September 13, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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At Lakes Region General Healthcare, leaders implemented a mobile health (mHealth) communication system that allows for easier dialogue between clinicians, pharmacists, case managers, and other staff members. As a result, the provider has decreased ED wait times and improved patient satisfaction.
September 11, 2013 John DeGaspari
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Medical identity fraud has increased nearly 20 percent compared to the year before in the U.S., affecting an estimated 1.84 victims and having a total out-of-pocket medical costs incurred by medical identity theft victims to be $12.3 billion. Those are takeaways of the 2013 Survey on Medical Identity Theft, an annual survey now in its fourth year, which was released yesterday by the Ponemon Institute LLC, Traverse City, Mich., and sponsored by Portland, Ore.-base ID Experts. The report’s release roughly coincided with the launch (on August 29) of the Medical Identity Fraud Alliance (MIFA), an industry group formed to raise public awareness and to come up with potential ways to address the medical identity theft.
September 10, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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Patients are educating themselves online, spending 52 hours annually looking for health information on the web and some of this comes from physician influence, reveals a recent survey.
September 10, 2013 Jim Beinlich
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Systems that read and manage outside CDs containing medical image studies (X-Ray, CT, Ultrasound, etc.) are a real benefit to healthcare users who have been challenged with issues associated with the CDs patients bring along with them to hospital and office visits. Many times CDs are difficult to handle because the imaging systems used to burn the CDs are from different manufacturers or use different software to write to the CD; and some require different readers.
September 10, 2013 John DeGaspari
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Like many large health systems, the Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare is responsible for maintaining large and growing volumes of data. That is an important challenge, but not a new one, according to Don Franklin, Intermountain’s assistant vice president of infrastructure and operations, who notes that the 22-hospital health system currently manages about 4.7 petabytes of data. “This is not a new phenomenon for us. Intermountain is well known for its data analytics, for its massive amount of data and for managing that data,” he says.
