Tag: ehr
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Is Your EHR Clinically Valuable?
The following is a guest post by Kyna Fong, Founder of Elation EMR. In healthcare, there’s a generally accepted rule of thumb. Before providers are asked to change how they deliver patient care, they must first be convinced that the change adds clinical value, i.e., improves patient care. The adoption of EHR’s should fit squarely…
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Obama: VA disability claims backlog down 20%
The overwhelming backlog of disability claims by veterans has been reduced by 20 percent since March, President Obama said in a speech at the Disabled American Veterans Convention in Orlando over the weekend. read more Source: Obama: VA disability claims backlog down 20%
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Remote care nurses make difference in home self-monitoring for chronic illness
Home self-monitoring with the support of a remote care nurse is effective in empowering patients with chronic illness in their own healthcare, according to a new study published in Telemedicine and e-Health. read more Source: Remote care nurses make difference in home self-monitoring for chronic illness
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Hospitals: Big data use is a ‘significant challenge’
While most hospitals and healthcare organization representatives responding to a recent survey from the eHealth Initiative and the College of Health Information Management Executives see big data as important to their strategic plans, far fewer believe their facilities are implementing it appropriately. read more …read more Source: Hospitals: Big data use is a 'significant challenge'
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Is tech the answer to reducing readmissions?
Entrepreneurs are stepping in to offer technological solutions as penalties increase Oct. 1 for excess hospital readmissions, reports The Wall Street Journal. read more Source: Is tech the answer to reducing readmissions?
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Workgroup: Expect new standards in Meaningful Use Stage 3
Stage 3 of Meaningful Use will work to address key gaps in electronic health record functionality, to simplify/consolidate objectives and to new care models and national health priorities, according to draft recommendations made by the Health IT Policy Committee's Meaningful Use Workgroup last week. read more Source: Workgroup: Expect new standards in Meaningful Use Stage…
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Morning Headlines 8/13/13
Marlin Equity Acquires Health Care Software Firm Marlin Equity Partners acquires long-term care software vendor 6N Systems. Doctor lost control of patient records A physician in Canada is cited for failing to exercise control over health records when she tries to obtain the electronic medical records of her patients to start a new practice and…
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Impact-of-IT-on-Healthcare-Delivery
study on the impacts of IT on the delivery of our current and future healthcare models. MobiStine (healthcare apps on smartphone) participation during Expotech 2012 www.mobiStine.com (we turn mobile to best friend)
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IBM Edge2013: “The Big Data Imperative” by IBM VP Inhi Cho Suh
In this video, Inhi Cho Suh, IBM VP, Product Strategy & Information Management dispels myths around Big Data, speaks about how organisations are bringing a t…
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State highlights: Hundreds lost D.C. Medicaid without cause, some allege; N.Y. firms accused of political wrongdoing in Medicaid; unions fight NYC health care plan
A selection of health policy stories from the District of Columbia, New York, California, Florida, North Carolina and Colorado. From: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20130813/State-highlights-Hundreds-lost-DC-Medicaid-without-cause-some-allege3b-NY-firms-accused-of-political-wrongdoing-in-Medicaid3b-unions-fight-NYC-health-care-plan.aspx