Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH)

Health Check-Based Preventive Care: the Global Implications of a European Study

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.

INDUSTRY-FIRST INTERVIEW: CHIME’s Branzell on ONC’s New Patient-Matching Initiative Launch

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.

Simplifying Meaningful Use Reporting at George Washington Medical Faculty Associates

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.

Industry-First Interview: Are Healthcare Leaders Ready to Trust the Cloud? One New Study Says Yes

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

Using EHRs Appropriately: A Team-Based Approach to Clinical Care

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.

The Doctor Is In (and Wants to Get Online)

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.

Advancing Mobile Computing: How One New Jersey Group Has Moved Forward

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.

Highmark Health Services forms 'Accountable Care Alliance' in Western Pennsylvania

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.

UnitedHealthcare to Double ACO Contracts to $50 Billion by 2017

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.

MeHI Awards $75K Grant for HIE Expansion

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.

More Than Half of Physicians Participate in ACOs, PCMHs, Survey Says

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.

Industry Luminary David Nash Talks About the Next Frontier in Healthcare at Population Health Colloquium

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.
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