Tag: Health IT
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Children who grow up in poverty are more likely to smoke cigarettes
Children who grow up in poverty are more likely than wealthier children to smoke cigarettes, but they are less likely to binge drink and are no more prone to use marijuana, according to researchers at Duke Medicine. Source: Children who grow up in poverty are more likely to smoke cigarettes
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Fewer doctors treating Medicare patients, CMS says
Amid payment rates and rules they dislike, more doctors are opting to not treat Medicare patients, say the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. In the meantime, health care providers ready different models to change how Medicare pays doctors. From: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20130730/Fewer-doctors-treating-Medicare-patients-CMS-says.aspx
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Morning Headlines 7/30/13
GAO: Fed IT projects need aligned management The Government Accountability Office releases a report chiding several government agencies for their failed IT projects and project management methods, including the VA/DoD iEHR project, and the FDA’s MARCS program. The report says “the federal government has achieved little of the productivity improvements that private industry has realized…
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4 ways nurses can help implement mHealth
Though they are on the front lines of patient care, nurses are taking a backseat to doctors as hospitals seek to implement mobile healthcare. In fact, nurses are often excluded from the front-end… read more Source: 4 ways nurses can help implement mHealth
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mHealth Tanzania PPP: Sarah Emerson 2012
Sarah Emerson at the mHealth Conference in Washinton December 2012. Contact information: info@mhealthtzppp.net. Twitter: @mHealthTzPPP. Video Rating: 0 / 5 Anne Giles Clelland, president of Handshake Media, Incorporated, presented “The Entrepreneurial Clinician: What Clinicians with Great Ideas for Health Care M…
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The Promise of Mobile: Connecting to Underserved Populations
For a growing number of healthcare organizations, mHealth is being used to engage, serve, educate, and improve the health of socioeconomically disadvantaged patients. Whether it’s simply by texting people tidbits of information or monitoring how much medication a patient is taking, providers are finding meaningful ways to connect to the underserved. If it hasn’t arrived…
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Deepak Advani: Big Data Analytics
Deepak Advani, IBM VP, Business Analytics Products, defines “big data analytics”, answers the question “why now?” and walks “Turbo” Todd Watson through some … Video Rating: 0 / 5
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Leapfrog Group Launches Tool to Calculate Hospital Error Costs
The Leapfrog Group, a Washington, D.C.-based healthcare-purchaser organization focused on patient safety and value, has launched a new online tool that allows purchasers to calculate how much they spend annually on unnecessary costs due to medical errors that occur within general acute care hospitals. The Leapfrog Group, a Washington, D.C.-based healthcare-purchaser organization focused on patient…
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Do Hospitals Need an EDW to Participate in an ACO?
The following is a guest blog post by Dana Sellers, Chief Executive Officer of Encore Health Resources. Dana’s comments are in response to my post titled, “Skinny Data Solves Specific Problems While BIG DATA Looks for Unseen Problems.” For more context, also check out my post on Skinny Data in Healthcare, and my video interview…
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Message matters: The persuasive impact of health blogs
Health-focused blogs and journals can have a positive impact on patients, but they're much more effective when written in non-narrative form by authors to whom readers can relate. read more Source: Message matters: The persuasive impact of health blogs