December 11, 2012 Jeff Smith, Assistant Director of Advocacy at CHIME
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The Health IT Policy Committee met for their monthly meeting this week in Washington and during an extensive review and update on projects and programs, ONC announced they were taking preliminary steps to establish a subcommittee on HIT and ACOs. The subcommittee would be charged with making recommendations to the HITPC on how health IT can support the business needs of accountable care models.
November 19, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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The National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) has released the patient engagement framework, a five-step model that will attempt to help providers, payers, and other healthcare entities on the path to engaging patients. A few of the stakeholders who helped develop this newly created framework recently discussed the tool on a NeHC-sponsored webinar.
November 13, 2012 David Raths
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Mobile health solution helping identify community-wide asthma triggers that can be improved or eliminated
October 22, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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When the University of Missouri Health System sought to optimize its bedside documentation workflows, it chose to enhance its current medication administration devices to allow mobile point-of-care documentation, an innovation that has led to a dramatic advance in speed to documentation of patient data, ultimately improving patient care.
October 3, 2012 Jeff Smith, Assistant Director of Advocacy at CHIME
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The subject of electronic health records, and the billions of dollars set aside to digitize the country, made national headlines this week – and not in a way that most proponents of health IT would have liked. Stemming from two independent analyses, headlines in The New York Times and the Washington Post detailed how greater use of electronic records might be making it easier for hospitals and doctors to submit erroneous payment claims.
September 13, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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Stage 2 meaningful use calls for encryption of data on end-user devices. With many clinicians, especially physicians, increasingly bringing their own BlackBerrys, iPhones, iPads, Android devices, and other handhelds, into patient care organizations for their personal clinical use, what some term the bring your own device (BYOD) movement, IT leaders could be faced with a challenging situation when it comes to securing these devices.
September 5, 2012
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The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Health Plan has introduced a new mobile application, allowing members to view and download personal health record (PHR) to a smartphone. The app also gives members access to their virtual ID cards, contact information for recently visited providers from a personalized list, and it gives them the ability to check the status of their claims, and to view flexible spending account balances.
August 30, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Michelle Cunningham, M.D., a solo practitioner in Houston, has a busier life than most people could even imagine. For her, technology is a must-have set of tools for making all the pieces of her professional and personal life work.
August 21, 2012
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Providers aren’t the only ones trying to get patients more engaged with various technology platforms, according to a new report from Chilmark Research, payers are also getting on board. According to the report, various health insurers have begun creating initiatives which use social media, mobile health (mHealth), and even games to support patient engagement.
August 13, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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A recent conversation with HCI Editor-in-Chief Mark Hagland got me thinking about some of the initiatives I’ve seen popping up recently, in which leading healthcare institutions are using their resources to start up centers that aim to solve greater issues in the industry. Johns Hopkins and NYU are two examples of large-scale collaborations that are looking at population health and mobile health, respectively.
August 10, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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Healthcare Informatics Associate Editor Gabriel Perna interviews the CEO of the National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC), Kate Berry, in part 2 of two-part podcast series on patient engagement. In the first part of the interview, they talked about why patient engagement has come to the forefront, and what came out that summit. Part two brings out discussion on how mobile health plays into the patient engagement landscape – including an app that Berry says will be a game-changer, and what NeHC has planned next when it comes to patient engagement.
July 24, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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Across the country, providers are using mobile solutions to enhance nurses’ ability to take care of patients at the point of care, whether that’s through advanced communications, direct messaging, RFID barcode scanning, medication reconciliation, or some other means. It’s a recognition that nurses, as the glue of a provider setting, need to be armed with the latest technology.
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