Matching patients to their medical records from multiple health care providers is critical to medical care, but can be challenging to accomplish because their records can be incomplete or inaccurate, and patients often share similar names. How, for example, to match medical records to the correct “John Jones” or “Maria Garcia” from their primary care doctor's office, the lab which processed tests the doctor ordered, the imaging center where they had a cancer screening, the out of town hospital where they were treated while on vacation? What if a name is recorded as James at one site and as Jim at another? And what if a common or uncommon name is mistyped at one or more places?...
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Obesity And The AMA
Vik Khanna | The Health Care Blog | June 27, 2013
Last week’s announcement by the American Medical Association’s (AMA’s) council on science and public health cheered me. It said that the AMA should not designate obesity a disease, because doing so was unlikely to improve health outcomes and because the most widely utilized obesity metric — the body mass index or BMI — was simplistic and flawed. [...] Read More »
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Regenstrief Developing and Testing Novel, Real-World Automated Patient Identification
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Indiana University |
August 8, 2017
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Startup Strategy: HIT And Device Entrepreneurs Name 2014 Risks And Opportunities
Staff Writer | MedCity News | February 12, 2014
While healthcare reform is well underway, a true shift in care delivery and economics appears to be more of a looming threat than a proven reality. The question remains: How do you manage and grow a successful business in the dynamic environment of today while positioning for the future? Read More »
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State Of U.S. Health 'Mediocre': Report
Julie Steenhuysen | Reuters | July 10, 2013
The United States is falling behind its economic peers in most measures of health, despite making gains in the past two decades, according to a sweeping study of data from 34 countries. Read More »
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The Case For Improving Health Data Liquidity
Kristine Martin Anderson | Government Health IT | September 17, 2012
While some disagree on the right approach to transform our healthcare system, most will agree that patients must remain at the core. In order to deliver on the promise of more affordable, convenient care, healthcare decision makers should look at every decision with the patient at the center. Read More »
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Transformation of Health System Needed to Improve Care and Reduce Costs
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Blue Shield of California Foundation (BSCF), Charina Endowment Fund, , Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), Institute of Medicine (IoM) |
September 6, 2012
America's health care system has become too complex and costly to continue business as usual, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine. Read More »
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VA's Blue Button Now At 1 Million Users, Aims At 100 Million Soon
Jared Serbu | Federal News Radio | September 12, 2012
Two years ago, the Department of Veterans Affairs' Blue Button project started with the idea that VA could improve veterans' health outcomes by giving them something they'd been clamoring for: easy access to their own health records that had theretofore been locked up in VA's data systems and visible only to health care providers. Read More »
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Winning The Healthcare Olympics
Jeff Goldstein | Divurgent | August 30, 2012
Healthcare is an area where the US should be the world Olympic leader but we are not. To understand why, let’s look at some of the critical metrics... Read More »
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