Category: Patient Engagement
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CMS launches prepayment audits of Meaningful Use attesters
In what appears to be a shift in policy, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has begun auditing providers attesting to Meaningful Use of their electronic health record systems before doling out incentive payments, according to a report from the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). read more
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NetPulse, HIEs, and The Importance of Reliable EMRs — Around Healthcare Scene
Have you ever wished that all your fitness and food trackers were in one place? Well, look no further. NetPulse is trying to do just that. The new platform is working with some of the hottest apps, as well as fitness equipment makers, to make taking control of your health easier and more convenient. A…
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Report: Three-in-Five Physicians Satisfied with their EHR
According to a new report from Deloitte Center for Health Services (DCHS), which surveyed 613 physicians on the state of healthcare reform and the medical profession in general, three-in-five physicians are satisfied with their electronic health records (EHRs). Overall though, physicians in the surveyed are concerned about the future of healthcare, with nearly 60 percent…
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Meaningful Use Stage 3 Priorities
In my reading, I came across this message of what the priorities for meaningful use stage 3 should be: To be considered for Stage 3, objectives must support new models of care, address national health priorities, promote advancement, be achievable and widely adopted by 2016, and be reasonable from a products and organizational perspective. I…
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Increase in wireless systems, cost benefits drive remote monitoring market
The market for advanced remote patient monitoring has been growing steadily as healthcare systems increasingly move to all-wireless systems, integrate data processing and transfer EMRs. read more
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Why provider workflow must be a priority during IT implementation
For providers asked to use new technologies like electronic health records and analytics tools, workflow impact, no doubt, is a top of mind issue. In a recent interview with the Institute for Heath Technology Transformation, Stephen Beck, chief medical informatics officer at Cincinnati-based Catholic Health Partners, said that's exactly how he approaches his organization's IT implementation processes
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New EHR Selector Website
As long as I’ve been blogging, I’ve been quite interested in the various EHR selection tools that are available out there. For a while, it seems like there was a new EHR selection tool coming out every week. The frenzy of EHR selection tools has mostly stopped and only a few major ones remain. One…
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Remote Patient Monitor Sales on the Rise
According to a research report from the New York City-based Kalorama Information, sales of advanced remote patient monitoring devices have risen 20 percent from the year before. The market for the devices, which process patient data and link them to an electronic medical record (EMR), has constantly ticked up, going from $4 billion in 2007…
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Readers, Industry Leaders Vote on MU Stage 3 Release Delay Question
Our Healthcare Informatics reader poll finds that two-thirds of respondents support the delay in the release of the Stage 3 meaningful use preliminary rule. Meanwhile, healthcare IT leaders have complex, nuanced views of that development and around Stage 3 more generally. When on Wednesday, March 20, during the HIMSS13 Conference being held in New Orleans,…