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Bonus Features – July 2, 2023 – Nuance and Epic integrate, 5 in 6 physicians say telemedicine improves continuity of care, news from HFMA, and more
This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. News and Research HHS and the Office of Inspector General released the final rule implementing information blocking penalties, with fines of up to $1 million per violation for vendors and HIE entities. Penalties for providers h...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 2, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Revenue Cycle Management Adam Boehler Asimily Avalon Healthcare Solutions Black Book Cotiviti DAX Express Dennis E. Dahlen DexCare Double Black Imaging Doximity eClinicalWorks eCW Epic Evelyn Source Type: blogs

One family ’s disastrous experience with a growth-driven long-term care company
by “E-PATIENT” DAVE DEBRONKART Continuing THCB’s occasional series on actual experiences with the health care system. This is the first in a short series about a patient and family experience from one of America’s leading ePatients. I’ve been blogging recently about what happens in American healthcare when predatory investor-driven companies start moving into care industries because the money’s good and enforcement is lax. The first two posts were about recent articles in The New Yorker on companies that are more interested in sales and growth than caring. I now have permission ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 10, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: The Business of Health Care ePatient Dave Patient Experience Respite care Source Type: blogs

Weekly Overseas Health IT Links – 29th October, 2022.
This report presents CDC findings on telehealth use trends in 2021. It includes data from the National Health Interview Survey, a nationally representative household survey conducted throughout the year by the National Center for Health Statistics. -----https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2022-10-13/women-older-adults-more-likely-to-use-telemedicine-in-2021Who Used Telemedicine in 2021?New data shows which groups have been most likely to use a health care option popular during the pandemic.By Christopher WolfOct. 13, 2022, at 12:01 a.m.More than 1 in 3 adults used telemedicine in the past year in 2021, ac...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 29, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

I Joined Twitter to Teach
I joined Twitter to teach. In May 2016, I started tweeting “questions of the day” for my inpatient hospital medicine team at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital from @RJmdphilly. #GreenQOD (“Green” is our teaching service, and “QOD” for question of the day) was born in the days of only 140 characters per tweet (now expanded to 280), which placed a potentially daunting onus on brevity in phrasing—and answering—clinical questions. My inaugural question? “What’s the real story with beta blockers in reactive airway disease? If increase risk is real, how do you balance risk/benefit?” Rules of t...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - June 30, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective social media teaching Twitter Source Type: blogs

Feel Like I ' m Back Twenty Steps
Finally I am feeling better and my post surgery recovery seems almost complete. The signs are there because I actually felt able to bring in the empty trash barrels and recycling bins (put everything in the big barrel and wheel it down the driveway). This is the first time since early October I have felt up to that. My husband even noticed.I was all set to go to the gym this week for the first time in months but I woke up Monday with a temperature (101.5) and thought I had the flu. It wasn ' t the flu. It wasn ' t an ear infection. It was just your basic run of the mill cold. It set me back - I postponed everything from th...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - December 16, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: exercise gym knee surgery physical therapy Source Type: blogs

Helping Doctors Choose Wisely: Three Innovative Principles For Health Care Organizations
Achieving higher value, cost-conscious care that eliminates waste and optimizes quality is a crucial priority. Recent professional and policy initiatives aiming to spur individual physicians to achieve that priority include the American Board of Internal Medicine’s Choosing Wisely Campaign, the High Value Cost-Conscious Care Initiative from the American College of Physicians, and new content in the American Medical Association Code of Medical Ethics. Although professional organizations can be influential, physicians work in organizations, and evidence suggests health care organizations influence individual physician beh...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - April 30, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Jon Tilburt Tags: Costs and Spending Featured Health Professionals Hospitals Payment Policy Public Health ABIM ACOs ACP AMA Choosing Wisely delivery High-Value Care Innovation Physicians Source Type: blogs

Bright and Filled with Potential
Wensday – Entry 45: There are many people who want me to state that 2013 was my best year ever, but truthfully it was the hardest, most exhausting and stressful year I can ever remember living through. This was the year my favorite minivan was totaled and replaced with a pale imitation. This was the year I went through extensive physical therapy to treat two prolapsed disks in my neck and spine. This was the year my daughter's epilepsy worsened due to the same car accident, reaching life-threatening tonic clonic stages for the first time in her life. This was the year I spent months—MONTHS—sick with pneumonia and the...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - January 1, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Tags: Journaling Source Type: blogs

Are We Waiting For Godot?
Ten reasons I feel pessimism about our current healthcare environment (in brief): Process vs Product Computers are just machines.  I repeat, they are just tools.  Health information technology is a shell which houses knowledge and human ability.  It is nothing more .  Electronic medical records may either streamline our thought processes or make them more cluttered.  They will not, however, lead to better or more perfect care.  They haven't yet, and they won't in the future. And they are prone to be adulterated by commercial intentions.  Looking for an answer to our complex healthcare p...
Source: In My Humble Opinion - November 11, 2013 Category: Family Physicians Authors: Jordan Grumet Source Type: blogs

#RareDisease … Searching for Rare Disease Support on the Social Web
When it comes to The Healthcare Hashtag Project, one of the most rewarding things for us at Symplur is to see people use and share the tools and information that they find during their visit.  To know that the project is found to be useful by a diverse community of healthcare workers, caregivers, and patients makes us feel like we’re helping to fill a void.  And perhaps nowhere is that void more evident than for those whose lives are touched by a rare disease. I say that about rare disease with some rather firm confidence … because I speak from personal experience.  Please allow me to explain …   Contract...
Source: Fox ePractice - January 15, 2013 Category: Health Managers Authors: Thomas M. Lee, B.S., NHA Tags: Connecting the dots in healthcare social media Source Type: blogs