September 15, 2013 Mark Hagland
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This summer, a group of healthcare researchers published a research article that evaluated the effects of standardized vascular health checks on health outcomes, for patients in six European countries. The implications for electronic health record-facilitated chronic care management and preventive health care in the U.S. are clear.
September 11, 2013 Mark Hagland
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Fast on the heels of an announcement by the ONC that the agency was launching a patient matching initiative, CHIME’s Russ Branzell gave HCI’s Mark Hagland an industry-first interview regarding CHIME’s praise for ONC’s announcement, and CHIME’s response to that announcement.
September 10, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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While the timing of Stage 2 of meaningful use has been a hot topic lately, there are tools and technology to help providers automate meaningful use so that practices of all sizes are ready for this huge next step. George Washington Medical Faculty Associates has found one solution to help them with the tedious tasks involved with meaningful use reporting.
September 10, 2013 Mark Hagland
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The results of a new study, conducted by the Atlanta-based Porter Research and sponsored by Covisint, seem to indicate that healthcare and healthcare IT leaders are ready to turn to the cloud in order to support population health management and accountable care organization development
August 28, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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In 2003, Peter Anderson, M.D., a primary care physician in practice for more than 20 years at the time, says he hated medicine after failure to use the practice’s EHR appropriately resulted in an $80,000 deficit. Anderson knew he was drowning, and had to find a way to fall back in love with medicine. It was at that time when Anderson decided to use the team care concept in his office, a strategy that completely turned his practice and his life around.
July 29, 2013 Mark Hagland
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Compared with some industries, mobile computing came late to healthcare. But now, the revolution is accelerating—both on the clinician end-user side, and in the arena of clinician-patient communications and care management. How are IT leaders engaging clinicians and helping clinicians engage patients, in the emerging healthcare? CIOs and CMIOs are figuring out how to help their organizations survive--and thrive--in the emerging world of mobility.
July 21, 2013 Mark Hagland
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The number of patient care organizations across the U.S. in which physician mobility is moving forward is growing daily. Among that throng is the 15-physician Vanguard Medical Group in northeastern New Jersey. In the case of Vanguard, participation in a statewide patient-centered medical home program, and creating its own visiting nurse program, spurred development of a mobile computing strategy.
July 19, 2013 John DeGaspari
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Highmark Health Services, a Pittsburgh-based health insurer, has announced the formation of the Accountable Care Alliance, in collaboration with health care providers in the Allegheny Health Network (AHN), which it maintains will improve the coordination of care and lower health care costs.
July 11, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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UnitedHealthcare, the Minnetonka, Minn.-based health insurer, has announced that it expects to more than double its number of accountable care health plan contracts in the next five years.
July 10, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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Network Health, a nonprofit health plan that delivers health coverage to more than 215,000 Massachusetts residents, has received a $75,000 grant to implement a partnership with Brockton Neighborhood Health Center (BNHC) on the Massachusetts Health Information Highway (Mass HIway), the statewide HIE network. The Massachusetts Technology Collaborative’s MeHI has awarded the grant to make the connection possible.
June 20, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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According to the survey of physicians and healthcare professionals, more than half (53 percent) of respondents currently participate in an accountable care organization (ACO), patient-centered medical home (PCMH), or other risk-based or shared savings programs.
March 14, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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On March 13 in Philadelphia, David Nash, M.D., founder of the first U.S. academic institution focused on population health, establishing the Jefferson School of Population Health at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, headed the 13th Population Health Colloquium, with its goal to provide forward thinking and meaningful continuing education for healthcare professionals to help prepare them to find solutions to the myriad challenges that healthcare currently faces.
