HHS: HIEs crucial to value-based care
HHS and ONC have been pushing states and healthcare system stakeholders to improve delivery systems and information sharing. (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog)
Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - June 15, 2021 Category: Information Technology Tags: Public Policy Source Type: blogs
Romney predicts how Clinton, Cruz, Rubio, Sanders and Trump would alter ACA if elected
Whereas a Democrat would tweak Obamacare while a Republican would probably venture down a new path that relies on tax credits, the former Mass. Governor and presidential nominee said at HIMSS16. (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog)
Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - June 15, 2021 Category: Information Technology Tags: Public Policy Source Type: blogs
49 HIT vendors sign data access pledge
The Patient Safety Movement Foundation intends to foster a marketplace of data analytics to encourage novel uses of health data that will improve patient safety and reduce preventable deaths. (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog)
Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - June 15, 2021 Category: Information Technology Tags: Public Policy Source Type: blogs
Misunderstandings and musings on sequela encounters under ICD-10
It appears that for now one of the most confusing parts about ICD-10 coding is specifying the encounter that the physician has with a patient. (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog)
Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - June 15, 2021 Category: Information Technology Tags: Public Policy Source Type: blogs
Can Philadelphia transform itself into a national center for health IT innovation?
Philadelphia has taken steps to become a national leader for healthcare IT innovation, with a number of large-scale development projects taking shape. (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog)
Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - June 15, 2021 Category: Information Technology Tags: Public Policy Source Type: blogs
Hackers Swarm to Mobile Devices
(SPONSORED) As IT struggles to get out in front of enterprise security risks, mobile devices are adding another wrinkle to defense plans as they become an increasingly active attack vector. (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog)
Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - June 15, 2021 Category: Information Technology Tags: Core Technologies, Security Source Type: blogs
The race to cybersecurity and the ensuing privacy debate
A new law aims to reduce cybercrime but, at the same time, raises the old argument about how much is too much when it comes to personal privacy. (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog)
Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - June 15, 2021 Category: Information Technology Tags: Public Policy Source Type: blogs
Penn Medicine instills ‘value chain’ for designing medicine to go mobile
One of the major benefits of working in healthcare technology at an academic medical center is the plethora of smart, engaged faculty and staff that believe in the value of incorporating mobile health (mHealth) strategies and tools for our patients, employees and partners. In fact, they seem to want to develop and deploy new mobile apps at a dizzying pace. (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog)
Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - June 15, 2021 Category: Information Technology Tags: Core Technologies, Telehealth Source Type: blogs
Bumps along the rural road: using telemedicine to treat chronic disease in rural communities
Despite the widely publicized successes of the Affordable Care Act, many rural Americans were forgotten by health care reform. Telemedicine is a critical tool for transitioning to value-based treatments, and to better serving rural communities. (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog)
Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - June 15, 2021 Category: Information Technology Tags: Telehealth, Population and Public Health, Care, Core Technologies Source Type: blogs
ZDoggMD spoofs archaic physician culture and EHRs in new Doc Vader videos
The hospitalist known by many as the satiric ZDoggMD imagined himself as Lord Vader and produced a trilogy of humorous videos featuring “Doc Vader” dealing with the often-frustrating problems of communicating his needs within a hospital.
The videos’ titles spoof the mega-popular Star Wars films.
Here ' s “Doc Vader, Episode I: The Pager Menace. " (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog)
Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - June 15, 2021 Category: Information Technology Tags: EHR, Core Technologies Source Type: blogs
ICD-10: 4 coding mistakes to avoid
Six months in and coders are encountering issues. Let ' s take a quick look. (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog)
Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - June 15, 2021 Category: Information Technology Tags: Public Policy Source Type: blogs
Apple vs. FBI and Cybersecurity Act of 2015: 3 questions to ask before sharing data
Both the Cybersecurity Act of 2015 and the Apple-FBI conflict have catapulted the privacy-security debate into headlines. Here ' s a look at what to know now about those. (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog)
Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - June 15, 2021 Category: Information Technology Tags: Public Policy Source Type: blogs
Apple's CareKit as an enabler for patient-generated healthcare data
" We believe that mobile devices such as iPhones will become the predominant means by which patients interact with BIDMC, " says Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center CIO John Halamka, MD. " Your phone will be the repository of your medical record. " (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog)
Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - June 15, 2021 Category: Information Technology Tags: Core Technologies, Patient Access, Telehealth Source Type: blogs
Cinderblocks 3 is coming!!!
Cinderblocks 3: The Partnership with Patients Continues is an art and medical conference that will be held in Grantsville, MD at Penn Alps Resturant and Little Crossings by The Cornucopia Caf é May 19-21, 2016. (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog)
Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - June 15, 2021 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
What healthcare can learn from retail
At a time when providers are being challenged to become more innovative, it seems reasonable to think one good place to look for ideas or inspiration might be the retailers who ' ve made healthcare innovation a core of their business strategies. (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog)
Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - June 15, 2021 Category: Information Technology Tags: Public Policy Source Type: blogs
