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Quality Matters: "Hospital at Home" Programs Improve Outcomes, Lower Costs But Face Resistance from Providers and Payers
Hospital at home programs that enable patients to receive acute care at home have proven effective in reducing complications while cutting the cost of care by 30 percent or more, leading to entrepreneurial efforts to promote their use. But widespread adoption of the model in the U.S. has been hampered by physicians’ concerns about patient safety, as well as legal risk, and by the reluctance of payers, including Medicare, to reimburse providers for delivering services in home settings. Read More »
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Quality Systems, Inc. Acquires Mirth Corporation
[Quality Systems, Inc.], announced today it has acquired Mirth Corporation, a global leader in health information technology that helps clients achieve interoperability. The acquisition will enhance the Company’s current enterprise interoperability initiatives and broaden its accountable and collaborative care, population health, disease management and clinical data exchange offerings. Read More »
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Quality, Disparity Reports Show Little Healthcare Improvement for Minorities
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) released two healthcare reports last Friday showing that overall in the years 2002 through 2008, quality, access and disparities in healthcare for most racial and ethnic groups improved minimally, if at all. Read More »
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Quora Response: Fueling Innovation and Entrepreneurship
On the Q&A platform Quora today, Chief Technology Officer Todd Park answered a question about President Obama’s efforts to fuel innovation and entrepreneurship. Read Todd's response below, or join the conversation on Quora. Read More »
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Raise Your Awareness Of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Commentary From A VA Doctor
There's a saying that a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. This is especially true of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Read More »
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Rancho BioSciences Will Present The TranSMART Open Source Platform At TM Forum’s Digital Disruption 2013, Oct 28-31, San Jose
Rancho BioSciences will be demonstrating the open source clinical omic's platform, tranSMART at the TM Forum Digital Disruption meeting. Rancho will be show how this platform can make a difference in the Personalized Medicine Space and the IT infrastructure needed to support it. Read More »
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RAND Analysts Say Misaligned Incentives Hinder Interoperability
In 2005, several RAND Corporation researchers predicted that rapid adoption of electronic health records and health IT systems could save the greater U.S. healthcare system about $80 billion annually — not a huge amount of the $2 trillion spent that year, but worth it for the government and providers to invest money, labor and time. Read More »
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Ransford Health To Offer NexJ Connected Wellness To American Accountable Care Organizations
NexJ Systems Inc. (TSX: NXJ), a provider of cloud-based software delivering enterprise solutions to the financial services, insurance, and healthcare industries, today announced that Ransford Health will begin offering NexJ Connected Wellness to Healthcare Systems and Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) as part of its efforts to help them realize shared savings and improved outcomes through patient activation. Read More »
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Rate Shock And Awe In California
I have to say I was surprised with the press reports last week that there wasn’t “rate shock” in California when the California exchange offered preliminary information about their new plans and rates. Read More »
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Re-Imagining How We Provide And Govern Health Care Using Open Data
Earlier this week, entrepreneurs, data scientists, doctors, health IT innovators, and representatives from Washington gathered for the 4th Annual Health Datapalooza Conference in Washington DC. What started 4 years ago as a 45 person gathering, now attracts almost 2000 participants... Read More »
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Readmissions 'Drop Like A Rock' With Predictive Modeling
Predictive modeling offers the key to understanding which healthcare services most affect utilization, readmissions, and payment, and how to tackle the outliers. These analytics are within the grasp of any healthcare system. Read More »
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Real-Time Location And Mobile Health Solutions Gain Traction, Show ROI
According to a recent presentation at a Stanford Business forum, healthcare Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS) is an emerging market equaling $325 million worldwide, with an addressable market that is larger... Read More »
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REC: EHR Implementation Is A 'Psychological Roller Coaster'
Electronic health record adoption is a "psychological roller coaster" for small physician practices, according to a report by the Washington Idaho Regional Extension Center (WIREC). [...] Read More »
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Red Hat Earns CEO Cancer Gold Standard Accreditation
Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source software solutions, headquartered in Raleigh, NC, is leading by example when it comes to promoting workplace wellness and encouraging healthier behavior. Read More »
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Red Hat Recognizes Cutting-Edge Open Source Deployments In Seventh Annual Innovation Awards
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the finalists of the seventh annual Red Hat Innovation Awards. The awards program recognizes customers, partners and communities for their outstanding use, innovation, and extension of Red Hat technology. Read More »
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