer significant weight loss after one year of participation when compared to a control group. Researchers led by Kimberly A. Gudzune, M D, MPH, found that participants achieved up to 4.9% mean total weight loss following one year of participation,…

Jersey Shore has earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval for its Hip and Knee Joint Replacement Program by demonstrating compliance with The Joint Commission’s national standards for health care quality and safety in disease-specific care. The certification award recognizes the hospital’s dedication to continuous compliance with The Joint Commission’s rigorous standards. …read more…

By Deborah Leyva Link: Michigan’s Fee-for-Value Physician Incentive Program Reduces Spending and Improves Quality in Primary Care – The Commonwealth Fund. With the recent announcement from HHS regarding “Better, Smarter, Healthier”  and its goals and timeline for shifting Medicare reimbursements from volume to value, Michigan’s Fee-for-Value initiative is reported to have reduced spending and improved quality of…

The following is a guest blog post by Marc Willard, President of Transcend Insights. The health care industry’s transition from fee-for-service to value-based reimbursement models demands a dramatic shift in how medical information is used and shared. The ability to generate a single, comprehensive patient view from an individual’s acute care, ambulatory care and wellness…

0 Speaking at the Population Health Colloquium, Continuum Health Alliance offered up insights into how healthcare organizations should think about transforming their care models to move to value-based payment, and particularly how they should think about the use of technology. The 15th Annual Population Health Colloquium, put on by the Thomas Jefferson University School of…

Deborah Gage is president and CEO of Medecision. Tell me about yourself and the company. I joined Medecision five years ago because of my belief that the convergence of big data and workflow applications were at the core of engaging consumers, hospitals, and physicians and achieving the Triple Aim. What I loved about Medecision is…

Dr. Deborah Peel from Patient Privacy Rights always keeps me updated on some of the latest news coverage around privacy and government surveillance. Obviously, it’s a big challenge in healthcare and she’s the leading advocate for patient privacy. Today she sent me a link to this John Oliver interview with Snowden. The video is pretty…