EHR Insight 2015 Past Events
Category Archives: Primary care physicians
Hospital leaders: I’m most thankful for … FierceHealthcare’s Advisory Board Share their Thanksgiving Notes
As Frank Byrne, president of St. Mary’s Hospital in Madison, Wis., recently noted, healthcare doesn’t do very good job of recognition, even though there is much to celebrate. With the industry seeing new innovations, technology and healthcare delivery models, we … Continue reading
EHRs Reduce Medical Errors Among HIV Patients.
Electronic health records reduced medical errors in hospitalized HIV patients from 16 percent to 1.1 percent, a 93 percent reduction, according to three studies presented at the ID Week conference in San Diego last week and reported by Medpage Today. HIV patients admitted to the hospital … Continue reading
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More than 300 Vendors Share Ambulatory-care EHR Market.
Remember those old sword-and-sandal historical epics, with their “cast of thousands” hacking and clubbing at each other in hand-to-hand combat? To the hordes of vendors of electronic health-record systems designed for office-based physicians, those struggles may seem like halcyon days. … Continue reading
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Health Insurers Betting on Urgent Care Centers
Margaret Dick Tocknell, for HealthLeaders Media As insurers seek ways to control the price point at the entry level of the healthcare system, health plans such as Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina and Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield … Continue reading
Posted in Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), EHR Adoption, Electronic Health Records, Latino health trend, LISTA Global EHR, meaningful use, mHealth, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), Patient Care, Primary care physicians
Tagged American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, ARRA, Department of Health and Human Services, Dept of HHS office of minority health, Electronic health record, National Latino Alliance on Health Information Technology, NHIT, Regional Extension Center
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Final MU Stage 2 Rules Released
Margaret Dick Tocknell and Scott Mace The final rule for Meaningful Use Stage 2 was released late Thursday afternoon by the Department of Health and Human Services. In a step sure to please many stakeholders, HHS will delay the onset … Continue reading
Posted in EHR Adoption, Electronic Health Records, HIT Implementation, HIT PRO, ICD10, ICD11, Latino health trend, Latino HIT, LISTA Global EHR, LISTA Global EMR, LISTA Global Health IT, meaningful use, mHealth, Mobile Health, National Latino Alliance on Health Information Technology, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), Patient Care, Primary care physicians, Stage 2
Tagged Electronic health record, emr adoption, Health IT, Meaningful Use, stage 2 meaningful use
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6 Lessons from California on Making Telemedicine Policy a Reality
Telemedicine might be on the rise but, as many stakeholder groups have learned, creating changes in policy that will allow patients, providers and payers to use it to its full potential isn’t exactly easy. Stakeholders in California have had some … Continue reading
Healthcare Cloud Market to Hit $5.4 Billion by 2017
The global market for cloud computing in healthcare is expected to reach $5.4 billion by 2017, according to research firm MarketsandMarkets. Last year, the market was valued at $1.7 million with just 4 percent penetration, but it’s expected to grow … Continue reading
Goals of mHealth: Better Relationships and ROI
The burgeoning mHealth field offers healthcare a wealth of opportunities to engage with patients and provide a satisfactory return on investment. But if mobile medical apps are going to stand any chance of survival – with physicians as well as … Continue reading
Top 5 Health Conditions for Telemedicine Treatment
Healthcare IT News spoke with Alex Brisbourne, president and COO of KORE Telematics, a wireless network provider focused on the M2M communications market, regarding these evolving telemedicine opportunities. Brisbourne presented the top five health conditions ripe for treatment — or … Continue reading
National Latino Alliance in HIT 