Physician anesthesiologists can now choose from 36 quality reporting measures when participating in the ASA QCDR, the American Society of Anesthesiologists® (ASA®) Qualified Clinical Data Registry (QCDR). The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) approved two new Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) measures and 16 non-PQRS measures developed by ASA and its affiliated organization, Anesthesia Quality Institute (AQI).
With the new quality reporting measures, physician
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HIMSS15 Day 3 Summary and Highlights
Humana CEO Bruce Broussard: Time to Change Business Models and Move Towards Value-Based Payments
In his Tuesday keynote address, Humana’s Broussard called for transformation—and interoperability—in healthcare, Healthcare Informatics reports.
“We have to change the conversation on what we are doing in healthcare from a supply-based system to a system around demand, a system where we put the customer first as opposed to the system,” Broussard said. “Over the years, healthcare has been built
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HHS Launches $1M Community Interoperability HIE Program
National Coordinator for Health IT Karen B. DeSalvo, M.D., M.P.H., M.Sc., announced today the availability of $1 million in grant funds to support community projects for the Community Interoperability Health Information Exchange (HIE) Program. The funding will help support and enable the flow of health information at the community level, leading to better care and better health.
Community Interoperability HIE Program Overview
The Community Interoperability and HIE program will provide funds
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Report: Top 5 Priorities for Health IT Investments in 2015
Driving clinical and operational improvements and enhancing EMRs functionality will be the focus of health IT investments in 2015, according to the results of a new healthcare leadership survey released today by Royal Philips. These investments are focused on direct patient care and supporting collaboration across the care continuum, resulting in financial improvements – another key initiative behind HIT spend.
As hospitals and IDNs adjust priorities to address the shift from volume to
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HIMSS Infographic: Top Priorities for Healthcare IT Leadership
The 26th Annual HIMSS Leadership Survey reflects the experiences and opinions of information technology (IT) professionals in U.S. healthcare provider organizations regarding the use of IT in their organizations. This study covers a wide array of topics crucial to healthcare IT leadership including IT priorities, issues driving and challenging technology adoption, impact on patient engagement, and the level of support that IT has from the Executive team and Board of Directors. Because the
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HIMSS Infographic: The Evolving Role of Informatics Nurses
HIMSS released the results of the 2015 Impact of the Informatics Nurses Survey – a survey of nearly 600 participants including C-suite executives, clinical analysts and informatics nurses. The survey examined the growing technology-driven healthcare ecosystem and the role nursing informatics – a specialty that integrates knowledge, data and wisdom – is playing in this evolving environment. The results indicated that the role of informatics nurses has expanded greatly and is having immense impact
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HIMSS15 Day 2 Summary and Highlights
26th Annual HIMSS Leadership Survey Reveals Top Priorities for Healthcare Leaders
HIMSS released the results of the 26th Annual HIMSS Leadership Survey. The survey of more than 300 participants, examined key trending issues impacting the business of healthcare including patient considerations, security concerns, insurance models and policy mandates. This survey revealed that 72 percent of respondents report that consumer and patient considerations, such as patient engagement,
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IBM to Acquire Explorys & Phytel To Fuel Watson Health Unit
Today IBM announced plans to acquire Explorys, a healthcare intelligence cloud company that has built one of the largest clinical data sets in the world and Phytel, a leading provider of integrated population health management software. The acquisition of both companies strengthens IBM's leadership position in healthcare analytics and cloud computing, and will help bolster its ability to extract and share deep insights to improve wellness and benefit patients.
Explorys and Phytel will now
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InstaMed Brings Apple Pay to Healthcare For First Time
Nearly 20 percent of U.S. consumers with credit records — 42.9 million people — have unpaid medical debts, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. With mobile payments expected to reach grow from $52 billion in 2014 to $142 billion by 2019, the healthcare industry must leverage simple, secure and private payment solution as more consumers enroll in high deductible health plans.
To address the growing consumer need for mobile payments, InstaMed, a healthcare payment network
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AstraZeneca To Use Patient-Reported Data From PatientsLikeMe for Pharma Research
PatientsLikeMe announced this morning a five-year agreement with AstraZeneca to provide patient-reported data in support of the pharmaceutical company's research initiatives. This is a first of its kind agreement for AstraZeneca and signals an intent to increasingly engage the patient voice in development programs. It's also a collaboration that we both believe will transform the discovery process, and help create products and services tailored to what patients really
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