Tag: Health IT
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KLAS Report: Smart Pump/EMR Integration Harder Than Expected, but Worth It
The momentum surrounding the adoption of integrating smart pumps and EMR technology is outweighing the myriad of integration challenges facing providers. In a recent report entitled Smart Pump/EMR Integration: Not Easy, but Worth the Effort, early adopters share their insights, progress, and the impact this technology is having in their organizations. “Providers make it clear…
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Can Healthcare “Step on a Scale” Today?
At the Healthcare Forum, Dr. Farzad Mostashari posited an important question: Can healthcare step on a scale today? Embedded in this question is the idea that healthcare should have a simple way to measure the quality of care it provides. Dr. Mostashari suggested that most practices today can’t step on the proverbial scale. However, the…
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Medicare premiums hold the line — increasing $1 in price from the past three years
The Obama administration cast the average monthly premium price increase as a matter of inches. From: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20130801/Medicare-premiums-hold-the-line-increasing-241-in-price-from-the-past-three-years.aspx
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ONC contract guidance attempts to level the EHR playing field
Regular readers of FierceEMR know that I tend to be cynical about new developments. I don't take them at face value and delve deeper to see if there's anything in addition going on behind the scenes. And so it is with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT's new “legal” guidance on EHR…
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Data hub will be key to health law operation but also raises privacy concerns
Bloomberg news service examines the complications involved in building the hub that will connect databases of seven federal agencies. From: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20130801/Data-hub-will-be-key-to-health-law-operation-but-also-raises-privacy-concerns.aspx
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Clint McClellan: 2011 mHealth Summit
http://www.mhealthalliance.org Clint McClellan, Senior Director of Strategic Marketing at Qualcomm, Inc. and Chairman of the Board for Continua Health Allian… Victry, a community health worker, uses the Vodacom mHealth Applications known as Nompilo. Nompilo means “Mother of Health” in Zulu and is a name often ascri…
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Cedars-Sinai physicist receives William D. Coolidge Award for pioneering work in radiation oncology
Benedick Fraass, PhD, FAAPM, FASTRO, FACR, received the highest honor from the American Association of Physicists in Medicine — the William D. Coolidge Award — for his distinguished career achievements in medical physics, including his pioneering work in radiation oncology. Source: Cedars-Sinai physicist receives William D. Coolidge Award for pioneering work in radiation oncology
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Ohio lawmaker introduces Medicaid expansion bill; Mich. readies legislative moves on expansion
In Michigan, a committee vote on the expansion could come today. Elsewhere, New Hampshire and Wisconsin are considering expansion of coverage to childless adults, among others. From: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20130801/Ohio-lawmaker-introduces-Medicaid-expansion-bill3b-Mich-readies-legislative-moves-on-expansion.aspx
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Aetna’s profits rise after managed care plan purchase
The insurer’s second quarter earnings increased 17 percent as it reaped enrollment and revenue gains from its acquisition of the managed health care company Coventry Health Care Inc. Source: Aetna's profits rise after managed care plan purchase
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The Meaning of Meaningful Use
OA Systems (http://www.oasite.com) held a seminar titled “The Meaning of Meaningful Use” on Monday October 18, 2010 in Chicago, IL. The invited speakers were… Video Rating: 5 / 5