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| Survey: Privacy compliance has declined Posted: 14 May 2006 01:56 AM PDT Three years after federal rules governing the privacy of patients' medical records went into effect, compliance seems to have declined for 6 percent, according to an annual survey conducted by the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). Read more about this at here.  |
| Posted: 14 May 2006 01:53 AM PDT E-Health has become an integral part of present-day healthcare delivery. With healthcare consumers, increasingly the focus of most health systems, the widespread implementation of health information and communications technologies offers cost-effective opportunities to meet their increasingly sophisticated healthcare needs.Bankix Systems Ltd has released its latest e-book. It is a 200-page in-depth analysis of the issues involved in "Making E-Health Work," the e-book's title. Read more about this e-book at here.  |
| Consumer tools: UCompareHealthCare Offers Free Reports on Hospitals, Nursing Homes and Physicians Posted: 11 Mar 2006 01:01 AM PST "UCompareHealthCare has just unveiled its Web site, ucomparehealthcare.com, which features free reports on the nation's nursing homes, hospitals and physicians to help consumers make informed healthcare decisions. I checked the web site and found it very informative for health consumers to help them make informed decision about their choices of doctors, hospitals and others." Read more about this at UCompareHealthCare  |
| Articles: Direct to Consumer: Women are a powerful, but untapped, audience Posted: 03 Feb 2006 12:04 AM PST "Women influence many family decisions—from choosing what's for dinner to selecting the medications their children take. In fact, nearly two-thirds of women are responsible for family healthcare decisions, according to a 2004 national survey conducted by Plan for Your Health. Many women also assume the care-giving role outside their nuclear families. Today's middle-aged woman may also look after her parents and in-laws too, often determining how long they can live on their own and how to best care for them. In addition, she often influences the important health decisions of grandchildren, co-workers, and friends." Read more at PharmExec.  |
| Consumer tools: Really Personal PHRs Posted: 27 Jan 2006 01:05 AM PST "If we're committed to fostering the adoption of personal health records, we should take a page out of the consumer marketing textbooks — not the primers of health IT marketers. This was my conclusion after attending a recent meeting in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the Markle Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Agency for Healthcare Quality Research and Quality. " Read more about this at iHealthBeat .  |
| Consumer trends: Manhattan Predicts Online Health Trends Posted: 27 Jan 2006 12:06 AM PST "US healthcare specialist Manhattan Research has published a summary of the major trends for health and pharmaceutical marketers to consider in 2006. The trends chart the increased use of the web and other new technologies as a health information and communication tool for both patients and physicians." Read more at Daily Research News Online.  |
| News: Wall Street Journal Looks at Tools That Identify Low-Cost Care Options Posted: 26 Jan 2006 01:07 AM PST "The Wall Street Journal on Thursday looked at efforts by insurers to provide patients with tools - including a cell phone Web browsing service - to help them find low-cost treatment options. Lumenos, a unit of WellPoint, in February will launch the cell phone service, which lets patients type drug names into their cell phones' Web browsers and get lists of lower-cost alternatives. The program is designed so that patients can ask their physicians about cost-effective alternatives while they still are at their appointments." Read more at iHealthBeat.  |
| Consumer tools: Consumer Health Complete Now Available from EBSCO Publishing Posted: 25 Jan 2006 12:09 AM PST "In continuing with the company's goal of providing the most comprehensive collection of online health and wellness resources, EBSCO Publishing has announced the release of Consumer Health Complete (CHC). This full text database is designed to support consumer and patients' information needs as well as foster an overall understanding of health-related topics." Read more at Managing Information News.  |
| Doctor working for hospital may cost more Posted: 5/5/2009 © Daytona Beach News-Journal With malpractice insurance and other rates rising, many doctors are opting to become direct employees of hospitals, instead of private practitioners. That can mean unexpected extra charges for patients. |
| Fairness to doctors or 'gag order' on patients? Posted: 2/13/2009 © Florida Health News Some Florida doctors now require patients to sign an agreement promising not to post Internet comments about them without permission. Some say it's "an attempt to steal the consumer's right to free speech," but doctors say it's a matter of fairness. |
| Posted: 04 May 2009 11:02 AM PDT Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} Healthcare Informatics has won three awards from the American Society of Healthcare Publication Editors for excellence in journalism. In the Profile category, HCI received a gold award for “ Behind the Curtain ,” an in-depth look at Epic System Corporation by Senior Contributing Editor Mark Hagland. In the Single News Article segment, the publication took silver for Kate Gamble’s “ No Sponge Left Behind ,” a look at the technologies used to track surgical equipment in the OR. And in the Legislative/Government category, Contributing Editor David Raths won bronze for his examination of privacy issues in, “ Stay Out of My EMR .” “I couldn’t be prouder of our entire staff,” said Anthony Guerra, HCI Editor-in-Chief. “Every single person involved with this magazine has one goal in mind — to provide our readers with actionable news and analysis that helps them improve healthcare. These awards from ASHPE give us confidence we’re fulfilling that mission.” |
| CHIME Defines ‘Meaningful Use’ Posted: 04 May 2009 08:52 AM PDT The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) provided its statement on the definition of “meaningful use of health information technology” to a hearing of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics , an advisory body to the Department of Health and Human Services. Compliance with this definition will determine whether hospitals and group practices qualify for Medicare and Medicaid financial incentives under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The Ann Arbor, Mich.-headquartered professional group recommends: The use of quality metrics and outcomes regardless of technology in place; A phased approach to encourage early adoption without raising the bar too high too early; Exploring alternative means to connectivity in the short term and connection to an HIE over time; Consideration of alternative means to use of CCD for exchange of health data. |
| Montefiore Creates Study and Research Tool Posted: 04 May 2009 08:49 AM PDT Thanks to its new tool, Clinical Looking Glass (CLG) , New York’s Montefiore Medical Center now has the ability to pool its data to conduct enhanced population-based clinical research and institution-wide patient studies. Developed at Montefiore, the teaching hospital of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, CLG assembles results in minutes and hours, it claims. The software, which taps into Montefiore’s EMR, is used by clinicians who conduct 2,800 CLG inquiries, or analytics, every month, the organization says. Because all of the analyses can be run without identifying the names of the patients (i.e. using ‘de-identified’ data), exploratory questions can be undertaken while protecting privacy, it touts. According to the healthcare organization, CLG permits clinicians to slice data in multiple ways. After a clinician generates a hypothesis about a specific disease, for example, CLG can in minutes collect data on patients with that disease who were treated with a specific medicine over a specific period of time and live in a specific neighborhood; and then compare this data with patients from a different time period, or a different neighborhood or who were given a different medicine for the same disease. |
| CSC Study: Budget Concerns Hitting Harder Posted: 01 May 2009 07:16 AM PDT Hospitals and healthcare provider networks are getting hit even harder with budget concerns in the current economic climate according to a new study by Falls Church, Va.-based CSC . The study cites a recent CEO survey by the Washington-based American Hospital Association which found that donations, grants and other non-operating income — which often pays for new equipment and information technology (IT) — fell from a surplus of $396 million at the end of 2007 to a deficit of $896 million at the end of last year. The study says this drop in funding is having an adverse effect on IT budgets. CSC found that 38 percent of hospital CEOs have delayed or deferred IT projects that were already underway, and 55 percent were delaying or deferring upcoming projects. The report, which also offers tips for doing more with less, is available online at: www.csc.com/health_services/insights/24658-getting_value_from_it . |
| Psych Hospital Inks Deal for Open Source EHR Posted: 01 May 2009 07:15 AM PDT Silver Hill Hospital (New Canaan, Conn.) signed a five-year contract with Carslbad, Calif.-based Medsphere Systems Corporation for implementation, training and support of the company’s OpenVista EHR solution. Under the terms of the deal, the implementation of OpenVista at Silver Hill will provide psychiatric practitioners with access to clinical IT support, including a comprehensive EHR in the OpenVista Clinical Information System, CPOE functionality, an inpatient bar code medication administration system, a health information management system, interoperability via the OpenVista Interface Suite, and testing support through the laboratory application. Additionally, Silver Hill practitioners will have access to OpenVista Group Notes, which allow behavioral treatment therapists to use a single interface to take clinical notes for a group of patients, says the company. Silver Hill Hospital is a not-for-profit psychiatric hospital that provides inpatient and residential Transitional Living Programs for adolescents and adults with psychiatric and substance use disorders. |
| AMIC Endorses Senate Finance Committee’s Imaging Proposals Posted: 01 May 2009 07:14 AM PDT The Washington-based Access to Medical Imaging Coalition (AMIC) offered its support for proposed policies regarding medical imaging as well as the Senate Finance Committee’s goal of providing universal coverage for all Americans. Specifically, AMIC endorses the Finance Committee’s proposal to promote adherence to appropriateness criteria for imaging services. The designation of nationally recognized, physician-developed appropriateness criteria, together with an education and confidential feedback program to report patterns of adherence to those criteria, will provide the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) with necessary information to limit inappropriate imaging while maintaining patients’ access to needed imaging services, it says. AMIC also strongly supports the establishment of a nationwide Diagnostic Imaging Exchange Network that would allow physicians to access a patient’s past imaging studies in order to determine the necessity, safety and appropriateness of ordering a new scan. AMIC also supports the transparency in self-referrals policy proposal that would require that physicians disclose their financial interest in pre-identified imaging services. AMIC remains very concerned about the potential inclusion of a policy that would use radiology benefit managers (RBMs) to control Medicare beneficiaries’ access to certain imaging services. RBMs are for-profit management companies established by the health insurance industry to deny coverage for imaging services. |
| Forum to Focus on ARRA Spending Posted: 29 Apr 2009 10:15 AM PDT On Thursday, April 30, Markle Foundation (New York) is hosting Getting Health IT Right Under ARRA, a forum that it says will bring together health IT experts and government decision-makers to discuss how to best spend the funds allocated for the industry in the stimulus package. The event will be held from 9 to 11:30 a.m. at the Newseum, Room 802, located at 555 Pennsylvania Ave. NW in Washington. It will feature a public-private coalition of IT and healthcare stakeholders regarding “meaningful use,” the Foundation says. Speakers will include: · David Blumenthal, National Coordinator for Health IT, Department of Health and Human Services · Mark McClellan, Director of the Engelberg Center at the Brookings Institution · Todd Park, Senior Fellow for Health IT at the Center for American Progress · Zoё Baird, President of the Markle Foundation · Carol Diamond, Managing Director of the Markle Foundation For more information or to RSVP, please contact Amy Martin at amartin@gymr.com or 202-745-5118. |
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