February 9, 2013 Mark Hagland
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Jeff Loughlin, project director at the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative and executive director of the Regional Extension Center of New Hampshire, shares his perspectives on the current state of EHR adoption among medical groups-and the lessons that have been learned by leaders of the regional extension centers.
December 11, 2012 Mark Hagland
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As Rebecca Grant, director of imaging services at the 625-bed Huntington Hospital, and her colleagues moved through the process of selecting a new PACS vendor, interoperability was the most important factor in their decision-making. Grant explains the various elements in a complex informatics imaging environment, and the factors that influenced her and her colleagues' important decision in this critical area.
November 26, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Meeting this morning during RSNA 2012 with executives from the Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare, one thing was clear: those patient care organizations with an imaging informatics strategy—perhaps almost any imaging informatics strategy??—are already light years ahead of their peer organizations whose senior executives have no such strategy.
October 30, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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QuantiaMD, a provider of an online physician community platform, has closed a $12 million expansion round from investor Fuse Capital, the company announced. The company says the money will be used to meet a demand from payers and health systems that are attempting to engage and align physicians to achieve various quality-of-care objectives, both federal and otherwise.
October 17, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Health information exchange leaders from both coasts describe groundbreaking progress on numerous fronts, at the CHIME12 Fall CIO Forum in Palm Springs. Standards and the CCD are big areas of focus.
September 21, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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Imaging was largely absent in Stage 1 meaningful use, but with new requirements in Stage 2 to include viewing of image data within the EHR, there will likely be a new focus to develop enterprise imaging strategies and expand interoperability solutions. The picture in this space isn’t as clear as some might hope, but there are pioneering organizations nonetheless making headway to allow anytime, anywhere access to diagnostic images.
September 19, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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With new imaging requirements in Stage 2 meaningful use, IT departments are going to have to start the arduous task of integrating imaging into clinical workflows. It's apt that more organizations will be following a path similar to UPMC, which is successfully federating multiple imaging archives into a more "patient-centric" view, where all images are pulled together in one federated diagnostic image repository, called SingleView.
August 29, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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After the CMS released the proposed rule for Stage 2 of meaningful use, it received a ton of pushback from providers on the patient engagement requirement, which asked for 10 percent of patients look at their data, download it, or transmit it to others through a portal. While it lowered the threshold by five percent, the point has been reinforced. Whether you like the patient engagement requirement or not, it’s time to push forward.
August 6, 2012
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Integrated healthcare provider Kaiser Permanente has announced that its personal health record My Health Manager has reached a total of four million users, representing 63 percent of its eligible membership. Overall, users signed onto the PHR more than 100 million times in the last year alone, with 29.7 million lab results viewed online, 12.2 million emails sent to providers, 10 million prescriptions refilled, and 2.7 million appointments scheduled.
July 26, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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This two-part podcast interview with the CEO of the National eHealth Collaborative, Kate Berry, explores the rising prominence of patient engagement in healthcare. In part 1, Berry and HCI Associate Editor Gabriel Perna discuss why providers and other healthcare entities are suddenly paying attention to patient engagement, and why deploying it effectively remains a mystery to many. She also talks about NeHC’s recent patient engagement summit.
July 25, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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Johns Hopkins is launching a Center for Population Health IT, which will aim to take healthcare and clinical data and use it for a broader, societal, organizational purpose. The ambitious center will use numerous components from the vast healthcare entity. In this exclusive Q&A, Jonathan Weiner, Ph.D, the center’s director, talks with HCI about his plans for the center, some of the initiatives, and its simultaneously launched partnership with various vendors.
July 25, 2012
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The Chicago-based American Medical Association (AMA) has launched a new online community aimed at helping physicians improve their contracting strategies in a rapidly evolving healthcare system. The community, the Cutting-edge Contracting Group, would allow physicians, practice staff, and contract experts to connect and share tips, know-how and resources about contracting with managed care organizations.
