September 17, 2013 Mark Hagland
blog
In an era in which commemorative weeks and months are everywhere and happening during any given week, does it make sense to celebrate something like the “National Health IT Week”? Actually, it does. Here’s why…
September 17, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
news
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
news
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors has approved 71 awards, totaling more than $114 million over three years, to fund comparative clinical effectiveness research designed to answer questions most important to patients and those who care for them.
September 17, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
article
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
blog
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
news
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
news
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) has announced grants of nearly $5.3 million to expand the rural health IT workforce and to use telehealth to improve mental health services for veterans in rural areas.
September 16, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
news
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 16, 2013 Jeff Smith, Director of Public Policy at CHIME
article
Sept. 16-20 marks the 8th Annual National Health IT Week (http://www.healthitweek.org/). During NHIT Week, hundreds of health IT stakeholders fly to Washington, DC to advocate for better health IT-related policies. Stakeholders that cannot come to DC for are encouraged to host an event locally at the state our regional level.
September 16, 2013 David Raths
blog
Dr. James Barr, chief medical director for Optimus Healthcare Partners and medical director of the Atlantic Health Systems ACO, talked about how he transformed his own family practice but also about how the ACO model and its analytics infrastructure can engage physicians in a high-performance network.
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