Tag: Health IT
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Hospital Optimizes Blood Distribution With Handheld Scanners
UMC St Radboud is a 1,000-bed university hospital in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The hospital employs over 9,000 people and hosts 3,000 students. It includes several departments that handle different branches of medicine. The transfusion department, in particular, plays a central role as it distributes blood and blood products throughout the hospital. Accuracy is key to…
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Hospital Optimizes Blood Product Distribution With Handheld Scanners
UMC St Radboud is a 1,000-bed university hospital in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The hospital employs over 9,000 people and hosts 3,000 students. It includes several departments that handle different branches of medicine. The transfusion department, in particular, plays a central role as it distributes blood and blood products throughout the hospital. Accuracy is key to…
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No clear leader in BI technology market
Though analytics are considered key in efforts to improve care and cut costs, healthcare providers say big-name vendors' offerings fail to adequately meet their needs, according to a new KLAS… read more …read more Source: No clear leader in BI technology market
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New Mexico Medicaid overhaul OK’d
Medicaid recipients will face co-pays for some treatments and have their medical services tracked as part of a program overhaul that is intended to lower the costs of providing health care, Gov. Susana Martinez’s administration announced Monday. There will be no changes in determining who qualifies for Medicaid, which serves about a quarter of New…
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House subcommittee schedules markup of ‘doc fix’ bill
The panel on July 22 will consider a measure repealing the current Medicare physician payment formula. Also in the news, some fact-checking on House GOP efforts to repeal the health law. From: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20130716/House-subcommittee-schedules-markup-of-doc-fix-bill.aspx
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CareCloud announces release of cloud-based EHR solution
CareCloud, the fastest-growing provider of cloud-based practice management, electronic health records, and medical billing software and services, today announced the next generation release of CareCloud Charts, the company’s cloud-based EHR solution. …read more Source: CareCloud announces release of cloud-based EHR solution
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For Providers, Revenue Assurance through the ICD-10 Transition is Key
The following is a guest blog post by Vik Anantha, Vice President – Financial Management Solutions, Edifecs, Inc. We all know ICD-10 is a complex and costly initiative. One of the promises of ICD-10 is the potential for enhanced granularity, laterality and overall reporting accuracy. This is particularly important to providers because health plans use…
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Roundup: Ore. seniors get special medical deduction, but less generous than hoped; Six fired at Calif. hospital after patient data breaches
Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber and Democrats wanted to do away with it. Oregonian columnist Susan Nielsen opined against it. Even AARP was OK with its demise. But when the smoke cleared this week, the Oregon Legislature merely curtailed it. Beginning this tax year, only seniors age 62 or older can deduct out-of-pocket medical expenses, not…
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Big Brother in our health and fitness apps
This week, the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a California nonprofit dedicated to empowering individuals to protect their privacy, issued a study on mobile health and fitness apps based on a… read more From: http://www.fiercemobilehealthcare.com/story/big-brother-our-health-and-fitness-apps/2013-07-16?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss
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ACO pioneers face decision deadline
Modern Healthcare reports that Medicare Pioneers have until July 15 to let the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services know if they plan to stay in the program for a second year. Meanwhile, the Connecticut Mirror offers a picture of how accountable care organizations work. …read more Source: ACO pioneers face decision deadline