February 21, 2011 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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In efforts to produce cost savings and better care, the medical home model will likely create difficulties in patient-physician communication, as well as outside the walls of the organization
February 21, 2011 John DeGaspari
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Barry Chaiken, M.D., chief medical officer of DocsNetwork, Ltd., and moderator for the HIMSS11 session, Achieving Meaningful Use: From Theory to Practice, on Sunday, is confident that meaningful use will transform healthcare. “The time is now and it is going to happen,” he said. Meaningful use s the tool that will make transformation happen, he said. “We are still figuring out how it is going to happen,” he said.
February 9, 2011 James L. Holly, M.D.
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The only care which benefits a patient is the care which they can access. Though I know all there is to know about treating a complex medical
January 31, 2011 John Degaspari
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James L. Holly, M.D. A dozen years before the term meaningful use entered the healthcare lexicon in relation to electronic health records,
December 16, 2010
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I recently had an opportunity to interview James L. Holly, M.D., CEO and one of the founding partners of Southeast Medical Associates LLP, (SETMA), a multi-specialty clinic located in Beaumont, Texas that is an early adopter of electronic health records. His vision, and the accomplishments of his organization on EHR, hit home for me the huge potential of EHR to improve patient care.
December 2, 2010 David Raths
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One of the focal points of health reform is improving transitions in care settings, particularly to the home. Alternative reimbursement and care delivery models such as accountable care organizations will require more patient self-management tools and remote monitoring devices. In a Nov. 30 webinar, Lynne Dunbrack, program director for research firm IDC Health Insights Framingham, Mass., described how the legislative impact of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is combining with other market drivers such as the increase in the incidence of chronic disease and provider staffing shortages to create new opportunities for efforts at home monitoring, e-visits and telemedicine.
November 28, 2010 Mark Hagland
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The Cambridge, Mass.-based New England Healthcare Institute (NEHI) recently released an issue brief, “From Evidence to Practice: Making CER Findings Work for Providers and Patients,” which detailed the hurdles and policy choices facing leaders in comparative effectiveness research, in their efforts to widely disseminate comparative effectiveness research (CER) findings. Given the provisions in the federal healthcare reform legislation, called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), passed by Congress and signed by President Obama in March, that will establish the creation of a federal Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to identify research priorities and conduct research comparing the clinical effectiveness of medical treatments, NEHI's issue brief certainly provides a timely look at the challenges ahead in this dynamic area.
November 28, 2010 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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Each year, HIMSS recognizes exceptional achievement in healthcare IT implementation, through its Nicholas E. Davies Award of Excellence. Find out what the healthcare IT leaders at Sentara Health System, Nemours Health System, and Miramont Family Medicine have learned on their path to clinical and operational transformation, and the lessons they have to share with the industry.
November 16, 2010 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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In early July, Palmetto Physician Connections, a medical home network of physicians, formed with the goal of coordinating better care at a lower cost for South Carolina’s Medicaid population. According to Palmetto’s Medical Director and family physician Gerald Harmon, M.D., his goal is to recruit 2,000 OB/GYNs, internists, family physicians, and pediatricians by 2011 Q1 to bolster the around 200 providers currently in the Palmetto network.
October 19, 2010 Mark Hagland
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Indeed, says the report, between now and 2015, the year after some of the most important health insurance reforms are scheduled to take effect, the shortage of doctors across all specialties will quadruple. The association says its previous estimate of a nationwide shortage of 39,600 physicians will more likely approach a shortage of 63,000, with a shortage of 33,100 physicians in such specialties as cardiology, oncology, and emergency medicine.
August 5, 2010 David Raths
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The patient-centered medical home is an emerging trend in the effort to provide comprehensive primary care. But how has the current generation of electronic health records (EHRs) supported (or hindered) care coordination efforts such as medical home pilot projects, and what are the implications for future meaningful use requirements?
July 28, 2010 Mark Hagland
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David Cochran, M.D., who has spent decades in patient care and healthcare management, became president and CEO of Montpelier-based Vermont Information Technology Leaders (VITL) in July 2009. The organization’s mission is responsible for supporting the deployment of electronic health records throughout Vermont in support of the state’s ambitious healthcare reform and population health initiatives. Further, VITL manages Vermont’s statewide health information exchange (HIE). Cochran spoke recently with HCI Editor-in-Chief Mark Hagland about his work at VITL. Below are excerpts from that interview.
