Tag: informatics
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Viewpoints: A ‘clever’ fix for contraception coverage; Sanjay Gupta warns doctors to pay attention to health overhaul
Many nonprofit religious organizations have balked at having to insure their employees’ birth control — because they don’t believe in artificial contraception — under the Affordable Care Act. On Friday, the Obama administration announced a solution to this problem. The new health care law guarantees access to preventive services, and contraception falls, appropriately, into that…
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Jorge. Fernandez Garcia – Hospital San Juan de Dios – Mobile Apps & Services – Doctors 2.0 & You
Panel – Mobile Health Apps and Services – Jorge Juan Fernandez Garcia – Doctors 2.0 & You Moderator – Len Starnes Daniel Vierbuchen — DocCheck Dr Alexander …
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Hospitals, doctors consider changes amid Medicare hospital readmissions scrutiny
Hospitals and doctors are feeling the health care law heat as officials try to reduce readmissions and increase quality of care in the Medicare program. PBS NewsHour looks at the law’s hospital readmissions penalties and Medpage Today explains what the hospitals are doing. From: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20130702/Hospitals-doctors-consider-changes-amid-Medicare-hospital-readmissions-scrutiny.aspx
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Is FDA guidance sidetracked by Health IT regulatory framework?
There is a tug of war going on in Washington between rival industry groups lobbying the Department of Health and Human Services in an effort to influence the timing of the Food and Drug… read more Source: Is FDA guidance sidetracked by Health IT regulatory framework?
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Nearly half of states opt not to expand Medicaid
With most state legislative sessions coming to a close, 23 states and the District of Columbia have agreed to expand the program, as laid out under the health law. Many of the others will leave billions of federal dollars on the table, while a handful are still undecided. From: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20130702/Nearly-half-of-states-opt-not-to-expand-Medicaid.aspx
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Transformational leadership style associated with increased well-being among employees
A transformational leadership style—valued for stimulating innovation and worker performance—is also associated with increased well-being among employees, reports a study in the July Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, official publication of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM). Source: Transformational leadership style associated with increased well-being among employees
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Survey: Patients more accepting of mobile app than prescription drugs
A survey by healthcare marketing and advertising agency Digitas Health has found that 90 percent of patients would accept the offer of a mobile app, while only 66 percent of respondents would accept… read more Source: Survey: Patients more accepting of mobile app than prescription drugs
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Big Data Analytics
Learn more about the tools, techniques and technologies for working productively with data at any scale. This session will introduce the family of data analy…
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Hearing: Interoperability, regulations are main obstacles for mHealth developers
The biggest challenges confronting mobile medical app entrepreneurs are interoperability and government regulations, according to witness testimony from four app developers at a June 27 hearing held… read more Source: Hearing: Interoperability, regulations are main obstacles for mHealth developers
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The FY14 BIDMC Information Technology Budget
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center runs on an October 1 to September 30 fiscal year, so Summer is always a time of capital and operating budget decision making. We’ve finished our FY14 capital budget submission and requested $10.7 million to fund all the needed infrastructure/applications supporting 3000 doctors, 22000 users, and a growing 1.2 billion…