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What DThe CommonWell Launch Mean To A Healthcare CIO?
Since its initial launch at HIMSS13, the CommonWell Health Alliance has had many in the healthcare industry wondering when its next step toward true interoperability would take place. Speculation came to an end yesterday when the collaboration of health IT vendors announced the first provider sites to go live with its interoperability service. Read More »
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What India Has To Teach About Running Hospitals
Ask a Westerner for her perception of hospitals in India and she’ll probably think of the nation’s status as a “developing country” and assume that hospitals provide a mediocre standard of care without access to state of the art medical technologies. Read More »
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What To Do (And What Not To Do) When Your $1B System-Wide EHR Fails
The 24-hospital Sutter Health system in Northern California was the talk of the town late August after a software glitch rendered its $1 billion Epic electronic health record system inaccessible to nurses and clinical staff throughout all Sutter locations. Read More »
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What Would The Ideal Hospital Look Like In 2020?
There is tension between doctors and designers. Architects want to build dramatic structures while doctors need room to deal with traumatic scenarios. [...] Despite these inherent differences, the non-profit design firm NXT Health has developed a proposal for the nicest hospital room you’ll hopefully never have to visit. Read More »
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Why Epic's Market Dominance Could Stifle EHR And Health IT Innovation
Epic is the nearly undisputed king of the electronic health records world. About 40% of the U.S. population has its medical information stored in an Epic electronic health record (EHR), and the company often sits atop research firm KLAS' rankings of best-available EHR systems. Read More »
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Why Getting To A Digital Health Care System Is Going to Be Harder Than We Thought Ten Years Ago
A leading scientist once claimed that, with the relevant data and a large enough computer, he could “compute the organism” – meaning completely describe its anatomy, physiology, and behavior. Another legendary researcher asserted that, following capture of the relevant data, “we will know what it is to be human.” Read More »
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Why One-third of Hospitals Will Close by 2020
Despite a history of strength and stature in America, the hospital institution is in the midst of massive and disruptive change. Such change will be so transformational that by 2020 one in three hospitals will close or reorganize into an entirely different type of health care service provider. Several significant forces and factors are driving this inevitable and historical shift.
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Why Patients Will Soon Be Treated Like Valued Customers
Why should hospitals and physicians get serious about the patient experience today? It’s good business! Read More »
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Wyoming Department of Health Joins Forces with Medicity to Develop Statewide Health Information Exchange
Medicity, a leading expert in clinical data aggregation and interoperability, announced its partnership with the Wyoming Department of Health to form a statewide, medical community-owned health information exchange (HIE). Following a thorough assessment of the state’s health information environment, the Wyoming Department of Health (WDH) determined the need to establish a secure venue for providers to obtain patient information across the state. The Wyoming Frontier Information Exchange (WYFI), a centralized repository of clinical data for participating patients, will utilize Medicity’s data aggregation and interoperability capabilities to meet the needs of its population’s health, while improving quality of care.
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Your EHR Doesn't Have To Be A Liability
Shed the status quo in favor of a customer-centric approach to healthcare IT Read More »
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Zoeticx Streamlines Healthcare System Connectivity for Government and Private Insurers Covering Annual Wellness Visits
Zoeticx, Inc., the developer of medical software that bridges the gap between medical data and quality patient care, announced today it has launched ProVizion Wellness, a cloud application that streamlines data integration for Annual Wellness Visits (AWV) covered by CMS and private insurers. Hospital systems and other healthcare facilities will benefit by offering this service and creating new revenue centers through reimbursements by government and private insurers.
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“Health Care Productivity” Is An Oxymoron
It has long baffled me when politicians and others trumpet job growth in the health care sector, while at the same time bemoaning rising health costs, as if there was no connection. Some [cities] have bet a large portion of their economic future on their growing health care industries, and some economists attribute much of the nation’s recent economic revival on the growth in the health care sector. But job growth in itself is not always a good sign... Read More »
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“What Is The Value Of Health IT?”
For its second year of celebrating National Health IT Week, HIMSS is asking a simple question: “What is the value of HIT?” [... Instead] of offering my lone — and probably less than expert – opinion I’ve asked a variety of folks who are probably better able to give more insightful and valuable opinions than mine. Read More »
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Connecting California to Improve Patient Care in 2012: Practical Solutions for Health Information Exchange and Quality Analytics
Connecting California to Improve Patient Care is an annual conference featuring subject matter experts on electronic health records (EHR), personal health records (PHR) and health information exchange (HIE). Speakers and demonstrations will present practical solutions for securely sharing electronic clinical information between unaffiliated health care facilities, such as outpatient practices, hospitals, laboratories, imaging centers, long term care, home health, and public health. Conference attendees will learn best practices in clinical informatics, quality analytics, and HIE services. Speakers will explain the current status of investments in health information technology (IT) in California, national software roadmaps for standards and interoperability, innovations in quality improvement, and emerging tools and opportunities for physician and patient engagement. Read More »
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