healthcare: Internet policy
ICD-10 Conversion: Do Or Die
Failure to meet upcoming deadlines could mean major disruptions in claims payments for healthcare organizations.
Healthcare IT Needs More Crazy CIOs
The IT leaders who make a difference sometimes break the rules, but their vision and courage drive results for the customers who matter: patients.
The Brave New World Of Enterprise Data Warehouses
Mid-size hospitals know how to analyze their financial, operational, and clinical data. But to survive in the coming pay-for-performance world,...
IT Tools Help Patients Cut Prescription, Exam Costs
Change Healthcare provides companies' employees with a Web portal, data analytics, personalized text messages, and email alerts to help them find...
Is Personalized Medicine In Your Future?
Proponents say the marriage of health IT and individualized therapy will revolutionize health care. The jury is still out.
Rhode Island Thinks Big About Health IT
Meet Rhode Island Quality Institute's CIO and see why Medicare thinks other states could learn from his big ideas.
Why Personal Health Records Have Flopped
It's not a security, privacy, or data-sharing problem. It's a patient problem.
Is 2012 The Year Of Online Patients?
Meaningful Use programs, healthcare reform, and the public's love of mobile devices could add up to patients finally getting fully involved in...
Turbocharge Your EHR With Additional Data Sources
Chances are your clinical information systems are starved for data. Consider adding EMBASE, Micromedix, and other sources.
Is Your Clinical Database Up to Speed?
If the scientific data going into these repositories is flawed, so are your clinicians' decisions.
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Health IT Factors Into Leapfrog's Hospitals Rankings
February 10, 2012Leapfrog Group's 2011 list of 65 top hospitals in U.S. highlights facilities that use health IT to prevent deadly dosing mistakes.
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Major Telemedicine Roadblock Could Clear With Proposed Bill
February 08, 2012New law would set up national credentials database so telehealth providers would no longer need multiple state licenses.
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ICD-10 Conversion: Do Or Die
February 06, 2012Failure to meet upcoming deadlines could mean major disruptions in claims payments for healthcare organizations.
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Health IT Managers Say Tablets Can Cause Problems
February 03, 2012IT managers at healthcare organizations say tablets pose challenges for entering data into enterprise healthcare applications and can raise IT...
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Physicians: iPad Not Ready For Clinical Use
February 02, 2012Most doctors still use desktops because iPads lack speech processing capabilities. One expert, however, says iPad EHRs are coming.
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EHR Deployment Costs Approach $30,000 Per Doctor
February 01, 2012Electronic health records move into the mainstream, thanks to Meaningful Use incentives. Most successful practices invest more in training,...
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Stay On Course With ICD10 Plans, AHIMA Urges
February 01, 2012American Health Information Management Association says AMA sends the wrong message in calling for halt to the new billing code implementation.
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Bipartisan Think Tank Tackles Health IT Costs
January 31, 2012Bipartisan Policy Center also challenges government and health organizations to devise uniform specs on which to base patient care by June 2013.
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Pay For Performance: Make Healthcare Metrics Count
January 30, 2012Healthcare providers must collect all sorts of quality and other performance data to meet emerging standards. We delve into the huge task ahead.
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IT Tools Help Patients Cut Prescription, Exam Costs
January 24, 2012Change Healthcare provides companies' employees with a Web portal, data analytics, personalized text messages, and email alerts to help them find...
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