Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois (BCBSIL) has signed an agreement to launch an innovative new value-based care model with DuPage Medical Group (DMG), the largest independent physician practice in the Chicago area, with more than 425 doctors. Traditionally in a fee-for-service delivery model, reimbursement is based on specific services provided to patients; rewarding providers for the volume of services they provide. In value-based care, payment to providers is associated with meeting
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Doximity’s Social Network for Doctors Tops 500K Members
Doximity, the leading medical network, today announced it has crossed the 500,000 member milestone. In just over four years since launch, nearly two-thirds of US physicians have joined to Doximity to connect, collaborate, and collectively provide better care for their patients.
Benefits of Doximity's Medical Network
3 ways physicians are using Doximity's social network include:
1. HIPAA-secure communication
Dr. Sandeep Krishnan, cardiologist in California, used Doximity’s free
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Yelp Integrates ER Wait Times, CMS Data Into Hospital Review Ratings
Yelp, a consumer review company has announced an innovative partnership with New York-based investigative journalism not-for-profit ProPublica to integrate health care statistics and consumer opinion survey data onto the Yelp business pages of more than 25,000 medical treatment facilities.
Partnership Overview
The information is compiled by ProPublica from their own research and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for 4,600 hospitals, 15,000 nursing homes, and 6,300
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NTT DATA Acquires Exclusive Rights to InteHealth Technology
NTT DATA, Inc., a leading IT services provider, announced it has acquired global exclusive rights to InteHealth, Inc.'sinnovative technology applications and solutions. The offering will allow healthcare payers and providers to establish a seamless connection to share information among key stakeholders. As a major component of electronic health record’s (EHR) meaningful use, this exclusivity agreement will allow NTT DATA to continue offering leading comprehensive solutions that bridge the gap
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3 Keys to Improving Privacy & Security Protections for Electronic Health Information Exchange
Increasing reports of cyber theft of patient information via hacking—most recently of UCLA Health System, EHR vendor Medical Informatics Engineering and its patient portal NoMoreClipboard, and, earlier, of Anthem and Premera—suggest these data breaches will continue as criminals increasingly seeking out medical data because the data contain links to financial and insurance information.
Why Is Healthcare Data So Vulnerable?
So, why is healthcare data so vulnerable? The answer is simple:
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Baptist Health South Florida to Implement Cerner EHR, Replaces Siemens Clinicals
Baptist Health South Florida has announced it will implement Cerner Millennium and HealtheIntent across all of the system's hospitals, physician offices and outpatient locations. As part of the implementation, Cerner will enhance the organization's existing Cerner Soarian Financials revenue cycle management solutions (RCM), providing Baptist Health with an integrated, enterprise-wide HIT system.
"With the responsibility for more than 1 million patient visits each year and nearly
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Dell Named Founding Health IT Partner for The Innovation Institute
The Innovation Institute announced that Dell Services has agreed to become the founding health care information technology partner of The Institute’s Innovation Lab in Newport Beach, CA. As world-class corporate health-care incubator, The Institute’s Innovation Lab facilitates innovation among inventors, health care plan providers, medical facilities, physicians and more, furthering developing and then introducing new solutions into the health care marketplace.
Partnership Details
Through
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WEDI ICD-10 Survey Reveals Physician Practices Lagging Behind
While much of the industry is getting closer to ICD-10 readiness, only about 20 percent of physician practices have started or completed external testing and less than 50 percent responded that they were ready or would be ready for Oct. 1, according to recent Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) industry preparedness survey results. In a letter sent to the Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary, WEDI shared findings from its June 2015 ICD-10 Industry Readiness Survey, strongly
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Protecode and NHS Announce Code4Health Competition
Protecode, an innovative provider of open source license management systems, today announced a collaboration with the British National Health Service (NHS) and Source Code Control Limited to launch the Code4Health competition, aimed at identifying quality software projects within the NHS’s Code4Health Custodian model.
The competition on managing compliance and vulnerabilities in open source software (OSS) is intended to highlight governance and security weaknesses that should be avoided by
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AMA Supports Legislative Effort to Revise Meaningful Use
This week, the American Medical Association (AMA) declared its strong support for new legislation responding to the depths of doctors’ dissatisfaction with the federal government’s Meaningful Use program. The bill introduced by U.S. Rep. Renee Ellmers from North Carolina would address many problems in the Meaningful Use Program by introducing needed flexibility and enhancing EHR to improve patient care and access to health information.
The Meaningful Use program has spurred 80 percent of
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