Tag: patient engagement
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Cloud could usher in $11B in savings
While 90 percent of healthcare CIOs view IT innovation as critical to success, the more surprising statistic is that fewer than one-fourth consider their existing infrastructure capable of supporting such technological advancement. That’s according to a report from MeriTalk, published Monday, examining the potential of IT-as-a-service within the healthcare realm by surveying 109 CHIME members.…
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Where states opt against Medicaid expansion, working poor likely to lose
News outlets also report the latest developments regarding the Medicaid expansion debate in Michigan and Mississippi. From: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20130626/Where-states-opt-against-Medicaid-expansion-working-poor-likely-to-lose.aspx
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Viewpoints: Exploring the bond between caretaker and patient; Missouri looks beyond expansion to reform Medicaid
This Op-Doc video explores the relationship between an immigrant caretaker and an elderly woman in the last months of her life. Joesy, a Fijian immigrant, works long hours providing live-in care for 95-year-old Haru Tsurumoto in Sonoma County, Calif. Through intimate and quiet scenes, we explore Joesy’s complex relationship with Haru. The two respect each…
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Introduction to Easy Flyer Creator (Publishing App with templates for flyer, brochures, posters)
Easy Flyer Creator is an advanced and easy to use Publishing Application that comes with a lot of built-in templates for flyers, brochures, posters, signs, c… Video Rating: 0 / 5
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Many states missing out on Medicaid money for prisoners
Only a dozen states have taken advantage of a long-standing option to stick the federal government with at least half the cost of hospitalizations and nursing home stays of state prison inmates. The other states have left tens of millions of federal dollars on the table, either because they didn’t know about a federal rule…
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Health IT firm athenahealth plans expansion
Health information technology firm athenahealth, which offers electronic health records and care coordination products, will expand and create hundreds of new jobs in Georgia and Massachusetts. Source: Health IT firm athenahealth plans expansion
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Affiliation Planning
Many healthcare organizations are discovering that accountable care reimbursed via global captitated risk contracts requires more primary care physicians and a more tightly coupled delivery network including suburban hospitals, home care, and long term care. Affiliations, mergers, and acquisitions are accelerating to meet these needs. From an IT perspective how are to respond to this…
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Partners to integrate EHRs with home-generated patient data
Boston-based Partners HealthCare has unveiled a new initiative that enables patients to generate and collect data on themselves at home and upload it into Partners' electronic health record system. read more Source: Partners to integrate EHRs with home-generated patient data
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EHR Adoption Doesn’t Automatically Impact Short-Term Costs, Study Finds
According to a recent study, appearing in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) journal, Medicare & Medicaid Research Review, the adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) does not necessarily impact healthcare costs in the short run. According to a recent study, appearing in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) journal, Medicare…
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Mobile Health
VOA’s health correspondent Linord Moudou talks to Dr. Jonathan Monda and Kirsten Gagnaire, Global Director at Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action, about mobi… Bassam Kadry, the director of technology discovery at Stanford MedicineX (http://medicinex.stanford.edu/) talks about the healthcare iron triangle and the tr…