Tag: ehr
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MDS 3.0 Section D, Mood
We would like to hear from you. Please send all comments to MDS30Comments@cms.hhs.gov. Thank you for your time. Under the agreements with the Annals of Inter… Video Rating: 4 / 5
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Experts test new tool for providing tailor-made health care to elderly
Providing health care modulated on the specific needs of elderly for re-orienting national health systems toward a change of approach with patients. This should become the reference health strategy for the European Union, if it wants to achieve effective and efficient therapeutic goals, lowering costs while ensuring all appropriate health services, in particular when addressing…
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New studies indicate the law’s first year will be marked by slightly higher costs, more wellness incentives
As American workers prepare for the first open enrollment season of the Obamacare era, hints are surfacing about what awaits them – higher deductibles, more incentives for staying well and premium hikes that continue to out-strip wages, albeit by more moderate amounts than in the past. For coverage in 2014, the first year in which…
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Increasing MD Demand for EHRs: What’s the Uproar About? Part 2
In part 1 of this two-part blog series, we explored the current state of physician EHR use and suggested that the root cause of suboptimal physician EHR adoption is related to design issues and implementation planning problems. In part 2 here, we discuss the population health management issues that must be addressed in examining physician…
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Addicted to your mobile device? It could lead to healthy outcomes
When it comes to consumers’ obsessive use of mobile devices to run mHealth apps and get health information, this kind of technology “addiction” might not be a bad thing, so argues… read more Source: Addicted to your mobile device? It could lead to healthy outcomes
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Top Health IT Questions about Windows 8*
Hemang Patel, a Healthcare Strategist with Microsoft, address the key features and benefits of Windows 8 that health IT CIOs need to know. Listen as he cover… Video Rating: 3 / 5 Phoenix-based mobile app developer MediaKube was selected by Phoenix Children’s Hospital as the company who will create this first-of-its-kind mobile healthc… Video Rating:…
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Direct Project Coming to New Jersey Providers
The New Jersey Health Information Technology Extension Center (NJ-HITEC) will be providing its members with the Direct Project capabilities, which allows provider to securely exchange health information over the internet. The New Jersey Health Information Technology Extension Center (NJ-HITEC) will be providing its members with the Direct Project capabilities, which allows provider to securely exchange…
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MGMA Asks HHS to Delay Imposing MU Penalties on Physicians
In an Aug. 21 letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Susan Turney, M.D., president and CEO of the Medical Group Management Association, called on Sebelius to embrace a series of actions designed to ease the burden on physicians trying to meet to meet the meaningful use requirements in the HITECH Act, including instituting a moratorium…
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EHR and HIT News for August 22nd
Today’s EHR and HIT News includes updates from MaxMD, who has announced a partnership with NJ-HITEC, news on the formation of a new Podiatry Independent Physicians Association (IPA) that has been formed in Illinois, and finally partnership news from ZirMed, and Catch Data Systems to provide GE Centricity customers with integration into ZirMed’s products. MaxMD…
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MGMA Wants a Moratorium on Penalties for Docs Who Have Completed Stage 1 MU Requirements
The Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) has expressed their concerns about the current meaningful use environment in a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. In the letter they cite a “diminished opportunity for physician practices to meet the requirements for State 2 of the program.” In the letter the MGMA requests an…