Tag: opportunity
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The Electronic Health Record Opportunity
Learn about ONC’s Regional Extension Centers and how they can help health care providers make the change to EHRs. Health care providers might appreciate the … Video Rating: 4 / 5 The National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Dr. Farzad Mostashari, talks about the power of Electronic Health Records (EHR) and how they can ……
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CDS can make best-practices guidelines more accessible
Electronic health records offer the opportunity to better integrate clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) at the point of care, but the technology and physician practice must evolve, according to a paper published at BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making . read more
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What Will We Find at TEDMED 2013?
Despite my vow to travel less after the back to back HIMSS-SXSW journey, next week I’ll be spending a week in DC at the famous TEDMED conference. I was invited to attend TEDMED as a guest of Xerox and I honestly couldn’t pass up the opportunity to be part of what I hear is a…
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Commencement at Columbia University
I recently spoke at Columbia University to the graduates of their healthcare IT certificate program. I used these slides. I started with an overview of my top 10 buzzwords for 2013 describing a strategy for each of them: Secure and Compliant – BIDMC has a multi-million dollar security enhancement program with 14 work streams Hosted…
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The Many Roadblocks of Creating an ACO
Becoming an accountable care organization (ACO) can leave an organization in a much better place clinically and financially, and overall in-tune with innovative models of reimbursement. Yet while successfully mining this opportunity is a tremendous achievement, the path of becoming an ACO and changing the organizational structure is fraught with numerous challenges that can derail…
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It’s Time for a National Patient Identifier
Here’s a guest post from Meg Aranow, Principal at Aranow Consulting LLC. Some of us remember that the early HIPAA discussions included the concept of a national patient identifier. As legislators and administrators attempted to find the right balance between the risks and rewards of automation, ultimately the patient identifier was thought to pose…