Tag: patient engagement
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Medical ontology helps automate image-retrieval system
How do you train a computer to effectively retrieve medical images? Researchers at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH claim some success as part of an effort to build a large-scale… read more …read more Source: Medical ontology helps automate image-retrieval system
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Premier Hires HCA Supply Chain CIO
The Premier healthcare alliance has hired Leigh Anderson as its new Informatics & Technology Services (ITS) Chief Operating Officer. Most recently Anderson served as Information Technology & Services CIO for the Hospital Corporation of America's supply chain division and as CIO at HealthTrust, a group purchasing organization for hospitals. The Premier healthcare alliance has hired…
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Twitter for mobile feasible for capturing real-time dietary intake, behavior
Twitter combined with mobile devices are a more effective method for capturing real-time food consumption and diet-related behavior to identify relationships between dietary and behavioral factors… read more …read more Source: Twitter for mobile feasible for capturing real-time dietary intake, behavior
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CHIME execs: IT-as-a-service could save $11 billion
Healthcare providers could reduce costs by nine percent–$11 billion–over the next three years through the adoption of IT-as-a-service models, according to a report by the public-private partnership… read more …read more Source: CHIME execs: IT-as-a-service could save $11 billion
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The Path to Healthcare Interoperability Standards
I’ve been thinking a lot about the issues associated with healthcare interoperability. One of the biggest excuses/problems out there is the idea of interoperability standards. Healthcare certainly has plenty of interoperability standards, but adoption and implementation of the actual standards has been the major issue. I do think that meaningful use and EHR certification is…
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Health IT App Increases Mobility
At HIMSS 13, Will Morris, MD, associate chief medical information officer at Cleveland Clinic, unveiled the organization’s new patient care app that is a hea… Video Rating: 5 / 5
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HCS INTERACTANT Receives ONC HIT Certification
Health Care Software has announced today that INTERACTANT v6.9 is compliant with the ONC 2011 Edition criteria and was certified as an EHR Module on June 3, 2013, by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology. The ONC 2011 Edition criteria support the Stage 1 Meaningful Use measures required to qualify eligible providers and hospitals…
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Data and Information Management in a Pioneer ACO Environment: a ThedaCare Perspective
ThedaCare’s Brian Veara drills down to the rubber-meets-the-road issues when it comes to data and information management in a process-advanced organization committed to rapid clinical transformation. First lesson learned: the practical challenges are many. At the five-hospital ThedaCare integrated health system based in Appleton, Wis., senior executives, and quality, clinician and IT leaders have been…
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Managed Care Plans: Critical Partners in the Fight Against Fraud, Waste, and Abuse in Medicaid
The Managed Care Plan Compliance material encourages providers and stakeholders in the Medicaid community to become actively involved in preventing, detectin… Video Rating: 0 / 5 This 30 second TV Public Service Announcement (PSA), available in English and Spanish, is part of the Connecting Kids to Coverage National Campaign. The conc…