September 13, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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In honor of National Health IT week, the National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) recently hosted a webinar about the challenges and successes of implementing health IT in rural and underserved communities. The webinar featured insights from Chantal Worzala, director of policy for the American Hospital Association (AHA), and Earle Rugg, CEO of the Rural Health IT Corporation. One of the main themes was the issue of averting a digital divide between rural and urban communities, something that has already begun.
September 12, 2012
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a final rule that will enable spectrum for Medical Body Area Networks (MBANs). MBANs are low-power wideband networks consisting of multiple body-worn sensors that transmit a variety of patient data to a control device. MBAN devices aim to free patients from cumbersome cables that tether them to their hospital bed. The FCC will allow for the allocation of 40 MHz of spectrum for the development of MBAN devices in the 2360–2400 MHz band.
September 11, 2012 Pete Rivera
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You cannot make a blanket policy to say that the coding software will be used exclusively. This is like telling a pilot to trust their instruments, although the ground is getting closer and closer.
September 5, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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Everywhere I turn lately, I see some kind of new patient engagement-centered platform being touted by vendors, providers, and/or payers. A recent conversation I had with Richard Ferrans, M.D., vice president and chief medical officer at Presence Health, helped open my eyes as to why everyone wants to get in on the patient engagement bandwagon.
August 10, 2012
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According to a study from researchers at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, medical group practices can reduce costs for patients with diabetes by investing in improved quality of care.
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.
July 24, 2012 Jeff Smith, Assistant Director of Advocacy at CHIME
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About 55 percent of physicians have adopted an EHR according to the 2011 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) of office-based providers conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
July 23, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Johnanne Ross, PharmD, director of pharmacy IT automation at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) health system, based in Pittsburgh, Pa., has spent more than 12 years participating in informatics work. Ross spoke recently about the latest developments in her work at UPMC and her perspectives on what CIOs, CMIOs, and other healthcare IT leaders should be doing right now around pharmacy informatics.
July 19, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Why NYU Langone Medical Center’s actions in the face of the Rory Staunton tragedy serve as a model for sentinel-event response industry-wide, and what all this means for clinicians, clinician leaders, and informaticists in every patient care organization in the country
July 19, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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Edward Rippel, M.D., internist at the Hamden, Conn.-based Quinnipiac Internal Medicine P.C., completed a 12-year journey last year when he became the first solo practitioner in the state of Connecticut to be recognized by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) as a patient-centered medical home (PCMH). In this exclusive interview, he explains how he did, the benefits he has seen from his EHR, and why it's necessary for other solo providers to make an investment.
July 5, 2012 David Raths
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Stage 3 of meaningful use may seem a long way off. After all, the Stage 2 final rule has yet to be released. Yet for members of the Meaningful Use Work Group of the federal Health IT Policy Committee, deadlines are fast approaching. They are working to make initial Stage 3 recommendations by Aug. 1, so that a Request for Comment can by issued in November and final recommendations can be published by May 2013.
July 2, 2012 Mark Hagland
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At a time when population health is becoming more and more prominent as an issue, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has developed yet one more additional approach to leveraging existing church-based health efforts to better track and manager parishioners’ blood pressure.
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