Complimentary Issue of Accountable Care News
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Source: e-CareManagement - February 9, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) Source Type: blogs
Complimentary Webinar — An Impending Marriage: Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and Care Management Software
Webinar Title: An Impending Marriage: Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and Care Management Software The presentation will be geared at practicing clinical case managers in health plans, hospitals, disease management companies, and similar organizations: Describe market forces driving integration of EHRs and care management software. Review care management software survey data and stimulus funding for EHR adoption. […]
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Source: e-CareManagement - February 2, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Care Providers & Care Coordination EHRs/PHRs Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) care management disease management health plan hospital Source Type: blogs
Crowdsourcing the Future: Health 2.0 and HIPAA
Deven McGraw is the Director of the Health Privacy Project at the Center for Democracy & Technology. The Health 2.0 movement has seen incredible growth recently, with new tools and services continuously being released. Of course, Health 2.0 developers face a number of challenges when it comes to getting providers and patients to adopt new […]
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Source: e-CareManagement - January 27, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Guest Posts Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) health 2.0 HIPAA privacy Source Type: blogs
Comments to ONC: PCAST HIT Report Becomes a Political Piñata
The PCAST Report on Health IT has become a political piñata. Early Feedback on PCAST Like many of my colleagues, I was taken aback by the release of the Report in early December 2010 — I didn’t know quite what to make of it. Response in the first week of release was: Limited. The first commentaries were primarily by technical and/or clinical […]
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Source: e-CareManagement - January 23, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: EHRs/PHRs Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) ASTM CCR clinical groupware eHealth EMR HIMSS HITSP hospital interoperability meaningful use privacy Source Type: blogs
Updates on Proposed Stage 2 and 3 Meaningful Use Criteria
The Health IT Policy Committee has published proposed Stage 2 and 3 Meaningful Use Recommendations and they’re open for public comment until February 25. I’ll share a couple of particularly useful and well written analyses and commentaries by colleagues. Health IT guru and thought leader Dr. John Halamka writes about The Proposed Stage 2 and 3 […]
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Source: e-CareManagement - January 19, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: EHRs/PHRs Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) care coordination care management HIE HITECH hospital meaningful use primary care Source Type: blogs
Will ACO IT Models Be Walled Gardens or Open Platforms?
Will ACO (accountable care organization) IT models be walled gardens or open platforms? i.e., will ACO IT platforms focus on exchanging information within the provider network of the ACO, or will they also be able to exchange information with providers outside the ACO network? (If the question still isn’t clear, click here for a further explanation.). One POV: ACO’s […]
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Source: e-CareManagement - December 16, 2010 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Care Providers & Care Coordination Collaborative Care Management Networks Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) accountable care organization ACO business model EHR health IT HIE HIT meaningful use medical home platform Source Type: blogs
HITPC Meaningful Use Workgroup Offers First Draft of HITECH Stage 2 & 3 Objectives
At the December 13 meeting of the HITPC (Health IT Policy Committee), the MU (Meaningful Use) Workgroup proposed a first draft of HITECH Stage 2 and 3 objectives. A full list of objectives for Stages 1, 2 & 3 is available in the PowerPoint presented to HITPC. The proposed objectives contain a mix of items […]
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Source: e-CareManagement - December 15, 2010 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: EHRs/PHRs Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) care coordination HIT HITECH meaningful use Source Type: blogs
Summarizing Early PCAST HIT Critiques: “Brilliant, but they didn’t do all their technical homework.”
Last week PCAST (The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology) issued a major report — “Realizing the Full Potential of Health Information Technology to Improve Healthcare for Americans: The Path Forward”. The reviews are filtering in and I’m seeing two major themes: The vision is on target: “extraordinary”, “breathtakingly innovative”. These guys didn’t […]
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Source: e-CareManagement - December 13, 2010 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: EHRs/PHRs Health Policy/Reform Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) health IT HIMSS HIT HITECH meaningful use PCAST Source Type: blogs
MGH Medicare Disease/Care Management Demo Shows Home Run Results!
Medicare has (finally) recently released a report showing home run results for a disease/care management demonstration project! Evaluation of Medicare Care Management for High Cost Beneficiaries (CMHCB) Demonstration: Massachusetts General Hospital and Massachusetts General Physicians Organization (MGH) Remind Me Again About the CMHCB Medicare Demo… The CMHCB started in 2005. My recollection is that the […]
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Source: e-CareManagement - December 3, 2010 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Care Providers & Care Coordination Medicare/Care Coordination care management CMHCB disease management eHealth HIE hospital Medicare DM Medicare Health Support primary care readmission Source Type: blogs
Things we are grateful for this year
This post was written by Alexandra Drane and the Engage With Grace team. To learn more please go to www.engagewithgrace.org. For three years running now, many of us bloggers have participated in what we’ve called a “blog rally” to promote Engage With Grace – a movement aimed at making sure all of us understand, communicate, […]
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Source: e-CareManagement - November 24, 2010 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Guest Posts eHealth Source Type: blogs
Is Physician EHR Adoption Getting Past the Penguin Problem?
Remember the penguin problem described by economists? No one moves unless everyone moves, so no one moves. Overcoming the penguin problem has a lot to do with creating expectations. A recent writing by Dr. James O’Connor in Physician Practice expresses a voice from the physician community that I’ve never heard before. His essay is entitled “Meaningful Use — […]
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Source: e-CareManagement - November 21, 2010 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: EHRs/PHRs Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) care management certification HIE HITECH hospital meaningful use Medicare network effect penguin problem Source Type: blogs
Is “CMS Innovation Center” an Oxymoron?
A press release earlier this week announced the new CMS Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. If you went to their Twitter feed today, here’s what you’d see: This struck me as a great pictorial representation of the broader challenges the CMS Innovation Center faces: They’ve kinda sorta figured out there’s a conversation going on out there […]
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Source: e-CareManagement - November 18, 2010 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Health Policy/Reform Medicare/Care Coordination CMI CMS health reform Source Type: blogs
Testing Technology vs. Enabling a System of Chronic Care – Results of the NIH Tele-HF Trial
by Randy Williams, MD FACC, CEO of Pharos Innovations The results from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-sponsored Tele-HF trial are in, and the findings are worth considering . The results are counter to most of the findings of other studies examining telemonitoring for heart failure and at face value are disappointing to us, and the […]
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Source: e-CareManagement - November 16, 2010 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Guest Posts Remote Patient Monitoring care management CHF HIE hospital platform readmission readmission avoidance telehealth Source Type: blogs
