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Mobility in Nursing: An Ongoing Evolution

July 24, 2012     Gabriel Perna
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Across the country, providers are using mobile solutions to enhance nurses’ ability to take care of patients at the point of care, whether that’s through advanced communications, direct messaging, RFID barcode scanning, medication reconciliation, or some other means. It’s a recognition that nurses, as the glue of a provider setting, need to be armed with the latest technology.

HHS Using mHealth, Online Training to Fight HIV/AIDS

July 24, 2012    
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At a recent conference on AIDS, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced new government initiatives aimed at fighting the HIV/AIDS epidemic, including one that involves the use of mobile health (mHealth). The mHealth initiative has HHS in partnership with the MAC AIDS Fund, launching a mobile texting pilot program called UCARE4LIFE to help patients get important reminders and tips for managing their disease.

HFMA Live: A PCMH Model

June 27, 2012     John DeGaspari
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Provider organizations have the opportunity and responsibility to act today to improve care, according to James G. Lee, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Adventist Healthcare, Rockville, Md. In 2009, the health system started a primary care medical home pilot system for its employees.

IHE Seeks Comment on mHealth Implementation Guide

June 19, 2012    
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Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) International, an initiative led by healthcare professionals to improve the way computer systems in the industry share information, has announced that its mobile health (mHealth) implementation guide, the Mobile Access to Health Documents (“MHD”) profile has been released for public comment. This guide is available for public comment from IHE.

VA Rolling Out Patient Simulation Nationally

June 12, 2012    
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The Department of Veterns of Affairs (VA) has awarded a contract to the Chadds Ford, Penn.-based Decision Simulation, a vendor that creates patient simulation solutions, to license the technology across an enterprise level. Already having used the Decision Simulation’s DecisionSim software for 43,000 VHA employees, the new license extends the technology to more than 300,000 employees from all VA agencies, including the VHA and the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA).

Premier Launches Virtual Healthcare Community

June 7, 2012    
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Premier Healthcare Alliance, a performance improvement alliance of more than 2,600 U.S. hospitals and 84,000-plus other healthcare sites, is launching a virtual healthcare community. The community, PremierConnect, will connect to more than 100,000 clinicians, supply chain leaders, hospital executives, and other healthcare providers nationwide, allowing them to interact as one in communities of common interest.

Patient Engagement’s (Not So) Secret Ingredient

April 30, 2012     Gabriel Perna
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When it comes to patient engagement, one developer has realized many of the current platforms lack an essential element: physician involvement. Steven D. Freedman, M.D. and and Camilla Martin, M.D., from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, who are working on their own patient engagement platform, says input from the actual physicians can be a critical missing element in the care-coordination process.

A Potential Passport for Care Coordination

April 27, 2012     Gabriel Perna
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Steven D. Freedman, M.D. and others at Beth Israel Deaconess are trying to succeed in patient engagement where others have failed with the Digital Passport to Trust, an online medical dashboard, currently in development, aimed at creating a constant two-way communication platform for physicians and providers. The Digital Passport to Trust dashboard will aim to create a care plan that is easily accessed by patients and providers, with an easy-to-understand, mapped out step-by-step, week-to-week guidance plan.

Survey: Physician Compensation Evolving Thanks to Nonclinical Demands

April 25, 2012    
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As physicians’ role changes in the evolving healthcare landscape, their added complex administrative roles has been increasingly reflective in their compensation according to a recent study from the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA). The study, “Medical Directorship and On-Call Compensation Survey: 2012 Report Based on 2011 Data,” provides benchmark information that is reflective of the primary compensation drivers for directorship activities.

Wiring Up Our Home

April 23, 2012     Mark Hagland
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The patient-centered medical home concept is moving forward nationwide, with countless variations on a general theme, along with some universals. Healthcare and healthcare IT leaders agree: wiring up this home means putting all the strategic, process, and technology pieces together for success.

Facebook, Social Media and Patient Engagement

February 2, 2012     John DeGaspari
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One of the biggest signs of how important social media is to the nation’s social (and business) fabric can be found in today’s headlines: Facebook Inc.’s filing of an initial public offering that could raise as much as $10 billon when it begins selling shares this spring, according to The Wall Street Journal. The Journal article says the IPO could raise the value of the social network between $75 billion and $100 billion. Also noteworthy is the social network’s membership, with 845 million users globally, up 39 percent from the year before. “In just eight years, Facebook has the world’s social bazaar, where friends gossip, play games and swap 250 million photos per day,” the Journal article says. It might also have added that that Facebook, and social networks in general, is changing the way many patients are becoming engaged with their own healthcare.

Getting the Message, Securely

January 25, 2012     John DeGaspari
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Secure messaging is of critical interest to physicians in how they communicate with each other and with their patients. CIOs and other healthcare IT leaders speak about what they are hearing from their clinicians, and what they are doing to meet their requirements.
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