Tag: ehr
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Bundled Payment Analytics by DataGen
The federal healthcare reform law has many hospitals evaluating new delivery and reimbursement models, including bundled payments. But how do you identify wh…
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Study: Popular search engines share search data about medical conditions with third parties
Researchers find that popular websites share search data with advertisers and other third parties. The National Security Agency is tracking your phone calls. And online snoops may be keeping tabs on your Internet health searches, too. From: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20130710/Study-Popular-search-engines-share-search-data-about-medical-conditions-with-third-parties.aspx
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New national survey raises question over long-term success of health information exchange
While record numbers of hospitals and doctors participate in electronic health information exchange efforts, which enable medical histories to follow patients as they move between healthcare providers, the long-term success of these programs is in question. Source: New national survey raises question over long-term success of health information exchange
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Study: Some current Medicaid enrollees may not qualify for benefits that newly enrolled will get
George Washington researchers find that key preventive services included in the health law and slated for millions who will get coverage in the law’s Medicaid expansion may not be extended to people already covered by Medicaid. From: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20130710/Study-Some-current-Medicaid-enrollees-may-not-qualify-for-benefits-that-newly-enrolled-will-get.aspx
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Mobile Health Technology Can Reach the Remotest Corners
Consider this: a mobile phone with applications to detect cancer and tuberculosis, control sugar levels for diabetics and monitor vital signs. The champions …
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The Innovator’s Challenge
I’ve written many blog posts about our efforts along the path to ICD-10 that will enhance our inpatient clinical documentation. We’re hard at work planning the improvements we think are foundational to support care coordination, compliance, and quality measurement goals. It’s very challenging to create tools which simultaneously enable rapid, accurate, and complete clinical documentation.…
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Is There a Role for EHR Simulation in Medical Training?
After creating a simulation of their Epic EHR, researchers at Oregon Health & Science University are studying the number and types of errors clinicians miss when reviewing simulated cases in the ICU. Over-sedation was the least-recognized error (16%) and only 32% of the participants recognized inappropriate antibiotic dosing. Could making simulation a regular part of…
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Quality Measures Workgroup unofficially endorses ‘innovation track’
Health IT leaders expressed interest in a voluntary “innovation track” for reporting clinical quality measurements for Meaningful Use Stage 3 at a July 1 meeting of the ONC Health IT Policy… read more Source: Quality Measures Workgroup unofficially endorses 'innovation track'
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Mobile Technology: Beyond Bedside Meds Administration at Colorado’s Parkview
Through the mobile care orchestration platform, one medical center has improved patient safety, care team awareness, and coordination across its clinical departments In 2007, Pueblo, Colo.-based Parkview Medical Center started using bedside medication administration technology from IntelliDOT Corporation, a vendor in San Diego that specialized in healthcare workflow management solutions. In 2009, IntelliDOT became Patient…