Tag: patient engagement
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Study: Some current Medicaid enrollees may not qualify for benefits that newly enrolled will get
George Washington researchers find that key preventive services included in the health law and slated for millions who will get coverage in the law’s Medicaid expansion may not be extended to people already covered by Medicaid. From: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20130710/Study-Some-current-Medicaid-enrollees-may-not-qualify-for-benefits-that-newly-enrolled-will-get.aspx
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Mobile Health Technology Can Reach the Remotest Corners
Consider this: a mobile phone with applications to detect cancer and tuberculosis, control sugar levels for diabetics and monitor vital signs. The champions …
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The Innovator’s Challenge
I’ve written many blog posts about our efforts along the path to ICD-10 that will enhance our inpatient clinical documentation. We’re hard at work planning the improvements we think are foundational to support care coordination, compliance, and quality measurement goals. It’s very challenging to create tools which simultaneously enable rapid, accurate, and complete clinical documentation.…
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Is There a Role for EHR Simulation in Medical Training?
After creating a simulation of their Epic EHR, researchers at Oregon Health & Science University are studying the number and types of errors clinicians miss when reviewing simulated cases in the ICU. Over-sedation was the least-recognized error (16%) and only 32% of the participants recognized inappropriate antibiotic dosing. Could making simulation a regular part of…
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Quality Measures Workgroup unofficially endorses ‘innovation track’
Health IT leaders expressed interest in a voluntary “innovation track” for reporting clinical quality measurements for Meaningful Use Stage 3 at a July 1 meeting of the ONC Health IT Policy… read more Source: Quality Measures Workgroup unofficially endorses 'innovation track'
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Mobile Technology: Beyond Bedside Meds Administration at Colorado’s Parkview
Through the mobile care orchestration platform, one medical center has improved patient safety, care team awareness, and coordination across its clinical departments In 2007, Pueblo, Colo.-based Parkview Medical Center started using bedside medication administration technology from IntelliDOT Corporation, a vendor in San Diego that specialized in healthcare workflow management solutions. In 2009, IntelliDOT became Patient…
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Bon Secours Ambulatory Clinics Achieve Stage 7 Recognition
Thirty-one Va.-based Bon Secours Health Systems ambulatory clinics have been recognized by the Chicago-based Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) for reaching HIMSS Analytics Stage 7, the highest level on the Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model, the model used to track EMR progress at hospitals and health systems. Thirty-one Va.-based Bon Secours Health Systems…
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Mobile Health Solutions from AT&T
Learn about AT&T’s mHealth solutions including mobile technologies and telehealth solutions to improve quality of healthcare. Find out more about AT&T’s ForH… Video Rating: 5 / 5
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Healthcare Data Analytics: Benefits According to Dr. Scott Conard
Dr. Scott Conard of ACAP Health Consulting discusses the benefits of healthcare data analytics (http://www.med-view.net/). Med-Vision and Med-View provide th… In this webinar held June 6, 2013, Dennis Giokas and Alex Mair of Canada Health Infoway talk about the opportunities, potential value, enablers and challenge…