Tag: informatics
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IG report: $543 million in Medicare overpayments remain uncollected
USA Today reports that the inspector general’s report noted that one of the factors keeping the government from recouping these funds was problems with a new accounting system. Meanwhile, Modern Healthcare reports that these types of overpayments are some of the most difficult to collect. From: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20130703/IG-report-24543-million-in-Medicare-overpayments-remain-uncollected.aspx
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Providers: Assess the risks in EHR vendor contracting
Providers need look beyond electronic health record vendor contracts themselves and take a risk management approach when evaluating an EHR purchase, since there are so many vendor-related risks that can adversely affect them, according to John Christiansen, a health attorney with Seattle-based Christiansen IT Law. read more Source: Providers: Assess the risks in EHR vendor…
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State highlights: Dartmouth joins N.H. Medicaid managed care
New Hampshire’s largest health care provider signed contracts Monday with three health care plans to join the state’s managed care network for Medicaid — a key to getting the network operating. Dartmouth-Hitchcock announced it will work with Well Sense Health Plan, Granite State Health Plan and Meridian Health Plan of New Hampshire to provide coordinated…
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Clash of clan join mr.virgin and ask stuff I’m health caster 2 have fun
via YouTube Capture. Video Rating: 1 / 5
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Jason at CMS
Recorded on November 10, 2011 using a Flip Video camcorder. Video Rating: 0 / 5
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Dispatch from Osaka
This week I’m in Osaka keynoting the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society annual meeting. Dr. Hiroyuki Yoshihara, my colleague from Kyoto University, hosted a pre-conference workshop on the state of EHRs throughout the world. For years I’ve said that the challenges of EHR adoption and healthcare information exchange are the same in every…
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Big data, advanced analytics, and speed
Robert Tas, managing director and head of digital marketing at JP Morgan Chase, explains how digital analytics can now provide near instant information about…
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Mobile Monday M-health 5
Mahdad. Video Rating: 5 / 5 Laiton on m-health.
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The Stage Is Set – Meaningful Use Stage 2 NPRM
The ONC announced Stage 2 of Meaningful Use at the 2012 HIMSS Conference. Join us to review what the ONC is proposing as HealthPOINT’s Clinical IT Manager di… Webinar: Strategies for Successfully Meeting Meaningful Use Stage 2 by Robert Hitchcock, M.D. FACEP, Vice President and CMIO, T-System, Inc. (12/05/2012)
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ONC Rolls Out Patient Safety Plan
A patient safety plan introduced July 1 by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) outlines how Health & Human Services plans to respond to calls for health IT to play a greater role in reducing medical errors. Central to the effort is the push to establish mechanisms that facilitate incident reporting…