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Clinical registry solution market heads toward $2 billion
Specialty medical societies such as the American College of Cardiology and American College of Surgeons sponsor clinical registries that collect observational data on patients with specific conditions or procedures, such as heart failure or joint replacement. This “real world” evidence helps hospitals improve quality of care, meet state and federal reporting requirements, and achieve pay-for-performance bonuses. Q-Centrix, which provides technology and services that enable hospitals to participate in registries, commissioned Health Business Group to conduct a market sizing and growth study. We found that the ma...
Source: Health Business Blog - September 20, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Announcements Hospitals Research clinical registries Q-Centrix Source Type: blogs

The Impact of HIEs in Natural Disasters – #HITsm Chat Topic
We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 9/22 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Brian Mack (@BFMack) from @GLHC_HIE on the topic of “The Impact of HIEs in Natural Disasters.” On August 29th, 2005, Hurricane Katrina, a category 3 storm, made landfall in SE Louisiana. Torrential rain and sustained winds exceeding 110 MPH quickly overwhelmed the protective measures in place, and the subsequent storm surge breached levies and flooded huge swaths of New Orleans and surrounding areas. Mass-devastation across Louisiana and Mississippi contribu...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 19, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: #HITsm Digital Health Healthcare HealthCare IT Healthcare Social Media HIE #HITsm Topics Brian Mack Source Type: blogs

Let ’s Adapt Health Care Quality Measures To Meet The Needs Of Transgender People
Editor’s Note: This month’s issue of Health Affairs also features a personal essay by a transgender doctor about meeting the health care needs of transgender patients. As transgender people become increasingly visible, so have the challenges they face in our health care system. In response, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) recommends better educating providers on how to competently care for transgender patients, and the Institute of Medicine (now the National Academy of Medicine) recommends collecting gender identity information in electronic medical records and conducting more research around trans...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - September 11, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Landon Hughes and Heather Pearson Tags: Featured Health Equity Population Health Quality Alternative Payment Models equality LGBT health quality measures transgender health Source Type: blogs

New technology might help us become more empathetic to others ’ suffering
Tele-empathy is not being empathetic over the phone. It is not crying in the sad parts of your favorite TV show. It is not beaming empathetic thoughts magically across time and space. No, tele-empathy is a technology. I should rather say, it’s a group of technologies recently being created to increase the empathy of health care providers. “This is rich,” you might say coming from an industry that brought us electronic medical records, automated “help desks,” and robocallers. Sandeep Juhar, a writer for the New York Times, tried out one of these devices, one that simulates the uncontrollable shaking su...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 6, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/shirie-leng" rel="tag" > Shirie Leng, MD < /a > Tags: Tech Hospital-Based Medicine Primary Care Source Type: blogs

Somehow South Australia Seems To Have Got Itself Back Into The News In Health IT Systems.
There have been two different bits of news last week.First we had this.Near half-billion-dollar South Australian hospital records system failing: AMAThe AMA has said a new electronic records system being rolled out in South Australian hospitals is not fit for purpose.By Chris Duckett | August 9, 2017 -- 07:39 GMT (17:39 AEST) | Topic: Innovation A new electronic records system being rolled out across South Australia's public hospitals is possibly not fit for purpose, according to the Australian Medical Association (AMA).The AMA said it sent a questionnaire to almost 250 staff members, including doctors and nurses, asking f...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - August 16, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs

Where Does Radiologist-Referrer Communication Go Wrong?
There ’s room for improvement when it comes to radiologist-referrer communication — according to a newstudy published in theAmerican Journal of Roentgenology. Eugene Won, MD, and Andrew B. Rosenkranz used New York University Langone Medical Center ’s electronic medical records to evaluate informal consultations between referrers and radiologists over the span of three years that were considered incomplete or inaccurate. Their findings resulted in several recommendations to facilitate stronger patient management.According to the research, only 18.7 percent of the physicians ’ notes mentioned the consulting radiolog...
Source: radRounds - August 15, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs

10 reasons why being a doctor is a privilege
I feel privileged to be practicing medicine. Many people consider doctor careers and imagine how great it may be. Is it the right thing for you? Yes there are days of frustration, exhaustion, and utter defeat, but at the end of the day I home and know that I helped at least one person if not two from the 16 I meet. The fact that I alleviated one individual’s anxiety or provided reassurance that they will be okay is a good feeling and one that I must remind myself of. That I am able to work with a team of individuals from medical assistants to nurses and techs to provide care and the fact that I am not stuck behind a desk...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 3, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/dads-dollars-debts" rel="tag" > Dads Dollars Debts, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Heart Primary care Radiology Source Type: blogs

I Have To Say It Is Hard Not To Wonder Just Where This Is Heading!
This appeared last week:Amazon has a secret health tech team called 1492 working on medical records, virtual doc visitsAmazon has a secret skunkworks lab called 1492, dedicated to health care tech.Areas of exploration include a platform for electronic medical record data, telemedicine and health apps for existing devices like the Amazon Echo.Eugene Kim | Christina Farr Thursday, 27 Jul 2017 | 2:30 PM ETAmazon has started a secret skunkworks lab dedicated to opportunities in health care, including new areas such as electronic medical records and telemedicine. Amazon has dubbed this stealth team 1492, which appears to ...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - August 3, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs

ART MEDICAL ’s Technology to Prevent Pneumonia in ICU: Interview with CEO Liron Elia
Pneumonia arising from the use of ventilators and feeding tubes in the ICU are disturbingly common and often life threatening. ART MEDICAL, a company based in Netanya, Israel, has developed technology that may help prevent aspiration pneumonia and ventilator associated pneumonia. We were curious about this development and spoke with Liron Elia, CEO of ART MEDICAL, about the technology, how it works, and what clinicians should expect from it. Medgadget: Aspiration pneumonia and ventilator associated pneumonia are some of the most common and pernicious dangers to ICU patients. How does the smART system help prevent ...
Source: Medgadget - July 31, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Anesthesiology Critical Care Exclusive Medicine Surgery Source Type: blogs

Repair and Reboot
NIRAN AL-AGBA, MD I told you so. I also told the POTUS in my open letter, but he did not read it. Who could honestly believe the nation would support dumping coverage for 22 million people? As David Leonhard wrote recently op-ed in the New York Times: “They [Republicans and President Trump] had only one big weakness, in fact: They weren’t dealing in reality.” When faced with reality, it is interesting what a few good Senators with a conscience will refuse to do. Success is never attained by taking shortcuts. We do not need reform of health care; we need to reboot the entire system. Special interests d...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 27, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Niran Al-Agba Source Type: blogs

A hidden reason for electronic prescribing of controlled substances
As of July 1, pharmacies in Maine cannot honor paper or telephone prescriptions for controlled substances, from OxyContin down to Valium, Lyrica, and Tylenol with codeine. EPCS, or electronic prescribing of controlled substances, is a double security step in the prescription process built into EMRs, electronic medical records. It involves another password entry and the use of one-time passwords from a small number generator issued to each prescriber. It has been said that this will prevent fraudulent prescriptions via phone or on stolen prescription pads, as well as altering of legitimate prescriptions. Continue reading .....
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 18, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/a-country-doctor" rel="tag" > A Country Doctor, MD < /a > Tags: Meds Medications Pain management Source Type: blogs

15 ys of blogging – unintended consequences
When I started blogging in 2002, I did not understand where blogging would go. I took a rather vanilla name – medical rants – due purely to naivety. Perhaps if I could have seen the future I would have used the phrase unintended consequences in the blog’s title. Medical care in 2017 suffers often from the unintended consequences that government has induced. I have written about this problem many times over the past 15 years. This problem is not just a US problem, but seemingly a problem throughout the world. Our jobs have become unnecessarily complex. When Congress passes laws and when CMS devel...
Source: DB's Medical Rants - July 18, 2017 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: rcentor Tags: Medical Rants Source Type: blogs

What 9 SLPs Learned at ASHA ’ s Private Practice and Health Care Connect Conference
Caption: Gary Altobella, owner of The Synapse Health Group, LLC, talks to Private Practice Connect participants about aligning clinical and business approaches. Juliane Pearson took the leap from working as a school-based speech-language pathologist to opening her own private practice a year ago. So she came to ASHA’s Private Practice Connect to get some ideas and strategies—and she was not disappointed. “I’m lucky I’m still small,” she said after attending a presentation on the importance of tracking patient and practice-pattern data by Shannon Butkus. “I can put the tracking system in place now, and it will...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - July 10, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Carol Polovoy Tags: Speech-Language Pathology Practice Management private practice Professional Development Source Type: blogs

Weekly Overseas Health IT Links – 8th July, 2017.
Here are a few I came across last week. Note: Each link is followed by a title and few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment.-----http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/cerner-epic-shops-begin-electronic-exchange-patient-recordsCerner, Epic shops begin electronic exchange of patient recordsCompetitors Novant Health, Carolinas HealthCare say it boosts patient safety.By Bernie MonegainJune 29, 2017 04:16 PMTwo North Carolina-based rival healthcare systems, Novant Health and Carolinas HealthCar...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 8, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs

Unreformed: Taming the Charge Monster
By, SAURABH JHA Any backpacker travelling on a shoestring budget in Thailand knows not to blow their entire budget on premium whiskey in a premium hotel on the first night in Bangkok. Rather, you need to skip the occasional meal, stay in a cheap dorm with random strangers, and drink cheap beer on Khao San Road if you wish to see the country and return home without having to wash dishes in a restaurant in Bangkok to repay the loans. Both Democrats and Republicans seem impervious to a simple wisdom that I learnt when backpacking – you save money if you go for cheap stuff. The operative word here is “cheap.” Both the Af...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 1, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: at RogueRad Tags: Economics Hospitals Uncategorized Source Type: blogs