Category: Patient Engagement
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CMS Produces an Interactive Stage 2 Resource for Meaningful Use and Clinical Quality Measures
The CMS has released a useful interactive document that can help medical professionals and hospitals better prepare for state 2 Meaningful Use of the EHR Incentive Program. The document, called the The Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs: STAGE 2 TOOLKIT is available here . The document is hyperlink rich and amazingly…
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House lawmakers to examine regulation of medical apps
House lawmakers said Tuesday that they will conduct a three-day series of hearings next week to look at how the Food and Drug Administration should regulate medical applications on smartphones and tablets. Lawmakers from the House Energy and Commerce committee will look specifically at how regulation affects patients, physicians and developers looking to capitalize on…
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10 Technologies Hospital Leaders Should be Watching
The ECRI Institute has released its third annual 10 C-Suite Watch List. The list was compiled by polling various technical colleagues at ECRI, along with other associates of the company who track hospital and health care operations to figure out which issues were of the most importance to them.While some entries to the top ten…
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The March HIT Standards Committee Meeting
The March HIT Standards Committee focused on streamlining test scripts for certification, an overview of FDA Universal Device Identifier rule making, clinical summary formats for Long Term Care, and the latest updates from ONC.
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Intermountain Shares Tech Goodies, Big Data Plans
In the scramble that is today’s healthcare industry, expect to see the unusual. At the HIMSS conference in New Orleans this month, Exhibit A was tech goodies on display at Intermountain Healthcare’s booth and its announcement of a strategic alliance with Deloitte.At the HIMSS booth, Intermountain chief technology officer Fred Holston was demonstrating new technologies…
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OB/GYNs told robot hysterectomy not best option
WASHINGTON — Pricey robotic surgery shouldn’t be the first or even second choice for most women who need a hysterectomy, says advice issued Thursday to doctors who help those women decide. The preferred method: Operate through the vagina, using standard tools rather than a robot, said Dr. James Breeden, president of the American College of…
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EHR and HIT News for March 26th
Today’s EHR and HIT News includes customer acquisition news from Elsevier and Emergency Department Information System provider CMR . The day also brings personel news with the announcement of a new Director of Education and Clinical Transformation from ProsSribe . Medical University Of South Carolina Selects Elsevier’s Interdisciplinary Care Planning And Clinical Documentation Solution Elsevier…
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Doc EHR market remains competitive
Epic Systems Corp. has more physicians and other eligible professionals who have attested as meaningful users of complete electronic health records systems in the ambulatory-care setting than any other vendor in a still-crowded and intensely…
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Hospitals Rethink the Service Line
This article appears in the March issue of HealthLeaders magazine.See Also: The Cardio Service Line, RebootedAmid economic turbulence and regulatory changes, service lines are becoming more integrated into hospital strategic plans, where these areas of specialization can thrive—although many healthcare leaders are checking the vitals of their service lines to see what treatment may be…
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Exclusive Interview: ONC’s Judy Murphy Talks about Meaningful Use Stages 2 and 3—and the Power of the Patient
In her first post-HIMSS interview, the ONC’s Deputy National Coordinator for Programs & Policy shares her perspectives on this year’s HIMSS Conference, on Stages 2 and 3 of meaningful use, and on her current passion—patient engagement, with HCI’s Editor-in-Chief Mark Hagland Senior officials from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and from the…