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Nina Seth, Accellion's healthcare expert, discusses the ACA data security challenges and explores the move towards utilizing technology to streamline healthcare operations.
As have most areas, the healthcare industry is beginning to fall victim to consumerization. Its an interesting shift, because while healthcare services are built upon the fact that human beings need individual support and care, much of the industry has run for decades as if its
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Top 3 Investment Areas for Population Health Management
Advisory Board survey results explore trends in the top three investment areas for population health management
The Care Transformation Center at the Advisory Board surveyed 180 healthcare provider systems, standalone community hospitals, academic medical centers, and physician practices from July-October 2013 to offer a unique snapshot of population health managers' investment priorities. Key highlights of the survey include:
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8 Best Practices to Improve Patient Payments
New white paper from AdvancedMD offers eight best practices to improve patient payments
Private practices are now among the largest unsecured credit grantors in the country. In fact, more than $1 out of every $4 of practice revenue is the patient's responsibility. How did we get to this point? As the money from insurance companies decreases, patient portions have increased. As a result, both patient liability and bad debt are on the rise and healthcare providers are experiencing unprecedented
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New Public Health Mobile App Uses CMS Medicare Data to Empower Consumers
New public health mobile app for the iPad uses CMS Medicare data to provide critical insights into public health data that can improve healthcare and lower cost.
MicroStrategy, provider of enterprise software platforms has launched a free, innovative mobile information app based on public data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and United States Census Bureau.
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Apple Unveils HealthKit To Transform Mobile Health, Partners with Mayo Clinic, Epic, Nike
Today, Apple introduced its highly anticipated digital health tracking platform at WWDC named HealthKit. The Healthbook app simply called "Health" in iOS8 will be used as a central location on the device to track health data from apps and devices used for recording health and fitness data. The company also announced partnerships with Mayo Clinic, Epic Systems, Nike and other leading healthcare providers to enable seamless integration between clinicians and users.
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Intersecting Trends in HIT: Population Health Management & Business Intelligence
72.5% of healthcare organizations are integrating clinical and claims data to better manage population health. In order to successfully take advantage of that data to improve care coordination, healthcare providers must learn to utilize population health management and business intelligence tools. The infographic shown below created by CDW Healthcare illustrates how population health management and business intelligence tools are playing a bigger role in the changing HIT landscape.
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Case Study: EHR Voice Recognition vs. Laptop EHR Entry
A Day in the Life of a Nurse with VoiceFirst
Learn how VoiceFirst's EHR voice recognition solution promotes overall clinical efficiency by reducing documentation time, increasing time for direct patient care, streamlining workflows, and increasing clinician job satisfaction.
EHR voice overlay profoundly changes the way nurses and clinicians retrieve patient information and document care. Using intuitive voice commands and real-time audio feedback from the EHR, clinicians can increase
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Study: Meaningful Use Stage 1 Alters Sequence of EHR Adoption for Hospitals
A recent study conducted by researchers from the University of Michigan found that Meaningful Use stage 1 is likely changing how hospitals sequence EHR adoption. Using data from the 2008 American Hospital Association (AHA) Information Technology (IT) Supplement data, the researchers calculated the adoption rates of individual EHR functions, along with Loevinger homogeneity (H) coefficients, to assess the sequence of EHR adoption across hospitals. They then compared the adoption rates and
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5 Key Barriers to EHR Replacement for Providers
New NextGen white paper focuses on five key barriers to EHR replacement holding most practices back from moving ahead with a much needed replacement of their EHR.
Replacing your current EHR is no easy undertaking. But it’s becoming a common trend, with about half of all providers currently unsatisfied with their EHR. Concern over EHR replacement costs can keep you up at night, but the benefits on the other side of replacement will make it all worthwhile. In fact, after a successful EHR
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Global Physician Digital Health Engagement Opportunity Map
Manhattan Research surveyed over 7,000 doctors from 17 countries to understand their technology behaviors, information seeking preferences and ways they research pharma products to identify opportunities for physician digital health engagement. The Global Physician Digital Engagement Opportunity Map shown below identifies the top two pharma engagement opportunities by country.
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