Tag: Health IT
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MGMA wants to delay MU Stage 2 penalties
Vendor readiness concerns about Meaningful Use Stage 2 are at the heart of a request by the Medical Group Management Association for a moratorium on penalties imposed on physicians who have successfully completed Stage 1 requirements. read more Source: MGMA wants to delay MU Stage 2 penalties
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Healthcare Gets Better: Siemens and IBM XIV Storage
Partners for 30 years, Siemens and IBM offer excellent enterprise storage value to healthcare organizations with XIV, with customer-acclaimed performance, re… Video Rating: 0 / 5
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Mobile Technology and Health in Malawi
This story is a series of reports on the impact of mobile technology and health in 10 African countries. Imani Cheers is a 2013 New Media Fellow with the Int…
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Viewpoints: Did Sen. Cruz get early benefits from Canadian health care?; Medicaid expansion won’t work if doctors don’t accept patients
Quite without realizing it, apparently, the location of Cruz’s birth automatically made him a citizen of our socialist (in healthcare, at least) neighbor to the north. Did his mother receive excellent free medical care under Canada’s single-payer healthcare system when her baby was born in Calgary, Alberta, in 1970? Did little Ted, who moved back…
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How to Keep up with Stage 2 Meaningful Use
The 4Medapproved Learning Lunch featuring Joy Rios, industry expert in Meaningful Use discusses the key challenges facing eligible providers to attain and ma… Achieving Meaningful Use #7: Record Demographics is easy with Waiting Room Solutions web-based EMR. For more information go to: http://www.waitingroomsolutio… Video Rating: 0 / 5
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USA today probe finds thousands of docs practicing despite misconduct
Also, a study finds that Medicare patients leaving the hospital can’t always remember what was wrong with them and how to follow up. From: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20130822/USA-today-probe-finds-thousands-of-docs-practicing-despite-misconduct.aspx
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Generic, therapeutic drug substitutions can help lower Medicare costs
Therapeutic drug substitutions have the potential to double or even triple annual cost savings compared with savings achieved with generic substitutions, according to O. Kenrik Duru and colleagues from the University of California, Los Angeles. Source: Generic, therapeutic drug substitutions can help lower Medicare costs
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Are they talking? Mixed messages on whether Texas is seeking health law funds
News outlets try to pin down whether Texas officials are in discussions with the Obama administration to gain access to an estimated $100 million in health law funds. Meanwhile, a South Dakota panel lays out the pros and cons of expanding Medicaid in that state. From: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20130822/Are-they-talking-Mixed-messages-on-whether-Texas-is-seeking-health-law-funds.aspx
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Sinai Hospital’s chief of Surgery chosen to receive 2013 Innovator of the Year award
Mark R. Katlic, M.D., chief of Surgery at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, has been selected to receive a 2013 Innovator of the Year award from The Daily Record. He was recognized for his pioneering work as the director of the groundbreaking Sinai Center for Geriatric Surgery. Source: Sinai Hospital’s chief of Surgery chosen to receive…
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Online Tech Seminar: Pocket Healthcare: The Promise and Challenges of Mobile Health
Mobile phones are becoming an increasingly important platform for the delivery of health interventions. Phones are used to encourage physical activity and he… Video Rating: 0 / 5 Disruptive technologies displace an earlier technology while adding greater value. Gone are the days of physicians sitting at their desks at the end of the d…