Tag: patient engagement
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Security specialist: Genomic data requires strong protections
Strong security protections will be required for genomic data as it's increasingly used to provide personalized medicine, says security specialist Dixie Baker, senior partner at consultancy… read more …read more Source: http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/security-specialist-genomic-data-requires-strong-protections/2013-05-31?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss
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Providers: Test your EHR backup plan frequently
Physicians need to ensure that they are properly backing up the data in their electronic health record systems, and also know how to restore that data. read more …read more Source: Providers: Test your EHR backup plan frequently
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Patient breach lawsuits pose new arguments about privacy expectations
Lawsuits from healthcare data breaches are growing more sophisticated as lawyers change tactics beyond trying to show that exposure of patients' personal information led to financial harm. An increasing number now are being filed on behalf of classes of plaintiffs, rather than individuals. read more …read more Source: http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/patient-breach-lawsuits-pose-new-arguments-about-privacy-expectations/2013-05-31?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss
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EHR adoption up but doc satisfaction lags
More physicians than ever are using electronic health record systems, but they're not as happy with them as they used to be, according to a new survey by Physicians Practice. read more …read more Source: EHR adoption up but doc satisfaction lags
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Idaho Health Data Exchange Launches Image Exchange with St. Luke’s Health System
The Idaho Health Data Exchange (IHDE) and St. Luke’s Health System (SLHS) announced earlier this week that they had launched the Image Exchange viewing capability offered by eHealthTechnologies. The use of Image Exchange allows IHDE-authorized physicians, hospitals and clinicians to instantly access their patients’ SLHS diagnostic-quality images from the IHDE through a secure, universal web…
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Beware: The top 4 hurdles to a successful EHR implementation
If you were a healthcare provider and all you did was read press releases, you'd be tempted to think that transitioning to a new EHR involved little more than opening the package and plugging in the contents. Naturally, things are a little more complicated than that, but many providers aren't aware of just how much…
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Increased Meaningful EHR Users Aside, Grumbling Hasn’t Subsided
We’re at the point where more than half of all doctors and other eligible providers have received Medicare or Medicaid incentive payments for adopting or meaningfully using electronic health records (EHR). And yet it seems like widespread EHR satisfaction is a pipe dream. Last week, the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) put out…
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State highlights: Calif. counties stand to lose $2.5B as state shifts Medicaid costs; Odd bedfellows push for hospital payment equity in Mass.
California counties may lose as much as $2.5 billion in state funding over the next three years for indigent health care as the state assumes responsibility under the federal Affordable Care Act, Gov. Jerry Brown said. The most populous U.S. state plans to cut $300 million this year from counties as its [Medicaid] program expands,…
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Medicaid expansion: Arizona foes look to voter referendum, brewing fight in N.H.
Meanwhile, Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown seeks to expand Medi-Cal and New Hampshire lawmakers set up a fight over the expansion. …read more Source: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20130531/Medicaid-expansion-Arizona-foes-look-to-voter-referendum-brewing-fight-in-NH.aspx
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Immigrants help Medicare stay solvent, study finds
Immigrants to the U.S. contributed $115.2 billion more to Medicare’s Hospital Trust Fund during the past decade than they withdrew, casting doubt on criticism they overburden the health plan for the elderly and disabled, according to a study by researchers from Harvard and the City University of New York. …read more Source: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20130531/Immigrants-help-Medicare-stay-solvent-study-finds.aspx