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EHRs, IoT, Revenue Cycle Bring Opportunities for Healthcare APIs
Application programming interfaces (APIs) are quickly becoming a critical tool for healthcare organizations looking to build interoperable connections, and it is likely that this new standard for health data exchange will keep growing in importance during the next few years. A new report from Market Research Engine (MRE) predicts healthy growth for the nascent healthcare API ecosystem, forecasting a 4 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) that will produce a $234 million market by 2024....
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EMRs Were Designed For Billing And Not Optimized For Patient Care
EMRs were designed for billing, so let’s unleash that power, instead of trying to convert them into something they cannot be at this point in time. Read More »
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Epic In 2013 = AOL In 1999?
This is a good time to be a big EHR company. Health systems are willing to pay more than $100 million to have a new electronic health record system installed. The New York Times even fawned over the innovative prowess of Epic, which is arguably the most powerful EHR company on the planet. Read More »
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Evolving Patient Rights In The Research And Delivery Of Health Care
...As the idea reached the proscenium this month at the Health Datapalooza, a conference founded by the US Department of Health and Human Services and now attracting more than 2,000 people, patient empowerment marks its entry into the mainstream...
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Executive Roundtable: What Frustrates Hospital CEOs, CIOs About Health IT?
Two hospital and health system CEOs and three CIOs share what frustrates them about health IT and what they are most excited about for the future of health IT. Read More »
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Experience Design In Health Care: A New Imperative
Patient engagement is a potent therapeutic, but how is engagement related to a core tenet of healthcare’s Triple Aim: Patient experience? For that, let’s take a quick look at user experience (UX) design in software. Read More »
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Experts Caution About Stage 2 Meaningful Use Penalties
The difficulty between what it takes to achieve Stage 1 and Stage 2 is so great, it could easily catch some providers off guard, says Laura Kreofsky, principal advisor at Naperville, Ill.-based Impact Advisors, who specializes in meaningful use. Read More »
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FDA Approves Home Health Platform
Federal regulators have approved Verizon's first foray into the home monitoring space. Read More »
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Feds Tout Blue Button, Push Patient Engagement
Pushing the Blue Button was what a parade of government and private-sector health information technology leaders did—often and with gusto—during a series of panel discussions in Washington to kick off Health IT Week. Read More »
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Flagship Project on Precision Medicine for Underserved Women Will Advance Learning Health System
Marc Wine, a supporter of the LHS - Precision Medicine PCOS Project and participant in Learning Health Community initiatives, who attended the summit hosted by the president said, "One goal is to seek collaboration with underserved communities in genomics, open data and integrative medicine. This will result in engaging individual patients in ways that will move them from dependency on fragmented healthcare to the point where patients can use their own evidence-based genetic information to make the very best health decisions." The Precision Medicine PCOS Project is aimed at developing a protocol for women with PCOS while employing an integrative medicine approach to treatment based on the participant's molecular makeup, clinical data and available scientific knowledge.
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Geisinger's Glenn Steele: OpenNotes Changing Care At A Fundamental Level
Through initiatives like the OpenNotes project, Danville, Pennsylvania-based Geisinger Health System is aiming to change patient care at a fundamental level, CEO Glenn Steele said during a keynote speech at last week's College of Healthcare Information Management Executives annual fall forum in San Antonio, Texas...
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Give Us Our Damn Lab Results!!
Two years ago, the Department of Health and Human Services released proposed regulations that would allow patients to obtain their clinical lab test results directly from the lab, rather than having to wait to receive the results from their health care provider. CDT and other consumer groups enthusiastically supported this proposed rule at the time of its release. Read More »
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Halamaka Takes a Deep Dive on the MACRA NPRM
As promised last week, I’ve read and taken detailed notes on the entire 962 page MACRA notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) so that you will not have to. Although this post is long, it is better than the 20 hours of reading I had to do! Here is everything you need to know from an IT perspective about the MACRA NPRM...What is the MACRA NPRM trying to achieve with regard to healthcare IT? The MACRA NPRM proposes to consolidate components of three existing programs, the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS), the Physician Value-based Payment Modifier (VM), and the Medicare Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program for eligible professionals (EPs), creating a single set of reporting requirements. The rule would sunset payment adjustments under the current PQRS, VM, and the Medicare EHR Incentive Program for eligible professionals...
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Half Of Healthcare Organizations Charge Patients For Copies Of Records
Patient engagement in healthcare is increasingly becoming a priority for organizations, but for patients whose providers don't offer patient portals, most still have to request copies of their paper and electronic medical records...
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Harnessing Drupal And Open Source Within Healthcare
The United States spends around $2 Trillion on healthcare a year, making it the most expensive health system in the World, and yet we consistently rank poorly for key markers such as life expectancy and infant mortality rate. Our system needs to become more agile with increased patient engagement and enrollment in order to create a better and more coordinated care system. Read More »
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