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Divurgent And Medsphere Join Forces To Tackle Meaningful Use And ICD-10 Challenges
Divurgent, an innovative provider of healthcare IT consulting services, today announced a strategic partnership with Medsphere Systems Corporation. Through this agreement, Divurgent will support Medsphere clients in transforming care while addressing various industry compliance initiatives including Meaningful Use, ICD-10, and value-based purchasing models. Read More »
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DIY Healthcare: Going Beyond WebMD
Despite all the hoopla about the Affordable Care Act, and what it will mean for the U.S., the fundamental experience of going to the doctor hasn’t changed and while innovation and experimentation are inherent to the field of medicine, they aren’t as common in how healthcare is delivered. Read More »
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Do We Need Skinny Healthcare Interoperability?
I’ve written previously about the idea of skinny data in healthcare instead of big data. It’s an important concept that I think many are putting into practice. Today [...] Rolando Merino, MD suggested what I think could be called skinny healthcare interoperability. Read More »
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Doc Helps Lead Blue Button 'Revolution'
Watch out for a French person talking about revolution. “The patient is the revolutionary in healthcare these days,” said Dr. Bettina Experton, a French-born oncologist turned U.S. citizen and health IT entrepreneur. “That is why I think Blue Button is revolutionary.” Read More »
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DocGraph: Open Social Doctor Data
An inside look at DocGraph, a data project that shows how the U.S. health care system delivers care. Read More »
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Docs 'Stressed And Unhappy' About EHRs
While physicians recognize the benefits of electronic health records, they also complain that many systems deployed nowadays are cumbersome to use and often act as obstacles to quality care, according to a new report from RAND Corporation. Read More »
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Docs Favor Paper Over Portals, Study Shows
Patient portals will become a big part of the requirements doctors must fulfill for Stage 2 meaningful use in the HER incentive program. And that means, doctors have a long way to go to get there, because the vast majority still like communicating the old-fashioned way. Read More »
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Docs File Class Action Lawsuit Over Glitchy Medicaid IT
Among other issues identified by the audit, 12 of the 14 federal- and state-mandated capabilities had not been implemented by their target dates, including rehabilitation care pricing rules and the Medicaid pharmacy program. Read More »
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Docs Flock To Cloud To Save Bottom Line
Cloud-based EHRs with integrated billing solutions favored to save independent practices from take-over Read More »
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Docs, Don’t Ignore mHealth
In March of this year, a startup called Scanadu launched a crowd-funding campaign with hopes of raising $100,000. As of this writing, their campaign has raised over $1.4 million, which is the most successful campaign in Indiegogo's history. Read More »
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Docs: EHR Transition Is A Rocky Road
The transition to digital records is proving difficult for some medical practices, according to local press reports, with complaints including losing money because physicians can't see as many patients during the time-consuming implementation period. Read More »
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Doctor Burnout: Nearly Half of Physicians Report Symptoms
A national survey of physicians finds the prevalence of burnout at an "alarming" level, says a study out Monday. Read More »
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Doctor Data Made To Order
Recently, Health and Human Services (HHS) Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a request for public comment on how they should handle the reversal of an injunction that prevented them from revealing specific information about how doctors perform. Read More »
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Doctor Seeking Illinois Senate Seat Offers Brutal Diagnosis Of ObamaCare In Viral Video
She's a former nun, an Army major, a lawyer, a college professor and a physician. Now Dr. Barbara Bellar wants to be a state senator from Illinois, and she has one question about ObamaCare. Read More »
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Doctors And Nurses Complicit In CIA Torture, Alleges Report By Institute Of Medicine And Open Society Foundations
DOCTOR and nurses tasked with monitoring the health of terror suspects were complicit in abuses committed at prisons run by the Pentagon and the CIA, an independent report has alleged. Read More »
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