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Access to EHR Notes Lauded by Patients, Providers
From article in in the May issue of HealthLeaders magazine. In a pilot, a system which permits patients to view all the notes in their electronic health records was such a hit with hospital patients and physicians that Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Geisinger Health System are dramatically expanding their OpenNotes programs. Possibly [...]
Read moreAn End to Medical-Billing Secrecy?
Article By Steven Brill From Time Magazine, May 08, 2013 Our hospital bill is about to get a thorough examination. Acting on the suggestion of her top data crunchers at the department’s Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius released an enormous data file on May 8 that [...]
Read moreUnder Obamacare program, doctor visits would become data points
Article in Washington Post April 23, 2013 A new nonprofit is putting millions of Obamacare dollars towards an effort to turn routine doctor visits into a treasure trove of data on what medical treatments work best. The Affordable Care Act created the Patient Centered Research Outcomes Institute (PCORI) to support comparative effectiveness research, studies that [...]
Read moreCleveland Clinic app helps connect patients, doctors, trials
Posted on MibiHealthNews April 15, 2013 Cleveland Clinic has built an app to help both physicians and patients find cancer clinical trials. The app, available for free from the iOS AppStore and the Google Play store, allows users to search the Cleveland Clinic’s the 130 active clinical trials by disease, phase, hospital location, or doctor. [...]
Read moreAdministration pushes toward electronic medical records
Article first posted on TheHill.com – April 8, 2013 The Obama administration is moving to ease the national transition from paper to electronic health records through a pair of proposed rules to be published this week. The rules, to hit Tuesday’s Federal Register, would update and extend existing regulations surrounding the sharing of patient electronic [...]
Read moreHIMSS: Should Healthcare Be More Like Airline Industry?
From March 5, 2013 article on InformationWeek Healthcare Such a comparison says not only that the healthcare industry must change, but also that those changes will be dramatic and gut wrenching. The boldest thing I heard at my first day at HIMSS 13, the big healthcare IT event this week in New Orleans, was that [...]
Read moreThe Face of Future Health Care
From New York Times Article – March 20, 2013 OAKLAND, Calif. — When people talk about the future of health care, Kaiser Permanente is often the model they have in mind. The organization, which combines a nonprofit insurance plan with its own hospitals and clinics, is the kind of holistic health system that President Obama’s [...]
Read moreThe Doctor Is In (Well, Logged In)
From March 19, 2013 Article in the New York Times Surfing the Web in his all-white Dumbo loft, Dr. Jay Parkinson, 37, looks like any other young tech visionary. He has a trim beard and thick-framed glasses. He wears slim-fitting black outfits and jaunty scarves. He speaks with a measured, “This American Life”-like cadence. And [...]
Read moreCan Twitter help predict epidemics?
From article posted in The Salt Lake Tribune – March 6, 2013 Twitter users send around 500 million tweets a day, an endless fire hose of information about how people feel, what they’re doing, what they know and where they are. For epidemiologists and public health officials, it’s a potential gold mine of data, [...]
Read moreCan the Cleveland Clinic Save American Health Care?
Salaried doctors. Great care. The administration used them as a model and a goal for Obamacare. But will it work outside of Cleveland? From Story by Megan McArdle featured in The Daily Beast February 26, 2013 “The best doctors are not motivated by money.” It’s a common sentiment (this particular example comes from the comments [...]
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