Robert B. McCray is the President & CEO of the Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance. Rob recently spoke with HIT Consultant to discuss some of the key takeaways from this year's Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance Convergence Summit that was held in May and his thoughts on the growing connected health space.
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Meaningful Use The Stats [Infographic Wednesdays]
Greenway Medical infographic provides a visual overview of Meaningful Use EHR Incentive Program payments, registration, and attestations.
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5 Strengths That Women Executives Bring To The Redesign Of The Patient Experience
Dr. Bridget Duffy, MD, Chief Experience Officer, Experia Health shares 5 strengths women executives bring to the redesign of the patient experience.
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Organizing Health Information Exchange with Jonathan Gold, MD Catholic Health Initiatives
Jonathan Gold, MD, regional chief medical informatics officer for Catholic Health Initiatives, discusses his vision for organizing health information exchange and developing physician workflow in this interview with SearchHealthIT.
Health information exchange is not just about establishing a repository of static data that sits and waits for people to access it. Instead, clinicians and health IT experts are considering ways that turn data into actionable, meaningful information that can be
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Population Health Management – A Physician’s Perspective
Dr. Paul D. Taylor, M.D., Wellcentive's Chief Medical Information Officer, shares insights on Population Health Management from his perspective as a physician - from simplifying the process of meeting quality benchmarks to the benefits of clinical decision support, and much more.
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Power of Social Media: Aetna CEO Pay Cancer Student’s Medical Bill
Arijit Guha, a graduate student suffering from Stage IV colon cancer utilizes Twitter to convince Aetna CEO to cover 'every last penny' of his 114k medical bill showcases the growing power of social media
Arijit Guha, an Arizona State University graduate student with Stage IV colon cancer faced with a 114k and rising medical bills whose medical policy ran out half way through his treatment waged a Twitter war against Aetna's CEO Mark T. Bertolini with him agreeing to "cover every last
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The High Cost of HIPAA Violations [Infographic Wednesdays]
Infographic details some of the most serious penalties ever given by the federal government for the high cost of HIPAA violations.
Security breaches have increased over 32% over the past year in healthcare organizations costing an estimated 6.5 billion dollars annually according to a study by the Ponemon Institute. Last week, the HHS office for Civil Rights issued its first enforcement action against the state of Alaska settling with Alaska’s Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) for
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5 Devices Physicians Need to Know About
In the following video from Medscape, Dr. Eric Topol, author of The Creative Destruction of Medicine, will discuss how technology is changing medicine and demonstrate 5 devices physicians need to know about.
Image courtesy of Shutterstock
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How Patients Learn in the Digital Age [Infographic Wednesdays]
Infographic that surveyed non-MD healthcare professionals of how patients learn in the digital age utilizing technology for patient education
Sick with the flu and cannot find an available primary care physician? Chances are you are one of the 65 million Americans who live in an area that doesn’t have enough primary-care coverage, according to Health Resources and Services Administration. Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, a projected 30 million more newly insured patients will enter the
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ONC Chief Farzad Mostashari States Nobody Has Transformed Care Delivery Without IT
Last week, the Health Forum and American Hospital Association Leadership Summit was held in San Francisco, CA. The overall theme of the leadership summit was getting from the first curve to the second curve creating the value proposition on how hospitals implement health information technology. During the summit, Matthew Weinstock, Senior Editor of Hospitals and Health Networks sat down with ONC Chief Farzad Mostashari, M.D. to discuss some of the trends he sees in health IT
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