November 5, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Four medical informaticists present findings and learnings from their research and development work in the area of providing clinical decision support to physicians treating patients with co-morbidities
November 5, 2012 Mark Hagland
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The ONC's deputy national coordinator for programs and policy repeatedly emphasized the links between the requirements under the meaningful use program and the federal government’s broader goals for healthcare reform and population health.
November 1, 2012
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A Kaiser Health News analysis of the latest federal data on the nation’s nearly 1,200 community health centers showed wide variation in the quality of care delivered by the private, nonprofit clinics that are expected to play an important role under federal healthcare reform.
October 29, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Leaders at Northeast Georgia Health System have achieved health information exchange for images, while at the same time achieving Stage 1 meaningful use, and pursuing a broad clinical IT strategy, using state-of-the-art information technology.
October 29, 2012 John DeGaspari
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About an hour before Hurricane Sandy made landfall on the New Jersey coast tonight, Al Campanella, Virtua Health’s CIO and executive vice president of strategic business growth and analytics, contacted us at Healthcare Informatics to give us a status report.
October 27, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Ronald N. Riner, M.D., chief medical officer of Health Management Associates, a hospital management company that manages smaller community hospitals and physician practices in 15 states, reflects on the challenges and opportunities inherent in moving forward on practice management and EHRs across a widely diffuse nationwide health system
October 24, 2012 Mark Hagland
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As Medicare reimbursement issues create gloom for physicians nationwide, medical group leaders nationwide are facing profound 'chicken-or-egg' questions around how and even whether to invest in the critical IT investments, especially clinical ones, that will be needed to forge the new healthcare.
October 23, 2012 Mark Hagland
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At the MGMA Annual Conference, speakers embedded an implicit acknowledgement of the critical role of healthcare information technology and analytics into their discussions of everything from ACO development to HIE participation.
October 22, 2012 Mark Hagland
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MGMA senior executives tell members of the media that their association's members are feeling hampered by policy and reimbursement uncertainty, and holding off on becoming involved in accountable care organizations and other innovative arrangements because of that uncertainty.
October 22, 2012 Mark Hagland
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A panel of association leaders from the physician, physician group, hospital, health plan, and employer-purchaser worlds uncovers a mix of optimism and trepidation when it comes to moving the healthcare system forward towards new care delivery and reimbursement models.
October 17, 2012 Mark Hagland
blog
Perhaps the thought was inescapable in the context of the current presidential election campaign going on right now; after all, the second presidential debate, in which a very engaged pair of presidential candidates had sparred very intensely over a wide range of topics, had just taken place the night before. But I couldn't help thinking about Farzad Mostashari, M.D., as speaking like a political leader when he appeared at the CHIME Fall forum on Wednesday, Oct. 17-and I mean that in a good way.
October 8, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Cornerstone Health Care’s CIO Tim Terrell talks about the mission-critical IT foundations that will be required for medical groups to participate in the major healthcare reform-related programs, and how important analytics, and the implementation of IT solutions for care coordination, will be going forward
