July 11, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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In light of the recent shuttering of Tennessee’s statewide health information exchange (HIE), what has never been more apparent is that HIEs must solve concrete business problems, while also fitting into clinician workflow. Nine healthcare providers in western Pennsylvania are seeking to do just that by launching ClinicalConnect, the region’s first HIE, to improve the quality and coordination of care for patients as they move among the region’s hospital systems.
July 2, 2012 Mark Hagland
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At a time when population health is becoming more and more prominent as an issue, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has developed yet one more additional approach to leveraging existing church-based health efforts to better track and manager parishioners’ blood pressure.
June 14, 2012
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Mayo Clinic has sold mRemedy, a company formed by Mayo and DoApp Inc. that offers a mobile healthcare platform to providers, to Axial Exchange, a Raleigh, N.C.-based virtual software-as-a-service company. The platform, myTality, aims to help patients navigate future hospital visits, and help hospitals better market their services. Axial plans on using it in conjunction with its care-transition platforms, Axial Patient and Axial Provider.
June 14, 2012
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The Cambridge, Mass.-based New England Health Institute (NEHI), a national health policy institute, has identified 11 emerging technologies that it thinks has the potential to improve care and lower costs for chronic disease patients, especially those in at-risk populations. According to NEHI, the technologies can target a range of chronic illnesses, including diabetes, asthma, stroke, and heart disease.
June 8, 2012 Mark Hagland
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With nurses increasingly becoming weighed down by mobile devices, some pioneering hospital leaders are moving forward to try to streamline nurse mobility. Among these is Steve Shirley, CIO at Parkview Medical Center in Pueblo, Colo. At the beginning of this year, Shirley led the implementation of an iPod-based mobile application that enables nurses to access patient data and clinical workflows.
May 23, 2012 Jeff Smith, Assistant Director of Advocacy at CHIME
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At an invite-only event held in Washington this week, CHIME members, federal officials and other health IT stakeholders met at the Bipartisan Policy Center to discuss the issue of patient matching. The briefing was well attended with leading CHIME members, foundation firms and top officials from CMS and ONC looking at various approaches to accurate patient matching.
May 21, 2012
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According to a report by the Department of Homeland Security, the increased use of mobile health technology opens up a world of vulnerability to patients and medical facilities. The report, "Attack Surface: Healthcare and Public Health Sector" says since IT networks are remotely available through medical devices, there is a rising concern that these devices will fail to protect against theft of medical information and malicious intrusion.
May 14, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Michael Green, D.O., has been helping to lead his radiologist colleagues forward towards automation-facilitated efficiency enhancement. Ultimately, he and his fellow radiologists in the Liberty Division of the Alliance Radiology group in the Kansas City metro area found a cloud-based PACS solution to be the inevitable choice when it came to access-anywhere imaging informatics.
May 11, 2012
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Kaiser Permanente (Oakland, Calif.) has launched an iOS health management app, offering its members access to all of the same tools available through My Health Manage. This includes provider details, lab test results, order prescription refills, and manage appointments.
May 7, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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In this podcast, Healthcare Informatics Assistant Editor Gabriel Perna talks with Deloitte’s senior advisor for healthcare transformation and technology, Harry Greenspun, M.D. on the subject of mobile health (mHealth) and patient engagement. Dr. Greenspun talked about how these two issues interconnect, how mHealth must evolve to properly engage patients, and how payment reimbursements play into everything.
April 25, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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Using social media to go the extra step and appeal to consumers, while tapping into their concerns, is the kind of phenomenon that’s starting to occur in healthcare, and one hopes will become even more frequent as providers and payers implement social media business strategies. Many industry observers say social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook and independent patient communities like Patients Like Me, can improve patient experiences and drive engagement for providers, payers, and pharmaceutical companies.
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