September 11, 2013 John DeGaspari
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Medical identity fraud has increased nearly 20 percent compared to the year before in the U.S., affecting an estimated 1.84 victims and having a total out-of-pocket medical costs incurred by medical identity theft victims to be $12.3 billion. Those are takeaways of the 2013 Survey on Medical Identity Theft, an annual survey now in its fourth year, which was released yesterday by the Ponemon Institute LLC, Traverse City, Mich., and sponsored by Portland, Ore.-base ID Experts. The report’s release roughly coincided with the launch (on August 29) of the Medical Identity Fraud Alliance (MIFA), an industry group formed to raise public awareness and to come up with potential ways to address the medical identity theft.
September 11, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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Health IT costs are on the rise as physician practices continue to adopt and optimize electronic health records (EHRs), according to a recent cost survey report published by the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA).
September 11, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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Jonathan Teich, M.D., is in a unique position to comment on the intersection of IT and physician workflow. In this Q&A with HCI’s Associate Editor, Gabriel Perna, Dr. Teich shares his thoughts on health IT, specifically clinical decision support (CDS) systems, and how they fit into the workflow of a clinician.
September 11, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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The Wilmington, N.C.-based New Hanover Regional Medical Center (NHRMC) has formed Physician Quality Partners, a clinically integrated network (CIN)/accountable care organization (ACO) aimed to provide physicians access to the collaborative tools they will need to succeed in the new health care environment.
September 11, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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A Middletown, Ct.-based primary care system, Community Health Center Inc., is expanding its telehealth program for underserved patients across state lines to Delaware, the provider announced this week.
September 11, 2013 Mark Hagland
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Fast on the heels of an announcement by the ONC that the agency was launching a patient matching initiative, CHIME’s Russ Branzell gave HCI’s Mark Hagland an industry-first interview regarding CHIME’s praise for ONC’s announcement, and CHIME’s response to that announcement.
September 11, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has announced a collaborative patient matching initiative, a representative for the government agency announced in a blog post this week.
September 10, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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While the timing of Stage 2 of meaningful use has been a hot topic lately, there are tools and technology to help providers automate meaningful use so that practices of all sizes are ready for this huge next step. George Washington Medical Faculty Associates has found one solution to help them with the tedious tasks involved with meaningful use reporting.
September 10, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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Patients are educating themselves online, spending 52 hours annually looking for health information on the web and some of this comes from physician influence, reveals a recent survey.
September 10, 2013 Jim Beinlich
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Systems that read and manage outside CDs containing medical image studies (X-Ray, CT, Ultrasound, etc.) are a real benefit to healthcare users who have been challenged with issues associated with the CDs patients bring along with them to hospital and office visits. Many times CDs are difficult to handle because the imaging systems used to burn the CDs are from different manufacturers or use different software to write to the CD; and some require different readers.
