However promising gamification in health care may be, it is the AR that may well hold the most promise for health care. Google was not wrong to pursue Google Glass, just premature. Pokémon Go may be signaling that we're now finally ready for AR, and that it will be consumers as well as professionals who can benefit from it. The potential uses in health care are virtually endless, but here are a few examples...Ever feel like your doctor spends too much time staring at your chart or a screen? Instead of looking there for information about you, how much better would it be if he/she was looking at you, with AR notations for key information about you?...
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Congress Dishes Out HIT Budgets, Interoperability Probes
Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | December 22, 2014
Ten years after the creation of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, amid record partisan discord, lawmakers are trying to address problems they see in the direction of health IT’s evolution...
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Congress Looks To Set Firm VA-DoD EHR Integration Timeline
Jennifer Bresnick | EHR Intelligence | July 23, 2013
A bill introduced in Congress late last month would set a firm timeline for the EHR integration efforts of the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense... Read More »
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Congress unhappy with DoD, VA health records progress
Leo Shane III | Marine Times | April 16, 2014
House lawmakers plan to hold back millions in dollars of technology funding from Defense and Veterans Affairs department planners until Congress is convinced they are making progress on developing a way to share electronic medical records. Read More »
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Congressman Promotes Western NY Tech Economy
Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | December 20, 2012
While most of Washington D.C. is engulfed in fiscal cliff negotiations, Congressman Brian Higgins, a Democrat from western New York, is urging lawmakers to support wider use of electronic health records and is also touting his home region’s somewhat bustling health IT economy. Read More »
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Consolidation of US Physician Practices Continues to Surge
Nicola M. Parry | Medscape | September 7, 2016
The trend toward consolidation of physician practices in recent decades is accelerating, according to results of a new study published online September 7 in Health Affairs. "The proportion of physicians in groups of nine or fewer dropped from 40.1 percent in 2013 to 35.3 percent in 2015, while the proportion of those in groups of one hundred or more increased from 29.6 percent to 35.1 percent during the same time period," David B. Muhlestein, PhD, JD, and Nathan J. Smith, PhD, from Leavitt Partners, Salt Lake City, Utah, write. "Primary care physicians have made this change at a much faster pace than specialists have"...
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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 »
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Continua Health Alliance Aims To Cure Top Telehealth Industry Challenges
Sharon Hess | Embedded Computing Design | May 1, 2013
Striving to cure telehealth challenges - including connected health equipment ease-of-deployment, integration of telehealth data into care providers' normal workflow, and meeting changing patient needs - is all in a day's work for the nonprofit Continua Health Alliance... Read More »
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Continuity Of Care: 4 Benefits Of The DoD And VA's Integrated EHR
Benjamin Harris | Healthcare IT News | November 9, 2012
Caring for the nation's service members has never been easy. Providing world-class medical attention for the men and women of the Armed Forces from the front lines to the hospitals and clinics of the Veterans Administration (VA) is a daunting task that entails massive logistical and data hurdles. Read More »
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Coronavirus Adds New Stress To Antiquated Health Record-Keeping
Darius Tahir | Politico | March 11, 2020
The U.S. health care system is on the leading edge of many technologies - except when it comes to passing information between doctors, laboratories, and public health officials. And that could add another snarl to the already troubled effort to test for coronavirus. Overreliance on faxing, phones and paper records is problem enough in ordinary times. Adding thousands of coronavirus tests a day will test the ability of providers, labs, and public health officials to keep track of all the results. Because not all results are automatically downloaded into physicians' records, the doctors may need to log into laboratory web portals or, if all else fails, turn to faxes and phones to learn test results.
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Cost of a Breach: Forensics and Notification
Staff Writer | Protenus | August 17, 2016
Continuing our Cost of a Breach series that examines and breaks down the cost of a hospital data breach, this week’s post will take a closer look at the first two steps a hospital or healthcare institution must take after a data breach has occurred: forensics and notification. In the aftermath of a data breach, the first thing a healthcare organization must do is determine what electronic health records (EHRs) were illegitimately accessed and who accessed them; this process is known as data forensics...
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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 »
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Could Big Data Become Big Brother?
Diana Manos | Government Health IT | June 24, 2014
Call it Big Data bloodlust: The more health information being generated by a growing contingency of apps, devices, electronic health records, mHealth sensors and wearables, the broader and stronger the desire for that data becomes...
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Could Pokémon Go Help Fix Healthcare and Lead to Usable EHRs?
By Kim Bellard | July 15, 2016
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Court Dings CA County For Mishandled EHR Implementation
Jennifer Bresnick | EHR Intelligence | June 5, 2014
The Ventura County Grand Jury has identified a lack of resources, proper training, and investment as the major culprits in a rocky EHR rollout at the county-run healthcare system, according to an official report. The implementation of the Cerner system was stymied by poor leadership and preparedness, lackluster commitment to training, and insufficient purchasing of infrastructure hardware, which left staff members locked out of the system and put patients at risk of harm due to the confusion...
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CPOE: Meaningful Use’s Primary Obstacle Is VistA’s Greatest Strength
By Edmund Billings, MD | November 16, 2012
A study recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) identifies the implementation and adoption of Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE) functionality as the number one barrier for hospitals working toward Meaningful Use Stage 1. Entitled “Overcoming challenges to achieving meaningful use: Insights from hospitals that successfully received Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services payments in 2011,” the study findings are significant because the say a great deal about the way different health IT platforms have been developed.
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