Health IT, Digital Health Interviews | Q/A - HIT Consultant

How Health Information Exchanges Will Drive ACOs

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 Editor's Note: This Q-and-A features Mark Caron, Senior Vice President and CIO of Capital BlueCross. SearchHealthIT.com HIT reporter Don Fluckinger sat down with Caron to discuss how health information exchanges (HIE), a significant component of meaningful use stages 2 and 3, fits into the changing landscape of health care payment models
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Organizing Health Information Exchange with Jonathan Gold, MD Catholic Health Initiatives

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 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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Clinical Documentation Tech Tools w/ Carina Edwards, VP at Nuance

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Interview/podcast with Carina Edwards, VP, Marketing at Nuance Healthcare where she discusses clinical documentation tech tools and it's integration in clinical workflow including the following: ICD-10 Delay Client Impact Importance of CLU Tools CLU Integration in Clinical Workflow Nuance's Future Market Opportunities LISTEN BELOW OR CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD    HIT Consultant: Now given the announcement of the 1 year delay for ICD-10, have you seen any change in clients
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CMS Dr. Thompson Talks Challenges of Meaningful Use Implementation

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CMS Dr. Thompson talks challenges of Meaningful Use implementation IHT2 Editor Joseph F. Jalkiewicz As chief medical officer for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Regional Office in San Francisco, Dr. Thompson serves as the chief CMS clinician for Region IX. She is also the principal liaison with professional organizations in the region with respect to quality improvement and healthcare reform. In advance of the HIT Summit, IHT2 Editor Joseph F. Jalkiewicz spoke with Dr.
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How to Leverage BYOD to Support Meaningful Use w/ Tom Murphy

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How to effectively leverage BYOD to support Meaningful Use and SSO interview/podcast with Tom Murphy, Chief Marketing Officer at Bradford Networks  In part 2, Tom discusses the following: Steps for healthcare organizations to make BYOD a priority How to leverage BYOD to support Meaningful Use Single Sign On Technology in BYOD Future of BYOD LISTEN BELOW OR CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD HIT Consultant: Now with healthcare organizations facing competing priorities of Meaningful Use and
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Interview: Understanding Clinical Language Understanding with Carina Edwards, VP Solutions Marketing at Nuance Healthcare

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There is a growing demand to extract structured, "actionable" information from unstructured (dictated) medical documents. Clinical Language Understanding (CLU) technology allows a computer to read and understand electronic free text and extract data for use in countless applications across the healthcare spectrum.  To understand and learn more about CLU technology, HIT Consultant spoke with Carina Edwards, VP, Solutions Marketing at Nuance Healthcare for a deep dive into: CLU
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Dr. Hon Pak, CEO of Diversinet, Discusses BYOD & Mobile Strategy

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In part 2 of this interview/podcast, HIT Consultant speaks with Dr. Hon Pak , CEO of Diversinet about the following: BYOD Best Practices to Implement Mobile Strategy Telehealth & Remote Patient Monitoring's Implications for Mobility LISTEN BELOW OR CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD HIT Consultant: So, speaking of security and managing that and securing that data, what are your thoughts on this whole controversial issue of BYOD – bring your own device? Dr. Hon Pak: I think a couple
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