August 28, 2013 Mark Hagland
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A team of researchers in the Global Institute for Emerging Healthcare Practices, a division of CSC, has published a new report that examines the challenges inherent in leveraging data and information for accountable or coordinated care. Lead author Jane Metzger speaks exclusively with HCI's Mark Hagland about the implications in the report's findings for healthcare IT leaders nationwide.
August 28, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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In the final part of our HIT voices series, Russ Branzell, CEO of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and George T.“Buddy” Hickman, executive vice president and CIO of Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center and CHIME’s board chair discuss meaningful use. Just what is at stake if the Stage 2 timeline isn’t extended?
August 27, 2013 Mark Hagland
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When The New York Times runs an article on page 1 of its Sunday Business section, people notice. And that goes double when the headline on the article reads, "How to Charge $546 for Six Liters of Saltwater." The bottom line? The push for transparency will only intensify in the new healthcare.
August 24, 2013 Mark Hagland
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The timing of MGMA's plea for leniency towards physicians working to meet the requirements of meaningful use couldn't be more challenging for whoever becomes the next National Coordinator for Health IT. What should ONC do--maintain policy rigor or accede to the demands of providers? The answer could prove pivotal to the entire HITECH program.
August 23, 2013 Mark Hagland
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Michael Restuccia, CIO of the University of Pennsylvania Health System, which has been participating in more than one HIE initiative, shares his perspectives on the challenges and opportunities inherent in health information exchange, with HCI's Mark Hagland.
August 23, 2013 Ted Reynolds and Marla Roberts, DrPH, R.N.
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GUEST BLOG In part 1 of this two-part blog series, we explored the current state of physician EHR use and suggested that the root cause of suboptimal physician EHR adoption is related to design issues and implementation planning problems. In part 2 here, we discuss the population health management issues that must be addressed in examining physician EHR adoption.
August 22, 2013 Mark Hagland
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In an Aug. 21 letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Susan Turney, M.D., president and CEO of the Medical Group Management Association, called on Sebelius to embrace a series of actions designed to ease the burden on physicians trying to meet to meet the meaningful use requirements in the HITECH Act, including instituting a moratorium on penalties for physicians that have successfully completed Stage 1 requirements.
August 22, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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Edward Marx, senior vice president and CIO of Texas Health Resources, talks with Healthcare Informatics about a variety of policy-related topics. He explains why he doesn't wish to see a delay of any kind to the Stage 2 implementation timeline. Part 2 of a three-part series.
August 22, 2013 Mark Hagland
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Robert Vietzke, vice president, network services, of Internet2, a bold nationwide and indeed international initiative to lay the groundwork for a revolution in 21st-century computing, speaks exclusively with Healthcare Informatics regarding what he and his colleagues are doing that has the potential to transform healthcare across multiple dimensions.
August 21, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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Medicare accountable care organizations (ACOs) are growing faster than non-Medicare ACOs, as the former now comprises more than half of all accountable care contracts nationwide, according to new analysis from the healthcare consulting business Leavitt Partners.
August 21, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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The industry is a little over a year away from the transition to ICD-10. While that may seem like a long time, Cindy Hegner, certified coder and approved ICD-10 trainer, says that patient care organizations cannot be too prepared. Hegner also offers her thoughts on the industry's readiness, and challenges medical practices will face in the upcoming months.
August 20, 2013 Jeff Smith, Director of Public Policy at CHIME
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Twenty-eight Meaningful Use-savvy clinicians and healthcare professionals from 18 states will be helping other providers find IT success as part of a new initiative at the the Office of the National Coordinator. The inaugural class of ONC’s Health IT Fellows will “provide grassroots insight and…act as champions to their provider and practice community colleagues on a local and national scale,” a purpose statement for the program said.
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