Tag: ehr
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This week on Capitol Hill: Repeal vote number 40
The House of Representatives will consider a bill that would prevent the Internal Revenue Service from implementing the law. Specifically, it states that neither the Treasury secretary nor any designee of the Treasury secretary may implement any part of the Affordable Care Act. Source: This week on Capitol Hill: Repeal vote number 40
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U.S. bans new home health, ambulance providers in three high-fraud cities from Medicare, Medicaid
Federal officials are temporarily banning certain types of home health and ambulance providers in three major, high-fraud cities from enrolling in Medicare or Medicaid. From: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20130730/US-bans-new-home-health-ambulance-providers-in-three-high-fraud-cities-from-Medicare-Medicaid.aspx
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Apps for Detecting Melanoma [DermTV.com Epi #476]
There’s a plethora of health apps for smartphones. Some provide advice, and are great. Others go as far as to allegedly help users diagnose actual medical co…
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Children who grow up in poverty are more likely to smoke cigarettes
Children who grow up in poverty are more likely than wealthier children to smoke cigarettes, but they are less likely to binge drink and are no more prone to use marijuana, according to researchers at Duke Medicine. Source: Children who grow up in poverty are more likely to smoke cigarettes
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Fewer doctors treating Medicare patients, CMS says
Amid payment rates and rules they dislike, more doctors are opting to not treat Medicare patients, say the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. In the meantime, health care providers ready different models to change how Medicare pays doctors. From: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20130730/Fewer-doctors-treating-Medicare-patients-CMS-says.aspx
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Morning Headlines 7/30/13
GAO: Fed IT projects need aligned management The Government Accountability Office releases a report chiding several government agencies for their failed IT projects and project management methods, including the VA/DoD iEHR project, and the FDA’s MARCS program. The report says “the federal government has achieved little of the productivity improvements that private industry has realized…
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4 ways nurses can help implement mHealth
Though they are on the front lines of patient care, nurses are taking a backseat to doctors as hospitals seek to implement mobile healthcare. In fact, nurses are often excluded from the front-end… read more Source: 4 ways nurses can help implement mHealth
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mHealth Tanzania PPP: Sarah Emerson 2012
Sarah Emerson at the mHealth Conference in Washinton December 2012. Contact information: info@mhealthtzppp.net. Twitter: @mHealthTzPPP. Video Rating: 0 / 5 Anne Giles Clelland, president of Handshake Media, Incorporated, presented “The Entrepreneurial Clinician: What Clinicians with Great Ideas for Health Care M…
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The Promise of Mobile: Connecting to Underserved Populations
For a growing number of healthcare organizations, mHealth is being used to engage, serve, educate, and improve the health of socioeconomically disadvantaged patients. Whether it’s simply by texting people tidbits of information or monitoring how much medication a patient is taking, providers are finding meaningful ways to connect to the underserved. If it hasn’t arrived…
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Deepak Advani: Big Data Analytics
Deepak Advani, IBM VP, Business Analytics Products, defines “big data analytics”, answers the question “why now?” and walks “Turbo” Todd Watson through some … Video Rating: 0 / 5