Tag: patient engagement
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Building Unity Farm – A Day in June
And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days;Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear laysJAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Unity Farm is at the peak of growth now, fueled by warm days, cool nights, and Spring rains. The Bluebird…
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Readers Write: EMR Installed and Meaningful Attested — Now What?
EMR Installed and Meaningful Attested — Now What? By Don Sonck If it’s the spring of an odd-numbered year, then I know it’s time for me to pay a visit to my primary care physician for a biennial physical examination. So a couple of weeks ago, off I went! As my doctor and I reviewed…
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Health Information Exchange Expands in Ohio
HealthBridge, a Cincinnati-based healthcare information exchange (HIE) organization and the Ohio Health Information Partnership have announced the launch of connectivity between the two organizations through the use of Direct, an emerging national standard for securely exchanging health information among healthcare providers. HealthBridge, a Cincinnati-based healthcare information exchange (HIE) organization and the Ohio Health Information Partnership…
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Mental health Mood Rhythm app wins $100,000 prize
Developers of Mood Rhythm, a mobile application to help patients with bipolar disorder, won the $100,000 top prize in the Heritage Open mHealth Challenge for software developers. …read more Source: Mental health Mood Rhythm app wins $100,000 prize
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Commercial Payors Lag Behind Medicare in Offering ACOs Shared Savings Programs
Commercial payors aren’t offering as many of the upside-only payment structures that are most popular among early accountable care organizations (ACOs), according to an analysis by the Charlotte, N.C.-based Premier healthcare alliance of 85 payor arrangements. Commercial payors aren’t offering as many of the upside-only payment structures that are most popular among early accountable care…
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Is The Cloud The Best EHR Model For Small Practices?
Over the last few years, the use of EMRs in medical practices has grown dramatically, with over 50 percent of office-based physicians now using such systems. However, physicians still face major barriers in adopting EMRs, including costs, usability issues and impacts on doctor productivity. One way of reducing the complexity of EMR installations — doing…
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Virginia Health System Acknowledges Data Breach
Bon Secours Hampton Roads Health System, a seven-hospital system based in Suffolk, Va., has announced that they are proactively contacting former patients via letters on behalf of Bon Secours Mary Immaculate Hospital to inform them of an electronic medical records security breach. Bon Secours Hampton Roads Health System, a seven-hospital system based in Suffolk, Va.,…
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Oschner and Intermountain: Access to big data isn’t enough
Two leaders from large healthcare systems agreed yesterday at the Big Data and Healthcare Analytics Forum in Washington, D.C., that they have the tools in place to harness lots of data. But the challenge, they said, is to better understand it and use what they learn to improve care and outcomes. read more …read more…
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Are docs really struggling to meet Meaningful Use?
Physicians have had difficulty meeting Meaningful Use criteria for electronic health records, according to research published this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The research, based on a survey of 1,820 primary care physicians and office-based specialists conducted between late 2011 and early 2012, determined that less than 10 percent of physicians had met…
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Panel: Patient engagement technology a must for ACO success
Technology that can engage patients so they can contribute to their own care will be crucial to the success of new payment models such as accountable care organizations, representatives from several healthcare organizations said during a panel discussion at the fourth annual Health Datapalooza conference in Washington, D.C. on Monday. read more …read more Source:…