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Trends In The Adoption Of Health Information Technology
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Source: Chris Fleming, Health Affairs Blog Content: “In 2011 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services began offering incentives to providers who demonstrated “meaningful use” of electronic health records (EHRs). With this program well underway, how well is health information technology implementation progressing? What are the differences in adoption rates among health care providers?
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Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - April 25, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Adoption Health Information Technology Source Type: news
Most Physicians Were Eligible For Federal Incentives In 2011, But Few Had EHR Systems That Met Meaningful-Use CriteriaEmail this article to a colleague.
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Source: Hsiao C-J et al, Health Affairs, 2012 Content: As more physicians adopt electronic health record systems in their practices, policy interest is focusing on whether physicians are ready to meet the federal “meaningful use” criteria—a vital threshold to qualify for financial incentives. In our analysis of a 2011 nationally representative survey of office-based physicians, [...]
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - April 25, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: Bibliography Journal Article Science Information Technology Meaningful Use Physicians Source Type: news
Small, Nonteaching, And Rural Hospitals Continue To Be Slow In Adopting Electronic Health Record SystemsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Source: DesRoches CM et al, Health Affairs, 2012 Content: To achieve the goal of comprehensive health information record keeping and exchange among providers and patients, hospitals must have functioning electronic health record systems that contain patient demographics, care histories, lab results, and more. Using national survey data on US hospitals from 2011, the year federal [...]
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - April 25, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: Bibliography Journal Article Science Adoption Hospitals Information Technology Source Type: news
AIM: Decision support seems to help, but more outcomes data neededEmail this article to a colleague.
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Both commercially and locally developed clinical decision support systems (CDSS) are effective at improving healthcare process measures across diverse settings, but evidence for clinical, economic, workload and efficiency outcomes remains sparse, according to an Annals of Internal Medicine article published online April 23.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - April 25, 2012 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
Physicians In Nonprimary Care And Small Practices And Those Age 55 And Older Lag In Adopting Electronic Health Record SystemsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Source: Decker SL et al, Health Affairs, 2012 Content: By 2011 more than half of all office-based physicians were using electronic health record systems, but only about one-third of those physicians had systems with basic features such as the abilities to record information on patient demographics, view laboratory and imaging results, maintain problem lists, compile [...]
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - April 25, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: Bibliography Journal Article Science Adoption Information Technology Physicians Source Type: news
Major academic health system selects iSirona to provide device connectivityEmail this article to a colleague.
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iSirona(R), a provider of simplified solutions for medical device integration, today announced that Duke University Health System (DUHS), ranked the #9 hospital in the nation by U.S. News & World Report, has signed an agreement to implement iSirona's device connectivity solution. Duke University Health System will leverage iSirona's technology to deliver patient data from medical devices to the EMR.
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Source: Healthcare IT News Press Releases - April 25, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Industry News Release Tags: Duke University Florida Industry News iSirona PANAMA CITY simplified solutions Source Type: news
Indian River Medical Center chooses RelayHealth for HIEEmail this article to a colleague.
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Indian River Medical Center (IRMC), a 335-bed not-for-profit hospital on Florida’s east coast, has chosen RelayHealth for secure enterprise health information exchange (HIE) between the facility and its employed and affiliated physicians, and to provide area citizens a connected and actionable personal health record (PHR).
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Source: Healthcare IT News Press Releases - April 25, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Industry News Release Tags: Atlanta east coast Florida Indian River Medical Center Industry News IRMC William Neil Source Type: news
"The global ultrasound systems market to be worth almost $11.2bn by 2022" says Visiongain reportEmail this article to a colleague.
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The market will be driven primarily by the emerging BRIC economies. China and India will see the most significant growth over the forecast period. The BRIC economies will be driven by ever improving infrastructure and increased expenditure on healthcare by the respective governments.
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Source: Healthcare IT News Press Releases - April 25, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Industry News Release Tags: India Industry News London Ultrasound Source Type: news
BodyMedia taps Withings to integrate weight dataEmail this article to a colleague.
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Last week, just a few days before connected fitness device maker Fitbit announced the commercial launch of its WiFi-enabled Aria scale, BodyMedia and Withings partnered up to integrate weight data from Withings’ WiFi scale into BodyMedia user’s online dashboards and apps. BodyMedia offers its own suite of connected fitness devices, but has not developed its [...]
Source: mobihealthnews - April 25, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Dolan Tags: Uncategorized BodyMedia connected fitness trackers connected weight scale Fitbit Fitbit Aria scale mobile health apps RunKeeper Health Graph WiFi weight scale Withings Source Type: news
U.S. telemedicine efforts lackingEmail this article to a colleague.
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Source: Marla Durben Hirsch, FierceHealthIT Content: “Patient outcomes would improve–and at a much lower cost–if only the United States would embrace telemedicine, says Vijay Govindarajan, Professor of International Business at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.
Govindarajan, writing in a recent Harvard Business Review blog post, points to a recent study of telemedicine at [...]
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - April 25, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Benefits Costs Telemedicine Source Type: news
Quality Systems acquires Matrix Management SolutionsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Quality Systems, Inc. announced Wednesday its acquisition of North Canton, Ohio-based Matrix Management Solutions, a deal officials say will bolster the growth of its NextGen Practice Solutions technology.
Matrix Management Solutions is a value-added reseller for NextGen Healthcare, a subsidiary of Quality Systems. It has provided revenue cycle management (RCM) services, healthcare IT and support for NextGen technology to its clients since 1998.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - April 25, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Mike Miliard Tags: Online Only Dell Irvine Matrix Management Solutions Mike Miliard NextGen Healthcare NextGen Practice Solutions Ohio Practice Management Partners Quality Systems Inc. Physician Practices & Ambulatory Care Vendors Financial/Reven Source Type: news
Circ: EHR helps VA control patients’ hypertensionEmail this article to a colleague.
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Blood pressure control rates in hypertensive patients treated at Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities improved from 43 percent to 76 percent between 2000 and 2010, according to a study published online April 19 in Circulation. The authors credited the use of EHRs for the improvement in treatment and control of hypertension.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - April 25, 2012 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
Illumina launches long-awaited MyGenome iPad appEmail this article to a colleague.
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In the fall of 2009 at the first Consumer Genetics Show in Boston, whole genome sequencing company Illumina’s CEO Jay Flatley announced plans to develop an iPhone app, called MyGenome, that would give users access to their own fully sequenced genome.
“Ultimately, we think this data needs to be mobile-connected and probably in the cloud,” Flatley [...]
Source: mobihealthnews - April 25, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Dolan Tags: Uncategorized consumer genomics show consumer health apps genomics iPhone app Illumina MyGenome iPad app iPad health apps iPad medical health Source Type: news
2 Medicaid Data Breaches, 1 Weak Link: EmployeesEmail this article to a colleague.
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Source: Ken Terry, InformationWeek Content: “For the second time in less than a month, there has been a major data security breach at a state Medicaid agency. The South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (SCDHHS) discovered on April 10 that an employee of the state’s Medicaid program had transferred personal information of 228,435 [...]
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - April 25, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Confidentiality Security Source Type: news
Docs willing, but not ready, to collect MU incentives in 2011Email this article to a colleague.
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There was a readiness gap between what physicians thought they could do and what they were eligible to do to collect meaningful use incentives last year, a new study finds.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - April 25, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Diana Manos Tags: Online Only Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Chun-Ju Hsiao Industry News Meaningful Use Medicare National Center Washington Hospitals & IDNs Physician Practices Ambulatory Care Payers Electronic Health Records Vendo Source Type: news
Hawaii practices retool for patient-centered modelEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Hawaii Island Beacon Community is spearheading a practice redesign program for up to 30 independent primary care physician practices into patient-centered medical homes (PCMH).
Practice transition to the medical home model is tied to new strategies for healthcare reimbursements.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - April 25, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Mary Mosquera Tags: Online Only Hawaii Hawaii Island Beacon Community Honolulu Mary Mosquera Meaningful Use North Carolina The Beacon Physician Practices & Ambulatory Care Electronic Health Records Health Information Exchange (HIE) Quality and Safet Source Type: news
Effect of a Text Messaging Intervention on Influenza Vaccination in an Urban, Low-Income Pediatric and Adolescent Population A Randomized Controlled TrialEmail this article to a colleague.
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Source: Stockwell MS et al, JAMA, 307(16) Content: Context
Influenza infection results in substantial costs, morbidity, and mortality. Vaccination against influenza is particularly important in children and adolescents who are a significant source of transmission to other high-risk populations, yet pediatric and adolescent vaccine coverage remains low. Traditional vaccine reminders have had a limited effect [...]
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - April 25, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: Bibliography Journal Article Science Adolescents Children mHealth SMS Urban Vaccine Source Type: news
Striiv adds wireless for competitions, heads to Best BuyEmail this article to a colleague.
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This morning smart pedometer maker Striiv announced an updated feature set for its activity tracking device, which now enables users to setup challenges by pairing devices at close range over a short range wireless connection. Striiv also announced that its device, which has been available online and through the Home Shopping Network, is heading to [...]
Source: mobihealthnews - April 25, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Dolan Tags: Uncategorized Best Buy mobile health connected fitness devices Striiv wireless connected fitness devices Source Type: news
Text Messaging Program May Increase Flu Vaccination RateEmail this article to a colleague.
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Source: Larry Hand, Medscape Today Content: “Using a text messaging intervention system to educate and remind parents about influenza vaccination increased the rate of child and adolescent vaccinations in a low-income urban population, according to an article published April 25 in JAMA.
Melissa S. Stockwell, MD, MPH, from Columbia University, New York, and colleagues analyzed results [...]
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - April 25, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News mHealth SMS Vaccine Source Type: news
Merger & acquisition market healthy across healthcare in Q1Email this article to a colleague.
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Merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the healthcare industry gained during the first quarter of 2012 over the prior and year-ago quarters, although the technology segment saw mixed results.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - April 25, 2012 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
CMS proposes small pay increase for acute care hospitalsEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) expects operating payments to acute are hospitals to increase by about 0.9 percent, or $175 million, in 2013, according to a proposed rule.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - April 25, 2012 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
KPMG: EHR rollouts are full steam ahead with varying confidenceEmail this article to a colleague.
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Source: Jeff Byers, HealthImaging Content: “Hospital and health system business administrators are no strangers to deadlines. According to a poll conducted by U.S. audit, tax and advisory services firm KPMG, various levels of doubt are being felt across the healthcare community concerning its capability to meet the new EHR standards.
Forty-eight percent of hospital and health [...]
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - April 25, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Implementation Standards Source Type: news
FDA green-lights Toshiba’s dose-reduction technologyEmail this article to a colleague.
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The FDA has cleared Toshiba America Medical Systems’ Adaptive Iterative Dose Reduction 3D dose-reduction technology.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - April 25, 2012 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
MaaS360 mobile device management chosen by NHSEmail this article to a colleague.
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Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation chose MaaS360 due to speed, simplicity and ease
Source: Hospital IT Europe - April 25, 2012 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Quality Systems bolsters revenue cycle mgmt line with Matrix buyEmail this article to a colleague.
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Quality Systems of Irvine, Calif., has acquired Matrix Management Solutions, to support the growth of its NextGen Practice Solutions offering.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - April 25, 2012 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
Healthcare industry group builds cybersecurity threat centerEmail this article to a colleague.
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Looking to address growing cybersecurity threats in the healthcare industry the Health Information Trust Alliance today said it has established a centralized Cybersecurity Incident Response and Coordination Center where organizations can report incidents and get help remediating electronic medical security problems.
Source: Computerworld Health Care News - April 25, 2012 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Q1 sales for Philips Healthcare jump 9%Email this article to a colleague.
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When Royal Philips Electronics announced its 2012 first quarter earnings, its Philips Healthcare unit showed a sales growth of 9 percent over the 2011 first quarter to EUR2.21 billion ($2.91 billion U.S.).
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - April 24, 2012 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
Learn the Secret to Kaiser Permanente's Sustainable Mobile StrategyEmail this article to a colleague.
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Healthcare CIOs know mobile is important to their customers. Phil Fasano, CIO of Kaiser Permanente, took a slow-but-steady mobile approach and is seeing big results since its new site and apps launched. Insider (registration required)
Source: Computerworld Health Care News - April 24, 2012 Category: Information Technology Tags: IDG Insider Source Type: news
IT seen as critical to population healthEmail this article to a colleague.
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Managing population health requires new skill sets, new infrastructures and automation, according to new research from the Institute for Health Technology Transformation (iHT2).
The findings are from the Automating Population Health Research Project, which seeks to educate the healthcare industry on how best to apply technology in meeting the challenges of population health management.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - April 24, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only Industry News information technology Meaningful Use New York Paul Grundy Provider Richard Hodach Waco Hoover Data Warehousing Physician Practices & Ambulatory Care Electronic Health Records Health Information Exchan Source Type: news
3 hot buttons that can trigger an OCR auditEmail this article to a colleague.
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This past November, the healthcare industry got its first taste of the new spot-check audits performed by the Office of Civil Rights to enforce HIPAA compliance efforts. Now, in the midst of the OCR pilot program, many providers are wondering if they'll be among the unlucky few to undergo an OCR audit.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - April 24, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Michelle McNickle Tags: Online Only Apgar & Associates Chris Apgar Mahmood Sher-Jan Michelle McNickle OCR PHOENIX Tennessee Privacy and Security Source Type: news
A National ICU Telemedicine Survey: Validation and ResultsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Source: Lilly CM et al, Chest, 2012 Content: BACKGROUND:
A recent intensive care unit (ICU) telemedicine research consensus conference identified the need for reliable methods of measuring structural features and processes of critical care delivery in the domains of organizational context, characteristics of ICU teams, ICUs, hospitals, and of the communities supported by an ICU.
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The [...]
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - April 24, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: Bibliography Journal Article Science Tele-ICU Telemedicine Source Type: news
CMS rule targets Medicare fraud as GAO says more could be doneEmail this article to a colleague.
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Even as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a final rule Tuesday aimed at preventing Medicare fraud and saving taxpayers nearly $1.6 billion over 10 years, the GAO came out with a report urging CMS to do more.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - April 24, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only Medicare & Medicaid Services Washington Claims Processing Hospitals IDNs Physician Practices Ambulatory Care Payers Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Policy and Legislation Privacy and Security Quality and Safety Source Type: news
CMS rule targets Medicare fraud, should save $1.6BEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a final rule Tuesday aimed at preventing Medicare fraud. CMS estimates the rule will help save taxpayers nearly $1.6 billion over 10 years.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - April 24, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only Medicare & Medicaid Services Washington Claims Processing Hospitals IDNs Physician Practices Ambulatory Care Payers Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Policy and Legislation Privacy and Security Quality and Safety Source Type: news
Cloud-based, pay-as-you-go storage launchedEmail this article to a colleague.
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Debriefing Solutions launches cloud-based, pay-as-you-go storage resource management solution
Source: Hospital IT Europe - April 24, 2012 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Vidyo, Royal Philips collaborate on telehealthEmail this article to a colleague.
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Royal Philips Electronics and Vidyo are collaborating to offer health system providers an approach for extending telehealth tools across the enterprise.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - April 24, 2012 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
KPMG: EHR rollouts are full steam ahead with varying confidenceEmail this article to a colleague.
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Hospital and health system business administrators are no strangers to deadlines. According to a poll conducted by U.S. audit, tax and advisory services firm KPMG, various levels of doubt are being felt across the healthcare community concerning its capability to meet the new EHR standards.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - April 24, 2012 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
Arkansas provider unearths breach affecting 7K rad patientsEmail this article to a colleague.
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The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences has discovered a breach of patient information, which resulted when a document sent to an individual outside of UAMS for analysis of billing charges was not properly de-identified.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - April 24, 2012 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
EU-Projekt: Technologien für Menschen mit demenziellen ErkrankungenEmail this article to a colleague.
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Source: e-Health-com News Content: “Am 20.04. fand das erste Treffen der Projekt-Partnerorganisationen des von der EU gefördeten Projektes SPES (Support Patients through E-Sercice Solutions), in Wien statt. Dabei wurden Erfahrungen und Ideen zur Telemedizin-Technologie für ältere Menschen sowie für Menschen mit Behinderungen oder chronisch Kranken zur Steigerung ihrer Lebensqualität im Alltag vorgestellt. Die Vertreterin Wiens, [...]
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - April 24, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Ambient-Assisted-Living Dementia Health Information Technology Telemedicine Source Type: news
Some thoughts on ehealth progressEmail this article to a colleague.
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Source: Charles Wright, eHealthCentral Content: “Every now and again the constant parade of stuff that comes to me by email, Twitter, RSS feeds and random browsing makes me wonder whether I really want some form of electronic traffic cop to walk into the middle of that roadway we call “progress”, blow a whistle and stop [...]
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - April 24, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Applications mHealth Source Type: news
Meaningful use still a challenge despite strides, say hospitalsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Most hospitals and health systems report being well along in completing electronic health record implementation, but many still have doubts about their ability to meet new EHR standards, according to a new poll from KPMG.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - April 24, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Mike Miliard Tags: Online Only Industry News Meaningful Use Mike Miliard New York Hospitals & IDNs Electronic Health Records Vendors Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Health Information Exchange (HIE) ICD-10 Policy and Legislation Privacy and Se Source Type: news
Philips and Vidyo collaborate for enterprise-wide deployment of next-generation telehealth servicesEmail this article to a colleague.
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Royal Philips Electronics and Vidyo are collaborating to offer health system providers an approach for extending telehealth solutions across the enterprise to improve patient care and clinician workflow while also reducing costs. Enterprise-wide deployment of these next-generation telehealth services will require scalable and flexible advanced video technology to adapt to the full range of clinical workstations and mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets and laptops.
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Source: Healthcare IT News Press Releases - April 24, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Industry News Release Tags: Andover Enterprise Patient Informatics Solutions Hackensack Industry News Massachusetts Mike Mancuso mobile devices New Jersey Patient Monitoring Systems Philips Royal Philips Electronics Smartphones Vidyo Inc. Source Type: news
White House CTO to participate in live twitter chat as part of big data weekEmail this article to a colleague.
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Todd Park (@todd-park), United States Chief Technology Officer for the White House, will be participating in a LIVE Twitter chat as part of Big Data Week, a series of community-led events and hackathons relating to Big Data. The LIVE Twitter chat, taking place on Tuesday, April 24 at 2:00 p.m. ET, provides the big data community with an opportunity to ask Todd Park questions about the White House's new Big Data Research and Development Initiative and specifically its efforts around big data in the health sector.
WHO: Todd Park, U.S. Chief Technology Officer
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Source: Healthcare IT News Press Releases - April 24, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Industry News Release Tags: DataSift Inc. Human Services Industry News New York Todd Park Twitter United States White House World Health Organization Source Type: news
NextGate launches MatchMetrix v8 and the NextGate Registries for healthcare solution for accurate identity matching and HIEEmail this article to a colleague.
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NextGare has released MatchMetrix® v8 and the NextGate Registries for Healthcare: the technology platform and integrated solution that resolve identity matching uncertainties to enable accurate exchange of healthcare information in support of the industry’s patient-centric, meaningful use, and interoperable initiatives.
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Source: Healthcare IT News Press Releases - April 24, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Industry News Release Tags: ARCADIA California Industry News Source Type: news
WellPoint taps Watson, Indiana cancer center to develop new ITEmail this article to a colleague.
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Health insurer WellPoint is working with Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center to develop new diagnosis and treatment solutions. Wellpoint will look to the cancer center to provide clinical expertise to help shape its new products.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - April 24, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only George W. Sledge IBM Indiana Indiana University INDIANAPOLIS IU Patrick J. Loehrer Speech Recognition University Melvin WellPoint Hospitals & IDNs Physician Practices Ambulatory Care Payers Quality and Safety Source Type: news
Group calls for e-health records keepingEmail this article to a colleague.
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Source: Wale Adepoju, The Nation Content: “Health Information Managers Association of Nigeria (HIMAN) has called for the implementation of electronic health (e-health) record keeping to enhance quality health care.
According to its President, Mr Wole Ajayi, electronic health record gives physicians, patients and other health care providers’ access to patient’s medical record facilities.”
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Wale Adepoju, The Nation, [...]
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - April 24, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Implementation Source Type: news
As More Docs Use Digital Records, So Will ConsumersEmail this article to a colleague.
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Source: Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare Content: “With billions of dollars of HITECH Act incentives are being waved in front of healthcare providers for the meaningful use of health IT, you shouldn’t be surprised to learn that the percentage of healthcare providers using digital records has doubled over the last two years. Undoubtedly, that’s impressive [...]
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - April 24, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Consumer phr Physicians Source Type: news
Study: Imaging insurance denials on the riseEmail this article to a colleague.
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Denials to patients seeking critical imaging services by their insurance providers have doubled over the last four years, according to internal case management data released by the Patient Advocate Foundation (PAF). Some 90 percent of reversed denials for imaging services were covered by those health plans.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - April 24, 2012 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
Survey: 45 percent of doctors have iPadsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Source: Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews Content: “A recent survey of 971 physicians found that about 74 percent already own or plan to buy an iPad in the next six months. The survey, called the April 2012 Joint Survey of Physician Digital Behavior, was conducted by virtual event platform provider ON24 and MedData Group.
Of the physicians surveyed, [...]
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - April 24, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News mHealth Physicians smartphone tablet PC Source Type: news
Li'l Rhody big on health ITEmail this article to a colleague.
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Rhode Island is the smallest state in the U.S., measuring just 48 miles north to south and 37 miles east to west. But it packs a big punch – especially when it comes to health IT.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - April 24, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Diana Manos Tags: Online Only Aquidneck Medical Associates Betty Vohr Congress e-prescribing Election 2012 Gary Christensen Industry News Infants Hospital Jean Sanders Massachusetts Meaningful Use Medicare Mitt Romney Nancy Roberts Newport N Source Type: news
KLAS: ICD-10 Concerns Push Providers to Consider CAC SolutionsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Source: Kate Gamble, HealthSystemCIO Content: “With concerns about readiness to meet the ICD-10 deadline still top of mind, nearly half of providers are planning to purchase an inpatient computer-assisted coding (CAC) solution within the next two years, according to a new KLAS report — Computer-Assisted Coding: A Glimpse at the Future of HIM Technology.
The report [...]
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - April 24, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Coding ICD-10 Source Type: news
