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Consumer Guide Promotes Personal Health Records

Ken Terry | InformationWeek | September 17, 2012

The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) has issued a guide to help consumers understand how they can access their medical records and what they can do with them. Read More »

Cost Reminders Via CPOE Lead To Fewer Test Orders

Susan D. Hall | FierceHealthIT | April 17, 2013

Displaying the cost of a test via computerized provider order entry systems prompted a 9 percent reduction in the number of tests ordered, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine. Read More »

Cracking The Apple Trap

Catherine Rampell | New York Times | October 29, 2013

At first, I thought it was my imagination. Around the time the iPhone 5S and 5C were released, in September, I noticed that my sad old iPhone 4 was becoming a lot more sluggish. The battery was starting to run down much faster, too. But the same thing seemed to be happening to a lot of people who, like me, swear by their Apple products... Read More »

Data Management: Precision Agriculture Can Learn From Healthcare

Kelby Kleinsasser | PrecisionAg | May 2, 2013

In my brief foray into Healthcare Information Technology (IT), it took only a couple of weeks to discover that the challenges they faced were harshly reminiscent of what we’re facing in Ag Information Technology. Read More »

Dear New York Times: Next Time, Dig Deeper Into The EHR Vendor Industry

Marla Durben Hirsch | FierceEMR | February 26, 2013

There's been quite an outpouring of sentiment about last week's New York Times article "A Digital Shift on Health Data Swells Profits in an Industry", most of it negative. Many of the 525 comments that the article received blasted electronic health record systems themselves... Read More »

DeSalvo Shares 5-Point Plan For Interoperability

Diana Manos | Government Health IT | February 6, 2014

Karen DeSalvo, MD, newly appointed national coordinator for health information technology, gave some insight Thursday on how the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology plans to proceed under her leadership. Read More »

Digital Healthcare – Making The Most Of NHS IPR

Staff Writer | Woodcote Consulting | June 4, 2013

I’ve got what I think is an important question for NHS England. How do we get the best value out of the IPR (intellectual property rights) created by NHS organisations developing digital tools – Is it by freely sharing this IPR or by seeking to exploit it commercially? Read More »

Disbursement Of Federal Health IT Incentives Tops $7 Billion

John Pulley | Nextgov | November 7, 2012

Federal funds continue to benefit health-care providers who demonstrate meaningful use of electronic health records. As of September, incentive programs have distributed more than $3.9 billion through Medicare, $3.5 billion through Medicaid, according to figures provided by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Read More »

Doc Helps Lead Blue Button 'Revolution'

Joseph Conn | ModernHealthcare.com | July 1, 2013

Watch out for a French person talking about revolution. “The patient is the revolutionary in healthcare these days,” said Dr. Bettina Experton, a French-born oncologist turned U.S. citizen and health IT entrepreneur. “That is why I think Blue Button is revolutionary.” Read More »

Doc Pay Method May Deter Shift To Value

Mary Mosquera | Healthcare IT News | February 3, 2014

Shifting doctors to pay-for-value models will not be simple. A recent report from the American Medical Association looked at proposed payment methods in models such as accountable care organizations, episodic bundles of care and risk-adjusted global budgets, to see how they line up with current approaches for compensation. Read More »

Editor's Letter: 10 Years And 6 Czars Into HIT, Where Are We Now?

Diana Manos | Government Health IT | December 23, 2013

It has been almost a decade since President George W. Bush launched the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and since that time hordes of pilots, projects, grants, initiatives, federal advisory committees and regulations have been launched or established. Read More »

EHR Adoption Tripled Since 2010, Report Shows

Carol Ko | DOTmed.com | July 9, 2013

Ongoing debate around EHR's cost savings potential hasn't kept hospitals from adopting the technology at a rapid rate, according to a new report co-authored by Mathematica Policy Research and Harvard School of Public Health. Read More »

EHR Dissatisfaction: A Tech Or People Problem?

Kimberly Martini | Government Health IT | May 6, 2013

A percolating problem is beginning to boil over: doctors and nurses really don’t like their new electronic health records systems. And, as EHR implementations increase ahead of government deadlines for incentive dollars, dissatisfaction among clinicians is growing. Read More »

EHR Implementation Rising, But Hurdles For Healthcare Providers Remain

Brian Eastwood | CIO.com | May 6, 2013

Thanks to government incentives, more healthcare organizations in the United States are implementing Electronic Health Record systems than ever before. But EHR implementation isn't the same as EHR adoption, which requires significant investment in planning, training and personnel. Read More »

EHR Incentive Program To Drive Patient Portals

Mary Mosquera | Government Health IT | January 2, 2013

The federal incentive program for adoption of electronic health records is on the verge of driving a growth spike in patient portals, as meaningful use stage 2 requires that physicians engage with their patients and share more information. Read More »