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Is This The End-Game For American Doctors?
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DrRich has long argued that a non-negotiable necessity of Obamacare will be to gain complete control over the behavior of American physicians. Most of the important medical decisions which doctors make – the ones that cost the government the most money – will be forcibly centralized. That is, panels of experts will determine which services are to be delivered to which patients under which circumstances, and doctors who fail to follow the experts’ dictates, in all their particulars, will be prosecuted as criminals.
This is more than just a matter of cost management. Placing control of most import...
Source: The Covert Rationing Blog - September 12, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: DrRichRichard N. Fogoros Tags: healthcare Policy Source Type: blogs
Doctor Considers All The Ways He’s Been Inspired By Steve JobsEmail this article to a colleague.
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I’ve been reading A Game Plan for Life: The Power of Mentoring written by famed UCLA basketball coach John Wooden. Wooden spends half of his book thanking the people who had a powerful influence on his life, coaching, philosophy, and outlook on life. Important people included his father, coaches, President Abraham Lincoln, and Mother Theresa.
Yes, President Abraham Lincoln and Mother Theresa.
Though clearly he could have never met the former and didn’t have the opportunity to meet the latter, Wooden correctly points out that as individuals we can be mentored by the writings, words, and thoughts of people we...
Source: Better Health - September 10, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Davis Liu, M.D. Tags: Opinion Apple Atul Gawande Doctor Patient Relationship Harvard Medical School Health Care System healthcare reform Information Technology Inspiration John Wooden Mentor Redefining Health Care Steve Jobs Source Type: blogs
AA & Professional WorkersEmail this article to a colleague.
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Dust jacket of the first edition of the 'Big Book'
Alcoholics Anonymous has many A.A. members and service committees who are available to provide professionals with information about Alcoholics Anonymous.
A.A. has a long history of cooperating but not affiliating with outside organizations and being available to provide A.A. meetings or information about A.A. upon request.
For professionals working with people who have special needs there is available A.A. material and literature in Braille, videos in American Sign Language, easy-to-read pamphlets, and much more.
Also available are;
A.A. Video for Healthcare Profe...
Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com - September 9, 2011 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: Alcohol Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholism Recovery Sobriety American Sign Language braille Employment healthcare Human Resources Legal & Corrections professional workers Source Type: blogs
Republican Candidates Healthcare StancesEmail this article to a colleague.
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Dr. James Coffin, VP of Healthcare and Life Sciences at Dell, has a post up on the Dell Healthcare Community site that looks at the stances of the various Republican candidates for the US Presidential nomination. It’s an interesting read if you haven’t been following the republican candidates very much.
What the article doesn’t address is these candidates stance on the HITECH Act. The key here is to realize that the HITECH act isn’t part of the Affordable Care Act which every GOP candidate is saying they will repeal if they become President. So, where does that really leave the HITECH Act should a r...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 9, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: John Tags: ARRA EHR EHR Stimulus Electronic Health Record Electronic Medical Record EMR healthcare IT HITECH Affordable Care Act Dell Dell healthcare EHR Incentive EMR Incentive EMR Selection EMR Stimulus GOP James Coffin Republican Source Type: blogs
Doctors as bottlenecksEmail this article to a colleague.
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Doctors are an integral part of the healthcare delivery system and whenever people are worried about the poor quality of healthcare in India, one of the standard solutions is to start more medical colleges so that we can train more doctors to provide better medical care for patients . I do not think an insufficient number of doctors is actually a problem .I think having too many doctors is the real problem – and creating more doctors will just aggravate this.
This is because of the way the system is designed today. Everything revolves around doctors and doctors have become a bottleneck in delivering healthcare . A lot o...
Source: The Patient's Doctor - September 9, 2011 Category: Obstetricians and Gynecologists Tags: Medicine Health Health care India doctor patient healthcare in India Physician Source Type: blogs
A Fresh Look at the Cost of HealthCare #CHAM2011Email this article to a colleague.
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A new look at the cost of Health Care is promised at the 3rd edition of Prof. Vallancien's conference CHAM, convention on health analysis and management taking place on Sept 30 - Oct 1, 2011 in Chamonix. Get the program here.
You'll be able to attend virtually, by live streaming. It will be the occasion to meet up with a concentration of French health economists and some international guests.
I'll be there, interviewing Joseph White of Case Western Reserve University on an exciting question: is it possible to improve population health? You think it's a given that public health is everyone'...
Source: Denise Silber's eHealth - September 9, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Denise Silber Tags: Hospitals Quality of healthcare Source Type: blogs
The $9.99 iPad for HealthcareEmail this article to a colleague.
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Many people in healthcare are still debating the value of the iPad in their medical practice. For example, Dr. West has expressed his iPad hesitations. That’s why I was fascinated when I saw this video which demonstrated a $9.99 iPad like tablet. This tablet even has some features the actual iPad has. Check out the video below to see what I mean:
I’m reminded of a previous post I did (which I can’t find right now) where I discuss the perfect solution to charting. It’s flexible, easy to learn, portable, etc….it’s a paper chart. Of course, don’t let the humor distract you from the b...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 8, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: John Tags: EHR Electronic Health Record Electronic Medical Record EMR EMR Technology healthcare IT Dr. Michael West Funny healthcare Tablets iPad iPad EHR Paper Chart Source Type: blogs
More consumer outreach, this time from ONCEmail this article to a colleague.
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Just days after I remarked how the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality had brought back its advertising campaign aimed at educating the general public about patient safety, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has launched its own form of consumer outreach: HealthIT.gov. According to ONC:
Health is personal. It’s personal for the parent who has a child with asthma.It’s personal for the patient with a new cancer diagnosis. And it’s personal for the doctor who is responsible for caring for them.
At its core, HealthIT.gov is about patients, and it’s about help...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - September 8, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil Versel Tags: consumerism EMR/EHR health IT healthcare IT HHS AHRQ CMS education ONC Source Type: blogs
How the Economy Affects HiringEmail this article to a colleague.
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In my previous role at MedTech Media, I helped manage recruitment advertising/job posting sales for both HIMSS JobMine and Healthcare Finance JobSpot. During this time I established relationships with many recruiters and HR representatives. We would often strategize about how to advertise a certain position because just posting it wasn’t enough. You’d think it would be an easy fill as there are plenty of job seekers on the market, but these conversations revealed a lot about how the economy impacts their ability to hire the right candidate.
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Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - September 8, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: EJ Fechenda Tags: healthcare Finance JobSpot HIMSS JobMine Industry News Workforce Management Source Type: blogs
"Just set the wrist. Walk away."Email this article to a colleague.
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Oh my. "I already told you, I was stamping out disease in my outpatient clinic." Classic from ZDogg. My Blog Name
Source: Medical Marginalia - September 7, 2011 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Tags: healthcare primary care ZDogg humor Source Type: blogs
Free EHR Model Has Bent the EHR Cost CurveEmail this article to a colleague.
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One of the most fascinating people I met on my recent trip to San Francisco was a doctor named Aaron Blackledge from @CarePractice. We spent a great evening together talking EMR, healthcare and entrepreneurship in general. You may also remember me posting about Aaron drinking the CareCloud EHR kool-aid (See also an opposing view of CareCloud and my thoughts after seeing CareCloud), but I digress.
Dr. Blackledge has posted a thoughtful look at how the EHR cost curve has changed over the past few years. It’s an interesting read for those looking for an interesting take from a physician in Silicon Valley and his idea of...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 7, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: John Tags: EHR Electronic Health Record Electronic Medical Record EMR EMR Analyst healthcare IT Carecloud CareCloud EHR CarePractice Dell EHR Cost Curve EHR Pricing EMR Pricing Free EHR Practice Fusion Source Type: blogs
Why Many Clinicians Dislike Their EMRsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Many clinicians dislike the EMRs that they are forced to use (see: "Usability Failures" of EMRs Frustate Physician Users; When Doctor's Say "No" to EMR Deployments; Physician Concludes that EMRs Don't Help Patients). In this way, EMRs are different than hospital diagnostic systems like LISs, RISs, and PACSs. Most pathologists, radiologists, and their support personnel would quit their jobs rather than to work without their systems. These systems are designed for, and chosen by, the professionals who view them as a critical work tools. This is not true for EMRs as explained by Katherine Rourke in...
Source: Lab Soft News - September 7, 2011 Category: Pathologists Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Electronic Medical Record healthcare Business healthcare Information Technology healthcare Solutions Other than Lab Hospitals and healthcare Delivery LIS Definitions and Strategy Pathology Informatics Source Type: blogs
Boehringer Ingelheim and Ashoka Make More Health via Social MediaEmail this article to a colleague.
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Source: Pharma Marketing Blog - September 7, 2011 Category: Pharma Commentators Tags: Boehringer Ingelheim Changemakers social media healthcare Reform Source Type: blogs
Yet more health IT articles based on functionalist and determinist assumptions of the general format “what is the impact of technology X on outcome Y"Email this article to a colleague.
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The article "Tensions and Paradoxes in Electronic Patient Record Research: A Systematic Literature Review Using the Meta-narrative Method" by Greenhalgh, Potts, Wong, Bark and Swinglehurst at University College London appeared in the Dec. 2009 Milbank Quarterly. I wrote about it extensively and quoted it at this post. A key statement:... This review has also identified some areas where more research does not appear to be needed ... [including] simplified experimental studies based on functionalist and determinist assumptions of the general format “what is the impact of technology X on outcome Y?” or variations thereof ...
Source: Health Care Renewal - September 6, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: NEJM healthcare IT Source Type: blogs
Millions for tribute, but not one cent for defense: If hospitals cannot afford to legally defend EMR mishaps, should they be investing in them?Email this article to a colleague.
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Imagine an airline going out and buying new multimillion-dollar jets with increased fuel efficiency and that produce less pollution. However, they knowingly buy them under conditions of not being able to afford to perform complete diagnostics/forensics for the FAA when something goes awry and a plane malfunctions or crashes.Absurd?Apparently not in the domain of healthcare IT.The hospital where my mother was injured (now of blessed memory as a result) has still refused to substantively answer EMR-related questions, after a motion by my mother's attorney to compel discovery.As part of their legally sworn-truthful response t...
Source: Health Care Renewal - September 6, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: healthcare IT failure healthcare IT cost Source Type: blogs
Common EHR Implementation Issue – Inadequate EHR TemplatesEmail this article to a colleague.
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Time for the latest entry in my series of Common EHR Implementation Issues. See also my previous posts on Unexpected EHR Expenses, EHR Performance Issues and a little follow up to avoiding the EHR performance issues altogether.
This weeks common EHR implementation issue is: Inadequate EHR Templates.
Before I begin with the major issues of inadequate EHR templates, it’s worth noting that there are a few EHR software out there that use a different EHR documentation paradigm than templates. For example, some use voice recognition to power their documentation. Others have a system that learns your documentation over time...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 6, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: John Tags: EHR Electronic Health Record Electronic Medical Record EMR EMR Implementation EMR Selection healthcare IT Dr. Michael West EHR Implementation EHR Implementation Issues EHR Specialty Templates EHR Templates EMR Implementation Issues Source Type: blogs
The Challenge of Deploying Decision Support Systems (DSS) in PathologyEmail this article to a colleague.
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This is a guest blog by Dr. Glenn Edwards. He is currently Medical Director, St John of God Pathology, Wembley , Western Australia. By way of disclosure, he was formerly CEO and Medical Director of Pacific Knowledge Systems.
Jim Harrison’s recent summary of pathologists’ visions about their view of the future from an IT perspective deserves close attention (see: Key Changes in AP and CP during the Next Five Years; Relevance of IT). Many pathologists believe that decision support and an enhanced consultative role, including better interpretation of test results, are the keys to a sustainable future for pathology. I full...
Source: Lab Soft News - September 6, 2011 Category: Pathologists Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Anatomic Pathology Clinical Lab Industry News Clinical Lab Testing Electronic Medical Record healthcare Information Technology Laboratory Industry Trends LIS Definitions and Strategy Source Type: blogs
Grand Rounds 7-50: The Jobs! Jobs! Jobs! EditionEmail this article to a colleague.
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While Grand Rounds is normally the highlight of everybody’s week here in the medical blogosphere, this time it’s different. This week, we are all – each and every one of us – completely distracted by the most wonderful sense of expectation and joy, to the exclusion of virtually every other human emotion. For DrRich, at least, the feeling puts him in mind of the giddy anticipation he experienced on, say, his 5th Christmas eve, when he was still young enough to consider Santa Claus a magical-but-real agent of earthly delights. (This was before DrRich realized that Santa, being obese...
Source: The Covert Rationing Blog - September 6, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: DrRichRichard N. Fogoros Tags: healthcare Policy Source Type: blogs
Labor DayEmail this article to a colleague.
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For those of you that were expecting a meaningful use monday post, I’m sorry. Don’t worry though, Lynn will be back with another Meaningful Use Monday post next week. It is Labor Day after all. Although, I saw a great tweet or Facebook status that said, “Why in America do we take the day off on Labor day?” I love plays on words. They also asked why we put a tree in our house for Christmas and not Arbor day.
I must admit that Labor day has become pretty inconsequential for me. Football has already started. My son’s been in school for a week already. Blogging for myself, it’s not like I re...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 5, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: John Tags: Personal Musings healthcare Scene Labor Day Las Vegas Source Type: blogs
Healthcare Update — 09-05-2011Email this article to a colleague.
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See more news stories at the Satellite Edition of this week’s update over at ER Stories.net.
Patients gone wild CAUGHT ON VIDEO. It’s like a Jerry Springer show in the hospital waiting room.
Check out the one guy stabbing the other with what appears to be a hair pick beginning at the 1:05 mark.
Another point from the video: One rule of crowd control in the ED is to keep unstable situations out of the treatment areas. They should not have opened those doors into the treatment area around the 2:40 mark so that everyone could run inside. If providers in the main room get injured in a subsequent melee, they can’t pro...
Source: WhiteCoat's Call Room - September 5, 2011 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: WhiteCoat Tags: healthcare Update Source Type: blogs
EHR Growth, HIT and EHR Standards, Hospital EMR User Tracking Bill, and MGMA Conference in Las VegasEmail this article to a colleague.
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Time for my roundup of interesting topics seen throughout the interwebs and related to EHR and healthcare IT.
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Astounding growth in use of EHRs – 5x in 2.5 yrs – Dr. Mostashari at #ACE2011 (via Skype) – does your doc use an EHR?
I’d like to see where Dr. Mostashari got those numbers. I think there’s little doubt that EHR use is up. If we say that 2.5 years ago it was at about 15%, then that would mean that using his growth number we’re now at 75%. That seems way too high for me.
@shelleypetersen – Michelle Petersen
US are starting to standardise vendor requirements for #...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 5, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: John Tags: EHR Electronic Health Record Electronic Medical Record EMR EMR Analyst healthcare IT Hospital EHR Hospitals #ACE2011 Allscripts EMR Tracking EMR Users Farzad Mostashari Hospital EMR Las Vegas MGMA MGMA 2011 Michelle Peter Source Type: blogs
Why I am bullish on the Indian healthcare IT sectorEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Indian healthcare system has become sick. The system is broken and needs to be fixed. However conventional approaches are just not going to work.
Trying to set up new medical colleges to churn out new doctors just increases the supply of doctors which only ends up in increasing the demand for more medical treatment. After all, the one thing doctors are good at doing is creating a demand for their services - they are not going to sit around twiddling their thumbs doing nothing ! More physicians just means an increased volume of "supplier-induced" medical services. There is a persistent positive correlation between the ...
Source: The Patient's Doctor - September 4, 2011 Category: Obstetricians and Gynecologists Tags: Medicine USA United States Health care India Business opportunity patient healthcare in India Source Type: blogs
HIPAA and Football #HITsmEmail this article to a colleague.
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I don’t know about the rest of you, but a big part of me is getting anxious for the start of college football (for my team it starts tomorrow) and the NFL starting on Thursday. It’s one of my favorite times of the year and probably my wife’s least favorite times, but I digress.
During the #HITsm chat today I saw a great quote that talked about HIPAA from Peyton Manning:
@bwilsonIntel – Ben Wilson
RT @jonmertz: HIPAA qte of the week from Peyton Manning: “I dont know what HIPAA stands for, but I believe in it and I practice it.” #HITsm
In case you don’t follow football, Peyton Mannin...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 2, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: John Tags: healthcare healthcare IT healthcare Social Media HIPAA General #HITSM Arian Foster College Football NFL Peyton Manning Twitter Source Type: blogs
Key Changes in AP and CP during the Next Five Years; Relevance of ITEmail this article to a colleague.
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This is a guest blog note by Jim Harrison, M.D., Ph.D. He is a pathologist and Associate Professor at the University of Virginia. It's a repost of a document that he circulated on the Association for Pathology Informatics (API) listserv earlier in the year and is, in part, a compilation of input from other pathologists about anticipated changes in AP and CP.
Earlier this summer I posted a request to the API list for thoughts about key changes that might occur in AP and CP within the next five years and how those changes might be best supported by IT. A similar request was passed around in CAP's informatics-related ...
Source: Lab Soft News - September 2, 2011 Category: Pathologists Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Anatomic Pathology Clinical Lab Industry News Digital Imaging in Pathology Electronic Medical Record healthcare Information Technology Lab Information Products Laboratory Industry Trends LIS Definitions and Strategy Medical Education Med Source Type: blogs
“Our EMR is So Slow”Email this article to a colleague.
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Many of you might remember my recent post about EMR Performance Issues (ie. EMR Slowness). Turns out, the post had a pretty big impact on some readers of the site. In fact, it sounds like it was partially therapeutic for some to realize that they’re not alone.
I asked permission to share one of the responses with you so you could get some more first hand perspective on the issue of EMR slowness. I share it in the hopes that others can be aware and avoid it. Plus, I hope the EHR vendors that read this will take it to heart and be fanatically focused on EMR speed and customer support.
I’ve removed the name of the...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 1, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: John Tags: EHR Electronic Health Record Electronic Medical Record EMR EMR Implementation healthcare IT Meaningful Use EHR Companies EHR Interfaces EHR Slowness EHR Speed EHR Support EMR Comapnies EMR Slowness EMR Speed EMR Vendors Source Type: blogs
California Courts Order Insurers To Cover Anorexia RecoveryEmail this article to a colleague.
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Jeanene Harlick, 37, was at 65% her ideal body weight and needed a feeding tube, but her insurance company wouldn’t cover inpatient care at an eating disorder facility. Harlick lives in California, which has one of the nation’s strongest mental health parity laws—laws that say insurance companies must provide the same coverage for mental illness as they do for physical illness). So she sued—and won, for now; the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco just said that her insurance company, Blue Shield of California, must pay for her residential care. The ruling could make a difference in how insur...
Source: Healthbolt - September 1, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Elizabeth Nolan Brown Tags: FEEL mental health anorexia eating disorders health policy health-insurance healthcare Source Type: blogs
Conference overload, meet conference overlapEmail this article to a colleague.
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Normally this time of year, I’m making plans to attend the many fall conferences in health IT and related industries. This year, my decisions are harder. You see, it seems like everyone decided to schedule their events during the last week of October:
AMIA 2011, Oct. 23-26, Washington
MGMA Annual Conference, Oct. 23-26, Las Vegas
TEDMED 2011 Oct. 25-28, San Diego
CHIME11 Fall CIO Forum, Oct. 26-28, Austin, Texas
Just for kicks, I’m scheduled to participate in the Institute for Health Technology Transformation’s Health IT Summit, Nov. 2-3 in Beverly Hills, Calif.
All are worthwhile, and all will be great p...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - September 1, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil Versel Tags: health IT healthcare IT media medical informatics mobile practice management AMIA CHIME Institute for Health Technology Transformation MGMA TEDMED Source Type: blogs
Hospital CEO Is Diagnosed With Cancer While Building A New Cancer CenterEmail this article to a colleague.
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Pat Elliott, me and a HUGE cactus at Banner MD Anderson!
I am just back from the Phoenix-metro area. It’s now the 5th largest in the United States and despite home foreclosures, there is still a feeling of growth in many areas. Gilbert, a nearby suburb, has expanded to over 200,000 people and a growing major medical center. I spent several days interviewing patients and staff about the soon-to-open, Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center. The hope is that by bringing MD Anderson’s world-renowned expertise, clinical trials and processes to this new center, cancer care around Phoenix and the southwest will be improved. Look fo...
Source: Better Health - September 1, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: AndrewSchorr Tags: Interviews News Banner Health Cancer Cancer Diagnosis Cancer Survivor Chemotherapy Head and Neck Cancer healthcare MD Anderson Cancer Center Peter Fine Phoenix Powerful Patients Radiation Struggle Source Type: blogs
Paying Nurses to Function as Healthy Role Models for PatientsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Everyone seems to be in agreement that most Americans lead lives that are far too sedentary. The solution to this problem, and many of the problems associated with a sedentary lifestyle, is exercise. However, motivating people to pursue a more active life is enormously challenging. Perhaps a good place to start is understanding that nurses (and also physicians) often function as role models for patients. A recent article raises this issue (see: Calling Nurses to Exercise as Role Models for their Patients). Below is an excerpt from it:
Nurses, just like many of their patients, struggle to find time and motivation to exercis...
Source: Lab Soft News - September 1, 2011 Category: Pathologists Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: healthcare Business Hospitals and healthcare Delivery Medical Consumerism Source Type: blogs
Where are the Indian medical entrepreneurs ?Email this article to a colleague.
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The Indian healthcare industry has become sick and disruptive innovations are needed to heal
it !
This is a huge business opportunity . We need to remember that healthcare spending in India today accounts for less than 4.2% of the GDP, whereas in most developed countries it is 6-9% and in the USA it is as much as 16%. This means there is immense growth potential in India in this sector !
Since doctors deal with patients daily, and see the problems and pain points firsthand, one would expect them to be leaders in creating fixes to heal the system. However, they are very few medical entrepreneurs in India today .
I feel t...
Source: The Patient's Doctor - September 1, 2011 Category: Obstetricians and Gynecologists Tags: Medicine Health India patient healthcare healthcare in India Information Therapy Doctor-patient relationship Source Type: blogs
Best Description of the CareCloud EHR PlatformEmail this article to a colleague.
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In a post on EMR and EHR about Social Media and EMRs, Andre Vovan, MD MBA from Mitochon Systems offered an interesting insight into the comparison between EMR and social media.
Social media and EMR are a natural fit. Think about what social media really enables. The ablity to stay connected, following different strings of info/story weaved by connected people. Say for instance you and your friends went to the Grand Canyon, one person took pictures while the other did the cooking, planning, and was responsible for entertainment during the trip. When they try to retell the story to their friends, each will be able to add dif...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 31, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: John Tags: EHR Electronic Health Record Electronic Medical Record EMR EMR Technology healthcare IT Albert Santalo Andre Vovan Carecloud CareCloud Platform EHR Company EHR Vendor EMR Company EMR Industry EMR Vendor healthcare Platform Source Type: blogs
Projected Future Costs of Obesity to "Crush" U.S. and U.K. Healthcare SystemsEmail this article to a colleague.
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A recent article in Lancet discussed how the global obesity epidemic would "crush" the U.S. and U.K. health systems with its associated increased long-term, disease-associated costs (see: Obesity to crush health care systems globally: study). Although the use of the word "crush" may seem overly dramatic, I think that it's appropriate in this context. Below is a brief summary of the article:
Rising prevalence of obesity is a worldwide health concern because excess weight gain within populations forecasts an increased burden from several diseases, most notably cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and ca...
Source: Lab Soft News - August 31, 2011 Category: Pathologists Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: healthcare Business Hospitals and healthcare Delivery Medical Consumerism Medical Education Medical Research Source Type: blogs
Exploring the Health Needs of Incarcerated WomenEmail this article to a colleague.
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The July/August issue of the Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing includes a series of articles on the health care needs of women in prison, including the need to address inequalities, provide thorough care for complex health conditions, and to attend to the end-of-life needs of female prisoners.
In End-of-Life Care and Barriers for Female Inmates, the authors explore a little-discussed topic. For background, they explain that “end-of-life” in prisons does not typically occur they way we might think, and so health care, and especially end-of-life care, for incarcerated women is much more co...
Source: Our Bodies Our Blog - August 30, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Rachel Tags: healthcare System Source Type: blogs
Top Considerations for Transitioning to ICD-10 – Guest PostEmail this article to a colleague.
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Chuck Podesta is Fletcher Allen Health Care’s chief information officer.
ICD-10 would not be so daunting if the deadline was not occurring during the rush to get EHRs for meaningful use. Add in value-based purchasing, bundled payments and transitioning to ACOs, and you can see why many CIOs are retiring early or migrating to the vendor or consulting world. We are just over two years away from the October 2013 deadline, and there is much work to be done. ICD-10 contains 68,000 codes, as opposed to the 13,000 currently used in the ICD-9 world. There is a code for every condition that exists on the planet.
The revenue cyc...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 30, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: John Tags: ACO EHR Electronic Health Record Electronic Medical Record EMR healthcare IT ICD-10 Meaningful Use ACOs Chuck Podesta CIO Fletcher Allen Health Care GE Centricity 5.0 GE healthcare healthcare CIO ICD-9 Source Type: blogs
Social Media reactions to the 'Top 5 worst EMR myths'Email this article to a colleague.
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Healthcare IT News Associate Editor Molly Merrill wrote a July 26 piece on the five worst EMR myths. Over the past month, there's been debate and discussion surrounding the list, via our social media outlets and in our reader comments posted on the Healthcare IT News site.
Here are the five misconceptions Merrill included:
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Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - August 30, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Kelly Mehler Tags: Caroline Poplin healthcare IT News Associate Prista Corporation Robert Foster Wrote Don Jarrell Electronic Health Records Source Type: blogs
A New Look at Healthcare AccessEmail this article to a colleague.
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By Mary Grealy. When we talk about people who don’t have access to healthcare, there’s a natural assumption that it’s because they can’t afford it. A new study shows that’s not necessarily the case.
According to the study published in the journal Health Services Research, 21 percent of American adults said they had delayed care for non-financial reasons compared to 19 percent that cited cost as the primary reason for not seeking healthcare.
Those non-financial reasons included not being able to get to a doctor’s office during working hours, long commutes to the medical office, or not being able to get an appo...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - August 30, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Access Choice Consumer Health Care Cost Insurance Affordable Care Act healthcare Source Type: blogs
Laboratory-Based Genetic Counselors Reduce the Cost of Ordered TestsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Appropriate test ordering by clinicians is a key aspect of clinical laboratory management. It can save time and money. One of the most obvious goals of this approach is to cull out duplicate test orders when the patient in question is clinically stable and the additional results are useless. The number of test cycles to arrive at a diagnosis can also often be reduced by immediately ordering a more specific test rather than repetitive groups of less-specific tests. The more specific test may be more expensive than the others but the total cost of testing may be less. In general, clinicians often require the most advice when...
Source: Lab Soft News - August 30, 2011 Category: Pathologists Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Clinical Lab Industry News Clinical Lab Testing healthcare Business Hospitals and healthcare Delivery Lab Information Products Lab Processes and Procedures Laboratory Industry Trends Source Type: blogs
Some of the Thinking Behind Meaningful Use Stage 2 – Meaningful Use MondayEmail this article to a colleague.
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Lynn Scheps is Vice President, Government Affairs at EHR vendor SRSsoft. In this role, Lynn has been a Voice of Physicians and SRSsoft users in Washington during the formulation of the meaningful use criteria. Lynn is currently working to assist SRSsoft users interested in showing meaningful use and receiving the EHR incentive money. Check out Lynn’s previous Meaningful Use Monday posts.
A great deal of work, discussion, and debate by the HIT Policy Committee and its Workgroup members went into developing the recommendations for meaningful use Stage 2 (discussed in the last two Meaningful Use Monday posts). Meetings ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 29, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Lynn Tags: ARRA EHR EHR Stimulus Electronic Health Record Electronic Medical Record EMR healthcare IT HITECH Meaningful Use Clinical Quality Measures CMS CPOE CSC EHR Incentive EMR Incentive EMR Stimulus ePrescribing Gayle Harrell Source Type: blogs
Healthcare Update — 08-29-2011Email this article to a colleague.
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Also see the Satellite Edition of this week’s update over at ER Stories‘ resurrected blog.
Patients gone wild goes international. High patient volumes and lack of adequate staffing cause patients to become “aggressive over lack of service” in Australia. “Five or six” nurses assaulted in one week. Note to patients: Assaulting nurses won’t get you faster care or better care. Trust me.
West Virginia plaintiffs awarded $91.5 million after jury decides that dementia-stricken parent died from lack of sufficient food and water over a span of 3 weeks. Plaintiffs successfully argued that the nursing ho...
Source: WhiteCoat's Call Room - August 29, 2011 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: WhiteCoat Tags: healthcare Update Source Type: blogs
What do patients share online?Email this article to a colleague.
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According to a report from the Pew Internet Project 80% of U.S. internet consumers seek health information online, making it the third most popular activity after email and search engines.
We have all seen the massive adoption of social media in patient education. The next step for healthcare marketer is to understand what patients are sharing online and how they are sharing it.
A survey conducted in June 2011 by Minneapolis marketing research firm Russell Herder “Seeking Social Solace: How Patients Use Social Media To Disclose Medical Diagnoses Online” gives us some answers.
40% of the medical conditions t...
Source: Nicola Ziady - August 29, 2011 Category: Medical Marketing and PR Authors: Nicola Ziady Tags: Blogging Feature Post healthcare Marketing interactive marketing Interactive Medical Education strategic social media Tomorrow's healthcare Twitter Source Type: blogs
Nationwide EHR and Health Care in the CloudEmail this article to a colleague.
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Time to touch on a few popular topics that I found being discussed on Twitter. First, I’ll put the tweets and then a little but of my own commentary on these hot button issues in healthcare IT.
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Does a nationwide #EHR lower healthcare costs? Social media reactions | #GovHIT Blog http://ow.ly/64DL1
I always love when people talk about a nationwide EHR. I actually think that it’s a bad title by Government Healthcare IT, but that it’s a very good question. To me a nationwide EHR implies that there is one EHR for the entire nation. I think a number of other countries which are much smaller and less com...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 29, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: John Tags: EHR Electronic Health Record Electronic Medical Record EMR healthcare IT healthcare Social Media Client Server EMR Cloud Based EHR Cloud Based EMR Government HealthIT Mark Scrimshire Nationwide EHR Nationwide EMR SAAS EHR Source Type: blogs
Does Social Media achieve healthcare marketing objectives?Email this article to a colleague.
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We all try to market on social networking platforms. Some hospitals marketing departments even go so far as to invest resources into social media marketing! But does this social sharing actually achieve healthcare marketing objectives or is it just a passing fad?
Acsys surveyed hospital marketers to find out with “Insights in Action”.
According to the survey 55% of healthcare marketers believe their public website to be an above average or excellent patient user experience. – Tremendous news for the web team!
33% of hospital marketers believe online videos are a very effective tactic to achieve the heal...
Source: Nicola Ziady - August 29, 2011 Category: Medical Marketing and PR Authors: Nicola Ziady Tags: Feature Post healthcare Marketing interactive marketing Interactive Medical Education Physician Marketing Physician Recruitment Tomorrow's healthcare Twitter Video Source Type: blogs
