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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InterSystems Brings Big Data Expertise to Global Alliance for Genomics and Health
InterSystems to support industry standards for sharing genome sequencing data, and contribute expertise in big data and health informatics
InterSystems, a global leader in software for connected care, has joined the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH), an alliance of 148 of the world’s leading biomedical research institutions, healthcare providers, information technology and life science companies, funders of research, and disease and patient advocacy organizations.
Meeting
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What is the Future Role of EHRs in the Health IT Ecosystem?
What is the future role of EHRs? Dr. Robert Rowley shares his insights.
Some very interesting trends are occurring in the health IT arena, which raise the question of what role Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems will have in the future. A few years ago, the focus for health care professionals and hospitals was EHR acquisition and implementation, as well as qualification and access to federal incentive money from the EHR Incentive Program (Meaningful Use).
This year, as could be
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Proposed Health IT Standards Would Facilitate Better Care and Outcomes for Patients and Families
Debra L. Ness, president, National Partnership for Women & Families issues statement on how the proposed health IT standards would facilitate better care and outcomes for patients and families.
“The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking issued for the voluntary 2015 edition of electronic health record (EHR) technology certification criteria is an important next step in the ongoing effort to ensure health information technology (health IT) facilitates better care, better outcomes, and lower
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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: State of Mobile Technologies in Healthcare Today
HIMSS infographic illustrates the state of mobile technologies in healthcare.
Today, HIMSS Analytics released its 3rd Annual Mobile Survey, which examines the mHealth landscape and examines the use of mobile devices in provider patient care improvement initiatives.
The Survey, which reflects the responses of 298 respondents from more than 650 U.S. hospitals, offers examples of progress made and hurdles providers face when integrating mobile technologies into their facilities to improve
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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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