Tag: patient engagement
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Premier and IBM partnership
Learn more about Premier’s partnership with IBM and how the two are working together to improve patient care.
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The Rapidly Evolving World of Mobile Health, Apps & Devices for Physicians
Felasfa Wodajo, M.D.– Senior & mHealth Editor of iMedicalApps.com; Bone and Soft Tissue Tumor Surgeon. Video Rating: 0 / 5
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EMR Enablement
The Path to Meaningful Use Learn how Iron Mountain’s EMR Enablement Solution can accelerate your transition to Electronic Medical Records.
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HHS health IT safety plan hopefully is a work in progress
I enjoyed reading The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' 50-page final health IT safety plan, released last week, which aims to eliminate medical errors related to technology and to better protect patients. The plan is comprehensive and impressive. Still, I'm concerned that the final plan appears to leave vendors off easy at the…
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EHRs Key to Transcriptionists’ New Career Paths, Survey Finds
Eighty-seven percent of medical transcriptionists indicated that in order to transition to documentation roles in electronic health records (EHRs), new skills and knowledge gaps need to be identified, according to a survey released today by the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) and the Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity (AHDI). Eighty-seven percent of medical transcriptionists…
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Health Care Apps Streamline Medical Information
Visit us for more info at http://bit.ly/y1P3JB. Health care apps are a vital part of health information technology. These e-Health tools help ensure that imp… Your best and cheapest personal trainer may be your tablet or smartphone. On this week’s IDG App Review we’ll take a look at some of the best health and fitn……
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Not all is sunny in Robert Wood Johnson report on health information technology
A lot has changed since 2006, when the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation published their inagural report on Health Information Technology in the United States: The Information Base for Progress. The… read more Source: Not all is sunny in Robert Wood Johnson report on health information technology
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Beyond Liberating Data, HHS CTO Seeks to Free Up its People
Bryan Sivak, chief technology officer at the Department of Health & Human Services, often gives talks about his office’s efforts to make sharing data with the public the default setting at HHS. And he can point to successes in making data sets such has hospital-pricing information available. But his goals as “entrepreneur in residence” also…
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HIE Orgs. Concerned Over Sustainability, Survey Reports
While health information exchanges (HIEs) continue to grow in number, those who are participating say sustainability remains an issue, according to the results of a new survey that appears in the latest issue of the healthcare policy journal Health Affairs. While health information exchanges (HIEs) continue to grow in number, those who are participating say…
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Gamification breaks down complicated benefits information
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota is following the gamification trend, using videos, quizzes and games to explain complicated benefits information to members. read more Source: Gamification breaks down complicated benefits information