Deloitte and NNEACC collaborate to offer value-based care solution called "Insight" that will help lower costs and manage the risks
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Survey: 95% of Healthcare CEOs Are Exploring Big Data Strategies and Solutions
95% of healthcare CEOs are exploring better ways of using and managing big data, according to a recent PwC survey.
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Lawmakers Urge Obama Admin to Leverage Meaningful Use Program to Reduce Health Disparities
House reps recommend Obama administration leverage stage 3 Meaningful Use program to reduce health disparities.
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The Great Divide: Some Closing Thoughts on HIMSS14
Walking the halls of the Orlando Convention Center at HIMSS14 this past week, I was aware of a great divide.
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Mayo Clinic Study Reveals Patient Portals Had Little Impact on Face to Face Visits
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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