Tag: informatics
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Oklahoma Medicaid EHR Incentive Program Success: Drs. Melissa and Jeffrey Gastorf
Drs. Melissa and Jeffrey Gastorf describe their experience of upgrading to electronic health records, and receiving their CMS Incentive Program payment. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) hosted a National Provider Call on the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule to Address the 2012 Physician Quali… Video Rating: 5 / 5
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Viewpoints: Mich. gov. says Medicaid expansion would save money, lives; CMS on making medical devices affordable
The people of Michigan elected the members of the state Senate to be leaders, not vacationers. Unfortunately, the Senate forgot that Thursday and adjourned for its summer vacation. It left Lansing without voting on a bill that would provide health care coverage to nearly half a million working Michiganders. Ensuring access to affordable, quality health…
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Dea Belazi, PharmD, Discusses Medication Adherence
Dea Belazi, PharmD, Vice President, Payer & Healthcare Solutions, Source Healthcare Analytics, says that medication adherence is a major keystone that allows…
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Connecting the Meditech Hospitals in Massachusetts
Yesterday I joined several Massachusetts CIOs at a Meditech healthcare information exchange kickoff meeting. Here are the slides we used. Meditech has chosen to do the right thing – support the Direct protocol without requiring a vendor specific HISP, an interoperability “subscription” or transaction fees. Nationwide, any of Meditech’s Meaningful Use Stage 2 certified platforms…
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MeHI Awards $2.35 Million to Accelerate Connections to Statewide HIE
The Massachusetts eHealth Institute at the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MeHI) has announced 32 collaborative projects that will receive HIway Implementation Grants of up to $75,000 each that will assist 80 healthcare organizations across the Commonwealth in connecting to the statewide health information exchange (HIE), the Mass HIway, enabling them to improve patient care and reduce…
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The Unfilled Opportunity
We’ve come a long way with telemedicine and yet it’s in its “relative infancy,” a recent report from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) revealed. That’s too bad because as the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) showed me, there’s a lot of opportunity out there for it to do more. I’ve been thinking…
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Discovery 13: Mobile Healthcare Futures Panel
Mobile healthcare is a very sensitive topic. Although it is high on both personal and institutional agendas, the all-encompassing benefits of provisioning se… Healthcare Chief Medical Information Office, Dr. Ferdinand Velasco, speaks with Maribel Lopez of Lopez Research on how doctors are embracing mobile devices a… Video Rating: 0 / 5
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CHIME, others want feds to take their time with health IT regulation
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, the American Medical Informatics Association and a bevy of other healthcare information technology stakeholders want the federal government to tread carefully in its efforts to regulate the industry. read more …read more Source: CHIME, others want feds to take their time with health IT regulation
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Patient data protection: Let’s get back to basics
Looking to keep your patient's data safe? You'd be wise to remember that human error often lies at the core of a breach, and build your efforts from there. read more original article source From: http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/patient-data-protection-lets-get-back-basics/2013-06-24?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss
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Surgeons in Spain first to put Google Glass to the test
We've already heard doctors' predictions for using Google Glass in healthcare, but overseas in Spain, some surgeons have put the “augmented reality” technology to the test. read more …read more Source: Surgeons in Spain first to put Google Glass to the test