September 17, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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Meaningful use (MU) Stage 2 requirements are accelerating electronic health record (EHR)-specific patient portal adoption at an increasing rate, according to a new report from the Orem, Utah-based research and consulting firm, KLAS Research.
September 17, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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In today’s healthcare, the doctor-patient relationship is not what it used to be—studies show that doctors spend more time with their computers than their patients. But the relationship doesn’t have to become extinct; in an interesting twist, technology could actually help restore the fading marriage.
September 17, 2013 David Raths
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At Consumer Health IT Summit, Tom Delbanco, M.D., of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center talked about the patient safety potential of patient and family participation in reading and creating care team's notes.
September 16, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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The Office for the National Coordinator (ONC) has announced the winners of its Blue Button Co-Design Challenge this week at the Consumer Health IT Summit, which is a daylong event held during the annual Health IT Week.
September 16, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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Supporting the growing trend toward patient engagement, a recent survey from the N.Y.-based health IT services vendor Accenture found that many U.S. consumers (41 percent) would be willing to switch doctors to gain online access to their own electronic medical records (EMR).
September 13, 2013 John DeGaspari
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Identity theft is a serious crime that can destroy the credit rating of victims and take years to set straight. A growing subset of the crime is medical identity theft, the subject of 2013 Survey on Medical Identity Theft, a report released by the Ponemon Institute this week; all of the survey’s respondents have experienced some form of medical identity theft.
September 10, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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Patients are educating themselves online, spending 52 hours annually looking for health information on the web and some of this comes from physician influence, reveals a recent survey.
September 10, 2013 David Raths
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Shared decision making is a burgeoning field involving a combination of personal interaction and digital technology. This year's Third Annual Shared Decision Making Summit, to be held Sept. 19-20 in Boston, will feature case studies of organizations that are enhancing outcomes with shared decision making.
August 28, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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As healthcare policy leaders wade into the thicket of issues confronting CIOs, one thing is clear: each issue has its own set of competing challenges, and there are no simple solutions. Healthcare Informatics Associate Editor Gabriel Perna recently spoke with seven industry insiders and leaders to attempt to unfurl the challenges that surround each regulatory issue and looked to answer that pervasive question: which one should come first?
August 27, 2013 John DeGaspari
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In June of this year, the Government Employee Health Association (GEHA), Independence, Mo., the nation’s second-largest health plan for civilian federal employees and retirees, enrolled 1,500 members in a virtual weight loss management program that it says was successful with nearly 80 percent of participants in 2012. That’s a significant milestone, because it demonstrates that a Web-based technology can be an effective and relatively low-cost way for individuals to lower their health risks.
August 23, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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A recent law passed in North Carolina shows that pricing transparency in healthcare has reached the tipping point. No one, not even the most cynical of observers, can ignore the momentum this movement has gained.
August 20, 2013 John DeGaspari
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Emergency departments are not meeting the needs of senior citizens, according to a international study published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine.
