A recent Mayo Clinic study reveals secure messages and electronic visits (‘‘e-visits’’) through patient portals had no significant impact on adult primary care face to face visits, iHealthBeat reports.
The study found that patients sending the most messages had higher numbers of face to face visit both before and after implementation of messaging; however, the frequency of their visits did not change.
Study Background
The study published in the journal Telemedicine and e-Health examined
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ONC Releases Report on Effects of Meaningful Use Functionalities on Healthcare Quality, Safety, and Efficiency
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has released an updated Health IT Dashboard with the results of a comprehensive literature of the impacts of health IT titled: Health Information Technology: An Updated Systematic Review with a Focus on Meaningful Use Functionalities. The report is focused specifically on identifying and summarizing the evidence relating to the use of health IT as outlined in the Meaningful Use regulations.
Research
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EHR Vendor Develops EHR App for Google Glass to Improve Clinician-Patient Interaction
Ambulatory care market EHR vendor, IOS Health Systems (IOS) has deployed a native EHR App for Google Glass aimed to improve clinician-patient interaction. Their current Medios platform is web-based and accessible on any device (iPad, Android, Smart Phone, Mac, PC, etc) and any browser, making it remarkably simple for physicians to adopt and use within their organizations.
How it Works
The Medios-Glass application which works directly with the ONC-ATCB certified Medios EHR
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7 Best Practices for Developing Successful Diabetes Mobile Apps
New report reveals diabetes mobile apps fall short of meeting best practice standards.
Most of the current diabetes mobile apps on the market fail to comply with standards that are widely accepted in the rest of the app market, according to Ralf-Gordon Jahns, founder of market research & consultancy Research 2 Guidance. In their latest study on the mobile health app market titled, “Diabetes App Market Report 2014” reveals diabetic apps failed to utilize their full potential and were
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Monitoring Services Remains Most Dominant Mobile Health Market Segment
Monitoring services is expected to remain the most dominant and fastest growing mobile health market segment, according to a new study by Grand View Research, Inc. The study found monitoring services market revenue reached of $1,227.5 million in 2012 with an estimated CAGR of 49.% from 2014 to 2020. Chronic disease management was also cited as the largest contributor to the monitoring services market, with higher demand from developed markets of North America and Europe.
Other key findings
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Can A Talking Dog Help Providers Reduce Hospital Readmissions?
GeriJoy's new CORE program enables its talking pet companion to help clinicians better evaluate and mitigate the primary risk factors
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Physician First ACO Selects eClinicalWorks for Population Health Management
eClinicalWorks, a leader in ambulatory healthcare IT solutions, announced that Central Florida's Physician First ACO has selected eClinicalWorks Care Coordination Medical Record® (CCMR) for advancing its physician-led Accountable Care Organization (ACO) objectives across 22 practices, including coordinating care across the continuum, evaluating population health and quality improvement activities. Physician First was named an ACO earlier this year by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
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New Financing Program Minimizes Impact of ICD-10 Revenue Delay for Private Practices
New financing program aims to minimize the impact of ICD-10 revenue delay or lock-up by providing two funding options to provide a safety net for private practices.
Of the 298 CIOs and other IT leaders that participated in the HIMSS Leadership Survey, seventy percent said meeting ICD-10 requirements was their #1 priority. For private physicians, meeting ICD-10 by October is a serious hurdle. If they don’t get it right, it could cause a major cash crunch.
ADP AdvancedMD, a company
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Infographic: 2014 Nursing Informatics Workforce Survey
Today at HIMSS 2014, HIMSS released the results of the 2014 HIMSS Nursing Informatics Workforce Survey, which examines the roles, responsibilities and outlook for nursing informatics professionals. The 2014 Survey captures current professional status and practice trends, while identifying changes that have occurred over the last nine years in the nursing informatics workforce.
The Survey, supported by the HIMSS Nursing Informatics Community, continues to suggest that nurse informaticists play
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Verizon Converged Health Management Receives New FDA Clearance, Adds Two New Biometric Devices
Verizon’s Converged Health Management, a remote patient-monitoring medical platform designed to help clinicians and patients manage patients’ health in between doctor visits, just received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance to run on the iOS (Apple, Inc.) mobile operating system.
Patients and clinicians now will be able to access Verizon’s solution on their iPhones and can use their iPads to access the Converged Health Management portal.
In addition, Converged Health
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