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Aug 23 2010

More on EHR Benefits

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments

New research adds more caution to the promotion of great benefits from electronic medical records. The researchers found that in hospitals, costs actually increased and quality worsened by some measures,…

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Aug 20 2010

McKinsey Quarterly

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McKinsey Quarterly: A provider that creates a best-practice IT platform can generate significant operating efficiencies.

Aug 20 2010

NASCIO Report on Health Exchanges

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Another recent report looks at HIEs, which are part of the critical infrastructure for reform. The status of each state's efforts and progress are detailed, as well as some general…

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Aug 19 2010

Insurance & Technology

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Health carriers expect IT improvements on the provider side to lower healthcare costs by reducing care redundancies and readmissions.

Aug 18 2010

Forbes

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A seismic shift in the U.S. health insurance industry will present unprecedented challenges and opportunities for the health care payer CIO’s

Aug 14 2010

2010 Potpourri XXIX

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Another Saturday, another Potpourri, featuring the acquisition of a hospital medical necessity company, Americans' online health usage, analysis of prescriptions, California workers' compensation, home monitoring of elderly parents, remote psychiatric…

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Aug 13 2010

Fiscal Times

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New study shows the use of IT in a group of California hospitals actually has resulted in higher costs, higher levels of nurse staffing and higher patient complications.

Aug 11 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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A second federal bill seeks to “clarify the application of EHR payment incentives” for multi-campus hospitals in the meaningful use subsidy requirements

Aug 09 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Health-insurance companies including Humana Inc. and Aetna Inc. are stepping into the race to equip doctors with high-tech patient records.

Aug 09 2010

next.gov

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Two large medical certification boards declared on Thursday their intention to make physicians’ use of health information technology a standard for assessing and certifying the competency of doctors.

Aug 09 2010

The Hill

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A broad array of healthcare plans, providers and professional licensing bodies on Thursday announced a slew of initiatives aimed at getting hospitals and physicians’ offices to adopt electronic health records

Aug 09 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Facilities that have automated surveillance technologies to detect infectious organisms have also implemented best practices to prevent their spread

Aug 06 2010

next.gov

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General Electric and Intel have formed a joint venture to develop health IT products aimed at exploiting the lucrative and fast-growing chronic care market

Aug 06 2010

Reuters

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IBM launched a service, developed with Aetna subsidiary ActiveHealth Management, to help physicians access patients’ health data like previous medical records, claims, and lab data from multiple sources and quickly analyze what the best treatment might be

Aug 05 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Payors struggle to manage contracts that vary from facility to facility, from procedure to procedure, with significant deviation within each contract

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