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  • Viewpoints: Controlling costs; Health law’s guarantee of coverage; ACO liability

    Viewpoints: Controlling costs; Health law’s guarantee of coverage; ACO liability

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    In the impassioned debates over healthcare, one fact is often lost-;Americans pay more but get less for their health care than residents of other high-income countries. I believe we can change that. We can improve the quality of care and reduce our expenses, saving a trillion dollars or more a year, by making our health…

  • 1st SEMA hackathon

    1st SEMA hackathon

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    This video shows an overview of events at the first SEMA hackathon, held on 12 and 13 May 2012 at the innovation space of COSTECH in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania … Video Rating: 0 / 5

  • Meaningful Use

    Meaningful Use

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    This is the first in a series of four videos created to provide high-level information on Meaningful Use and Healthcare IT. Other videos in the series includ… Video Rating: 5 / 5 Video Rating: 0 / 5

  • Mostashari: SNOMED critical to ICD-10

    Mostashari: SNOMED critical to ICD-10

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    SNOMED was so important to healthcare's switch from ICD-9 to ICD-10 medical coding, ONC Chief Farzad Mostashari, MD says, that he was willing to support the one-year delay to achieve the necessary crosswalks. This system of nomenclature can lay the groundwork and foundation for much better, more granular clinical documentation, he said. read more Source:…

  • Medicare & You: Traveling Abroad

    Medicare & You: Traveling Abroad

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    Medicare wants you to stay healthy if you’re travelling outside the U.S. this summer. Learn about Medicare coverage when traveling abroad. Video Rating: 5 / 5

  • Medicaid expansion: Second thoughts and changes of heart?

    Medicaid expansion: Second thoughts and changes of heart?

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    PBS NewsHour reports on some states with GOP governors who opposed the health law but want to pursue the Medicaid expansion. In one such state, Arizona, the Republican governor signed expansion legislation after a bruising fight with conservatives in the legislature. But, in Maine, the governor vetoed such a measure for the second time while…

  • Addressing Big Data Challenges in Genomics and Personalized Healthcare

    Addressing Big Data Challenges in Genomics and Personalized Healthcare

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    Prix Galien Forum 2012 – Panel discussion hosted by Oracle Health Sciences with UPMC, Pfizer, Broad Institute of MIT and Mayo Clinic. Video Rating: 5 / 5

  • EHR and HIT News for July 18th

    EHR and HIT News for July 18th

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    Today’s EHR and HIT news includes a customer acquisition updates from Merge Healthcare as well as news from Hyland Software on how their OnBase product has helped one customer recover more than $300 million by reducing net accounts receivable days.   St. Mary’s Healthcare System Selects iConnect Access and iConnect Enterprise Archive Merge Healthcare  has…

  • Mostashari: We need to look at EHR productivity data carefully

    Mostashari: We need to look at EHR productivity data carefully

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    Implementing technology should be a cost of doing business for healthcare providers, as it is in other professions, according to National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari. In a frank interview with AAFP News Now, Mostashari also stated that he expected physician dissatisfaction with electronic health records to rise as implementation goes beyond the early…

  • Facebook Initiative Boosts Organ Donor Registration Significantly

    Facebook Initiative Boosts Organ Donor Registration Significantly

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    An initiative on Facebook single-handily led to a 21-fold increase of people who registered themselves as an organ donor in a single day, researchers at Johns Hopkins University recently discovered. The results of the study indicate that social media may be the perfect way to battle the static number of donors in the country. An…