Tag: Health IT
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Viewpoints: GOP trapped between angry base and reality of health law; small businesses ‘scrambling;’ competing views of Medicaid expansion in Va.
Recent political reporting suggests that Republican leaders are in a state of high anxiety, trapped between an angry base that still views Obamacare as the moral equivalent of slavery and the reality that health reform is the law of the land and is going to happen (Paul Krugman, 8/18). From: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20130820/Viewpoints-GOP-trapped-between-angry-base-and-reality-of-health-law3b-small-businesses-scrambling3b-competing-views-of-Medicaid-expansion-in-Va.aspx
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Care-n-Share
Care-n-Share helps families experiencing a health crisis or caring for a senior by creating a private customizable web site to build a unique family and comm… Video Rating: 3 / 5
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Pilot project designed to help patients navigate complex cancer treatment, improves health care
An experimental health information exchange being tested in the north Georgia city of Rome is helping Koren Sinnock keep her travel plans. A breast cancer patient, Sinnock had been reluctant to travel very far from her doctors until the new program promised to provide access to her medical records from anywhere she might happen to…
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With Medicaid expansion, some people will be newly eligible while others will move to health exchanges
News outlets examine how the Medicaid expansion and other health law changes might reshape the program in various locations across the country. From: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20130820/With-Medicaid-expansion-some-people-will-be-newly-eligible-while-others-will-move-to-health-exchanges.aspx
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Health law critics raise privacy concerns about navigator program
Some state attorneys general say the plans for hiring and training navigators don’t have enough consumer safeguards. From: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20130820/Health-law-critics-raise-privacy-concerns-about-navigator-program.aspx
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Struggling with medication adherence: A bitter pill to swallow
It sounds so simple to have people take their drugs on time and in the dosages prescribed by their doctors. However, medication non-adherence is a serious problem in this country that is unhealthy,… read more Source: Struggling with medication adherence: A bitter pill to swallow
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SCIPing Forward Together: Revelations from One Six Sigma Perioperative Project
It was fascinating to read a recent account in the July/August issue of “Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare” about a Six Sigma project around improving perioperative outcomes and processes. Not only was the case study a worthwhile read in itself, it clearly had implications for healthcare IT leaders. read more Source: SCIPing Forward Together: Revelations…
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James BonTempo “mHealth: Saving Lives, one mobile phone at a time” – Ignite Baltimore 5
Five minutes, 20 slides, rotating automatically every 15 seconds. James BonTempo, technology advisor for Jhpiego, a non-profit international health organizat… Video Rating: 5 / 5
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In HIPAA “Possession” is 10/10ths of The Law
There seems to still be a fair amount of discussion around what makes a vendor a business associate. This is actually troubling when you consider that we are about 30 days away from enforcement of the new rules. There seems to still be a fair amount of discussion around what makes a vendor a business…