Need all your fingers and toes to count the Medicare "quality" initiatives doctors have to comply with, and many are responding with a certain finger to those programs.
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Accenture surveyed physicians in six countries regarding use of health information technology.
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The 2014 Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare Index Report gives data on administrative electronic transaction use and savings in health care.
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A study in Health Affairs reviews the evidence for benefits from more extensive health information exchange, finding not much there.
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One of the unintended consequences of all the requirements to use HIT has been the creation and growth of a whole new category of health care employee--the medical scribe.
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A study of the VHA's patient portal finds that while 17% of veterans had finalized registration in the portal, a very small percent actually use any of the functionality, other than about 10% using it for getting prescriptions.
http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20141215/BLOG/312159995&utm_source=link-20141215-BLOG-312159995&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hits&utm_name=topA PriceWaterhouseCooper Health Research Institute brief theorizes on how health care delivery will be transformed by technology.
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A survey reported in the American Journal of Managed Care finds that use of health information technology is reducing the time physicians have to see patients; for each new system a doctor uses, capacity to see new privately insured patients drops by about 14%, although no effect was reported on Medicare or Medicaid capacity.
http://www.ajmc.com/publications/issue/2014/2014-11-vol20-sp/primary-care-capacity-as-insurance-coverage-expands-examining-the-role-of-health-information-technology/1A study in the Journal of General Internal Medicine confirms that only about 30% of older Americans use the internet to find health information and that less than 10% of those who have serious health issues do so.
http://www.healthdatamanagement.com/news/Older-Americans-May-Miss-Out-on-Web-Health-Highway-49227-1.htmlAccording to research firm IQ4I the global health care analytics market will be worth $20.8 billion by 2020. Note that, not $20.7, not $20.9 but a clear $20.8 billion.
http://www.healthdatamanagement.com/news/Healthcare-Analytics-Market-to-Reach-More-Than-20-Billion-Dollars-by-2020-48850-1.html?utm_campaign=daily-sep%2023%202014&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&ET=healthdatamanagement%3Ae3101293%3A3722900a%3A&st=emailE-prescribing plus formulary decision support did not have a significant effect on medication non-adherence, according to a new paper.
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The latest issue of Health Affairs focuses on "big data" and analytics, but the content reflects how little this latest hot initiative has actually achieved.
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