Tag: Health IT
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A Look at Email and HIPAA
For more background on this topic, check out my previous post “Practice Fusion Violates Some Physicians’ Trust in Sending Millions of Emails to Their Patients” Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and do not offer legal advice. The others quoted in this post are offering general information or interpretation and not specific legal advice or…
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Crowded Plates: For CIOs, Policy Mandates are Piling Up
As healthcare policy leaders wade into the thicket of issues confronting CIOs, one thing is clear: each issue has its own set of competing challenges, and there are no simple solutions. Healthcare Informatics Associate Editor Gabriel Perna recently spoke with seven industry insiders and leaders to attempt to unfurl the challenges that surround each regulatory…
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INDUSTRY EXCLUSIVE: CSC’s New Report Looks at the Challenges Inherent in Leveraging Data for Accountable Care
A team of researchers in the Global Institute for Emerging Healthcare Practices, a division of CSC, has published a new report that examines the challenges inherent in leveraging data and information for accountable or coordinated care. Lead author Jane Metzger speaks exclusively with HCI’s Mark Hagland about the implications in the report’s findings for healthcare…
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Report: ACO Lowered Costs for Medicare Beneficiaries
A recent research effort out of Massachusetts has determined that at least one accountable care organization (ACO) initiative was directly responsible for lower spending for Medicare patients. A recent research effort out of Massachusetts has determined that at least one accountable care organization (ACO) initiative was directly responsible for lower spending for Medicare patients. read…
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Wisconsin state HIE set to go live
Wisconsin, a state with a high percentage of providers using electronic health record systems, is about to launch its statewide health information exchange. read more Source: Wisconsin state HIE set to go live
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Brett Davis: Personalized Medicine: Humanity’s Ultimate Big Data Challenge
Visit www.pmwcintl.com for more info. Video Rating: 5 / 5 This video shows you how to track features in your software using EQATEC Analytics.
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Using EHRs Appropriately: A Team-Based Approach to Clinical Care
In 2003, Peter Anderson, M.D., a primary care physician in practice for more than 20 years at the time, says he hated medicine after failure to use the practice’s EHR appropriately resulted in an $80,000 deficit. Anderson knew he was drowning, and had to find a way to fall back in love with medicine. It…
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Frustrated with your EHR? Forget about building your own
Though physicians largely are unhappy with their electronic health record systems, they should quell the urge to build their own from scratch, according to a post published recently at The Health Care Blog. read more Source: Frustrated with your EHR? Forget about building your own
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Report: Kansas HIEs Struggle with Secondary Use Policy Questions
KHIN and LACIE have tried but failed to reach agreement about secondary use of data, according to a story on the Kansas Health Institute web site. Although sharing data would be valuable for providers in the state and the technical details around exchange have been worked out, it is not happening yet. Policies involving secondary…
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Setback for Sutter after $1B EHR crashes
This story was updated at 2:16 p.m. ET. The nearly $1 billion electronic health record system at Sutter Health in Northern California crashed early this week, leaving nurses and clinical staff unable to access any patient information for a full day. read more Source: Setback for Sutter after $1B EHR crashes