Tag: informatics
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Think Tank Claims Medicare Proposal Would Cut Healthcare Costs Significantly
The Bipartisan Policy Center, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank which proposes policy reform legislation, has released a proposal that would lower healthcare costs and ultimately, reduce the federal deficit by $560 billion. The proposal includes a Medicare system that would allow beneficiaries to choose from three coverage options including the current fee-for-service model, a Medicare…
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PwC Study Shows Electronic Medical Records Deliver Efficiencies, Patient Safety, Improved Communication in Canada
With a two-fold increase in adoption since 2006, use of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) in community-based practices in Canada has yielded efficiency and patient care benefits valued at $1.3 billion, an independent study commissioned by Canada Health Infoway and prepared by PwC reveals. The study drew on more than 250 research publications from around the…
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EHR and HIT News for April 22nd
Today’s EHR and HIT News includes an update from Modernizing Medicine , on their membership into the HIMSS EHR Association. Additionally, athenahealth has announced that they’ll be participating in the Baird 2013 Growth Stock Conference next month in Chicago. There is also partnership news from Nightingale Preventive Care and HealthFusion where Nightingale medical providers will…
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Dashboard technology holds potential as patient clinical decision aid
An interactive decision dashboard format developed by researchers with the University of Rochester (N.Y.) School of Medicine & Dentistry can be adapted to create a clinically realistic prototype patient decision aid, according to an article published this week in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making . Such findings, the researchers say, represent the potential of…
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Translating clinical quality measures for queries proves complex
Massachusetts General Hospital computer scientists claim some success in translating between the Health Quality Measures Format (HQMF) and Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside (i2b2) though the work has been time consuming and complex. read more
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Overcoming the Obstacles to State-to-State HIE Interoperability
What can the government do to better enable health information exchange (HIE)? That’s the core question the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology recently asked in a request for information (RFI). Micky Tripathi, president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (MAeHC)…
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Is Your EHR Making You Less Efficient?
The following is a guest post by Michael Gleeson, Senior VP of Product Strategy for Arcadia Solutions. Michael Gleeson Electronic Health Records (EHRs) have a reputation for slowing down practices and increasing time, cost and overall productivity of a physician’s office or hospital system.
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VA leaders: ‘Next generation’ EHRs need enhanced usability
The “next generation” of electronic health record systems need to make more than “incremental” changes and move beyond the concept of serving as computerized paper charts, according to a new study of leaders in the Department of Veterans Affairs, published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association .
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New licensing agreement to promote discovery in health IT and improve economic Growth
The Regenstrief Institute Inc., an international leader in electronic medical records and health information exchange research, development and operations, is licensing its Indiana Network for Patient Care and DOCS4DOCS clinical results delivery software to a subsidiary of the Indiana Health Information Exchange. This licensing agreement represents the single most significant transfer of discovery out of…
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First Edition: April 22, 2013
Today’s headlines include reports ranging from how state leaders are dealing with the consequences of rejecting the health law’s Medicaid expansion to how pending immigration reform proposals could ease the nation’s physician shortage.