Tag: Health IT
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MHealth at International CTIA WIRELESS 2012®
MHealth is one of the fastest growing vertical markets in the wireless industry, and the upcoming International CTIA WIRELESS 2012® is the place to see or pr…
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How Clinicians Can Connect Key Stakeholders To Craft A Healthcare Community That Empowers Patients
It’s no secret that patient engagement is critical to achieve Meaningful Use, increase patient satisfaction, lower hospital operating costs and promote higher usage of better data. In fact, you probably have several goals for your patient portal of choice, specific to your needs. Source: How Clinicians Can Connect Key Stakeholders To Craft A Healthcare Community…
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State highlights: N.M. officials seek less Medicaid money next year
The agency managing New Mexico’s largest health care program is asking for less — not more — state money to operate in the upcoming budget year. It’s the first time in more than a decade the Human Services Department isn’t seeking an increase in state aid for Medicaid, which provides health care for a fourth…
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Michigan’s Medicaid expansion could act as model for bipartisan health care reform in other states
Michigan’s newly expanded Medicaid program could act as a model for other states to achieve bipartisan health care reform even in a heated national political climate, says the head of the University of Michigan’s health policy institute in an article published online today by the New England Journal of Medicine. Source: Michigan’s Medicaid expansion could…
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Lawmakers weigh deal giving FDA reater clout after meningitis outbreak
House and Senate negotiators appear to be making progress towards stiffer regulations over the type of drugs that caused last year’s outbreak. In other Capitol Hill news, the GOP pushes to repeal a tax on medical devices, and rural health care providers ask for more time to meet electronic health record deadlines. Source: Lawmakers weigh…
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Fed, state work on Medicaid applications in the marketplaces face delays
Meanwhile, in New Hampshire, the panel tasked with deciding if the state will expand its program faces an Oct. 15 deadline to provide recommendations to the legislature. From: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20130926/Fed-state-work-on-Medicaid-applications-in-the-marketplaces-face-delays.aspx
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Perception and Reality: Clinical Decision Support
It’s fair to surmise that thanks in large part to alert fatigue, many providers are rolling their collective eyes at the notion of current clinical decision support systems. However, the words of a prominent CDS advocate should get people thinking differently about an area that seems to face various misconceptions. Full disclosure: I am not…
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RCM Industry Expects Growth, but Struggles for Priority in Hospitals
The $2.4 billion hospital revenue cycle management (RCM) software and services industry expects double digit increases in 2014, despite many U.S. hospitals admitting they don’t have a sustainable RCM plan in place, according to two reports released by market research firm Black Book. The $2.4 billion hospital revenue cycle management (RCM) software and services industry…
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Delivering Successful Care Coordination: Creating the IT Foundation for Accountable Care
Joseph M. Taylor, vice president and ACO practice leader at the Wayne,-Pa.-based FluidEdge Consulting, has produced an in-depth examination of the issues surrounding the foundation-laying for accountable care organizations. Healthcare Informatics will be publishing the complete article in a serialized form. Here is section 1, along with an introductory interview with HCI Editor-in-Chief Mark Hagland.…
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Meaningful Use – Why?
A treatment of Meaningful Use as a goal-oriented patient-centric approach to medicine. Presentation given by Ben Power on October 20, 2011 at Barrett Hospita… Video Rating: 0 / 5 Kevin Larsen, MD, Medical Director of Meaningful Use for the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, talks… Video…