Tag: Health IT
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Mobile Healthcare
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UHC Partners With NYU Langone, Cleveland Clinic on Data Exchange
United Healthcare (UHC), the Chicago-based alliance of 118 academic medical centers and 299 of its affiliated hospitals, has partnered with New York University’s Langone Medical Center and the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio to work on seamlessly transferring patient data. United Healthcare (UHC), the Chicago-based alliance of 118 academic medical centers and 299 of its affiliated…
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Western States Consortium Pilot of Direct Demonstrates the Power of Federal/State Coordination
Health care providers in California and Oregon are now querying each others’ provider directories and sending interstate Direct messages as a result of the Western States Consortium project. The Consortium’s final report, released today, details how the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) collaborated with 13 states to successfully test ways…
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Study Finds EHR Errors Related to Default Values Could Affect Patient Safety
Of the more than 300 events related to electronic health record (EHR) software default values analyzed by the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority, three percent resulted in unsafe conditions or prolonged hospitalization of patients, according to the Authority’s new report. Of the more than 300 events related to electronic health record (EHR) software default values analyzed…
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Researchers Explore Pediatric Care Coordination with Health Information Regulations
A new study from the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS) has looked at the relationship between health information laws and health system improvements for children and adolescents under Medicaid’s Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment (EPSDT) benefit. A new study from the George Washington University School of Public…
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Mostashari urges docs to focus on making IT tools meaningful
Doctors struggling with the federal mandates to implement healthcare technology and the push to evidence-based medicine should focus on things they can control, rather than things they can’t, outgoing ONC Chief Farzad Mostashari suggested in a recent interview with Medscape. read more Source: Mostashari urges docs to focus on making IT tools meaningful
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VA Hands Out Lucrative Telehealth Contract
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has doled out a five-year, $28.8 million contract to AMC Health for telehealth software and services, the government agency and vendor jointly announced. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has doled out a five-year, $28.8 million contract to AMC Health for telehealth software and services, the government agency and…
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Estimated HIPAA compliance time toll a whopping 32.8 million hours
Healthcare organizations will spend 32.8 million hours complying with the modified HIPAA omnibus rule, according to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights. read more Source: Estimated HIPAA compliance time toll a whopping 32.8 million hours
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Advocate Health slapped with lawsuit after massive data breach
Advocate Health Care – who in August reported the second largest HIPAA data breach to date after four unencrypted laptops were stolen from its facility, compromising the protected health information and Social Security numbers of more than 4 million people – has now been slapped with a class action lawsuit filed by affected patients. read…
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Implementing the EMR
Downfall parody in which Hitler portrays a physician struggling to implement an electronic medical record.