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Adoption Of Digital Records In The Health Care Industry
Utilization of electronic record keeping systems is becoming increasingly predominant within the healthcare industry due to a wide range of benefits, ultimately resulting in improved quality of care and patient safety, not to mention controlled costs and time savings for healthcare providers. …read more Source: Adoption Of Digital Records In The Health Care Industry
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Purple Button Technology – A Means to Overcome the Patient Safety Epidemic
Securely sharing patient safety information is critical to preventing adverse events. Purple Button technology helps hospitals do just that — from the patient bedside to the boardroom. …read more Source: Purple Button Technology – A Means to Overcome the Patient Safety Epidemic
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CMS seeks 1.4% payment hike for SNFs
The CMS has proposed a 1.4% hike in Medicare payments to skilled-nursing facilities for fiscal 2014, which the agency estimates would increase payments to these providers by about $500 million from 2013 payment levels.
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Mount Sinai Links Genetics with EMR
New York’s Mount Sinai Medical Center has announced that 25,000 people have signed on to participate in its biobank program, BioMe, where each patient has broadly consented to DNA sequencing, contact from researchers, and longitudinal studies related to data embedded in the electronic medical record (EMR).
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Nearly half of EPs have received EHR payments
More than a quarter million physicians and other professionals eligible for the federally funded electronic health-record incentive payment programs have received payments, according to the latest government data.
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Dear Washington Post: Patients privacy rights are no joke
I read with dismay last week’s article by well known Washington Post business columnist Michelle Singletary, who questioned whether several hospital employees should have been fired by a hospital in New Zealand for inappropriately accessing the hospital’s electronic health record to view the information of a patient with a “titillating” medical emergency, and then sharing the records…
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Utah health data breach: A lesson in the myriad benefits of prevention
Al Pascual, a senior analyst of security, risk and fraud at Javelin Strategy & Research, analyzed the March 2012 data breach that impacted roughly 780,000 for a new report due out later this month. He recently talked with FierceHealthIT about the incident. read more
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ONC official: Criticism of MU program interoperability ‘misguided’
Criticism of the current lack of focus on interoperability of electronic health record systmes in the Meaningful Use program is “misguided,” according to Judy Murphy, deputy national coordinator for programs and policy at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, who spoke last week at a symposium in Philadelphia. read more