June 4, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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At Health Datapalooza IV, Cleveland Clinic CEO Delos Cosgrove, M.D. talked about the initiatives to improve access to care, quality of care, and lowering costs within the organization. Whether it’s through better designed hospital gowns or predictive analytics, nothing is off limits, Cosgrove told the crowd of attendees.
May 31, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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Leaders at the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America (CCFA) and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center have teamed up to better educate patients with Crohn’s disease. The web-based, interactive decision aid helps patients not only understand the complex disease, but the potential benefits and risks of treatments. Corey Siegel, M.D., the decision aid’s medical advisor, says it’s more than just a patient education tool.
May 8, 2013 David Raths
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A clinical decision support tool that grew out of years of research on predictive modeling at Kaiser Permanente is starting to make a big difference in changing patients’ behavior when clinicians share personalized risk scores with them. That Kaiser Permanente spin-off is San Francisco-based Archimedes Inc., and its decision support tool is called IndiGO.
May 7, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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In a recent webinar, leaders involved with the Kentucky Health Information Exchange (KHIE) talked about the organization’s partnership with the National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC). This collaboration is an effort to get providers in the state to better engage their patients, in accordance with Stages 2 and 3 of the government’s mandated Meaningful Use program.
April 23, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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A report by consulting firm Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP (PwC), commissioned by the Canada Health Infoway—a not-for-profit organization tasked with accelerating the development of electronic medical records (EMR) across Canada—has found $1.3 billion in savings from the implementation of EMRs by family physicians across Canada over the last six years.
April 17, 2013 John DeGaspari
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Patient satisfaction is an important indicator of a hospital's service quality, it doesn't necessarily reflect the quality of the surgical care patients receive, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University.
April 15, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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Nearly three-quarters of physicians agree that self-tracking leads to better patient outcomes, according to a new report from healthcare market research and advisory firm Manhattan Research.
March 7, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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The National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC), the Washington, D.C.-based public-private health IT advocate organization, is moving ahead in both health information exchange (HIE) and patient engagement initiatives. In a conversation with HCI's Associate Editor Gabriel Perna, NeHC CEO Kate Berry, talked about the upcoming work the organization is set to do in a pair of critical areas within the healthcare landscape.
February 22, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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Social media and healthcare, especially when you’re talking about hospitals, is most assuredly an awkward marriage. However, those in the industry who wish to dismiss social media, should look no further than a recent study from the Healthcare Innovation Technology Laboratory as potential proof of its value in assessing quality and patient satisfaction.
February 21, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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There’s an old saying that an apple a day keeps the doctor away. In apple orchard country, leaders at Columbia Valley Community Health (CVCH) are trying a different approach. They’re trying to keep their patients engaged and active with their healthcare at basic levels through the development of a smartphone app.
February 15, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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In an NCQA webinar, managing partner and CEO of Crystal Run Healthcare, Hal Teitelbaum, M.D., talked about the mentality his organization has in being an ACO. It’s clear being an ACO, and getting accreditation from the NCQA, is not something that can be done with negligence.
February 7, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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When it comes to patients’ skills and knowledge on their care, more equals less, according to the recently published findings of one research team. The study found the most tuned in patients cost 8-to-21 percent less than the costs of patients with the lowest level of activation. It’s just one more piece of evidence that supports this growing movement.
