Telemedicine is about reaching out to patients in remote locations, but limited to videoconferencing between patients and health providers. It is similar to a face-to-face service with the exception that the patient and primary care provider are not physically together. Such efficient is limited in term of scope and only addresses the geographical challenge and scarcity of physician availability, a far cry from what CMS wanted for its Chronic Care Management Services (CMS) which would
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Are Physicians Really Dissatisfied with EHRs? Should We Be Concerned?
Editor’s Note: Irv Lichtenwald is president and CEO of Medsphere Systems Corporation, the solution provider for the OpenVista electronic health record. Prior to joining Medsphere, he served as CFO of Advent Software, a leading provider of investment management solutions. Between 1995 and 2003, Irv led Advent through three public stock offerings.
Microsoft Office was first introduced by Bill Gates at COMDEX, Las Vegas, in August, 1988.
Here we are almost exactly 27 years later, and if you
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Can A Patient Experience Survey Truly Measure the Doctor-Patient Relationship?
Can we infer from a highly scored experience survey that the patient has a useful relationship with her doctor? Not really.
Sixty years ago, before he became a controversial figure in the field of psychiatry, Dr. Thomas S. Szasz co-authored an article for the Archives of Internal Medicine (now JAMA Internal Medicine) on “The Basic Models of the Doctor-Patient Relationship”, which is well worth reading today, particularly for those who believe that patient empowerment/engagement is a novel and
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What Is The Future Impact of Population Health Management?
Editor's Note: Erdem Asma MSM, PMP is a healthcare executive with more than 15 years of healthcare technology implementations experience supporting business requirements for both HIS vendors and healthcare organizations globally.
“Awareness of a problem does not mean much, particularly when you have special interests and self-serving institutions in play.” - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The term population health is how new medicine should be able to identify a population and predicting what
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5 Reasons Why Physicians Are Frustrated with EHR Adoption
EHR adoption is inevitable for healthcare, but physicians are increasingly frustrated. It's time we asked why.
Whether it's the UK, US or Middle East it's clear that EHR systems are the future of healthcare. However, endless reports show that clinicians are increasingly unhappy with what they're being given and it's impacting technology adoption and eventually patient care. So what's going wrong?
1. Workflow Issues
One of the biggest issues with EHR systems is that they often
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Health Plan Mergers: 5 Steps for Harvesting IT Integration Savings
Editor's Note: This post is written by Albert Ghafari, a founding partner and Bryan Komornik, a Senior Manager in the management consulting practice at Invoyent, a Chicago-based consulting firm dedicated to helping payer and software clients transform the healthcare industry by delivering clear, market-driven strategies that serve their customers and improve the lives of members.
The Aetna-Humana and Cigna-Anthem merger announcements represent a growing trend toward consolidation in
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FHIR Will Not Save Us: We Need National Patient Identifiers
Editor’s Note: Irv Lichtenwald is president and CEO of Medsphere Systems Corporation, the solution provider for the OpenVista electronic health record. Prior to joining Medsphere, he served as CFO of Advent Software, a leading provider of investment management solutions. Between 1995 and 2003, Irv led Advent through three public stock offerings.
Graham Grieve is a data architect who thinks like a mountain climber.
“You build a mountain, you stand on top of it and see a bigger mountain
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DoD EHR Contract: Will It Impact the Larger EHR Market?
How will the DoD EHR contract affect the orders of magnitude in the larger commercial EHR market. Will Cerner leapfrog Epic and become the EHR of choice for large health systems?
The health information technology (HIT) world has been hit by a watershed event like no other. The Department of Defense (DoD), widely respected for its indiscriminate generosity to contractors, has awarded the most coveted prize in recent HIT memory – the Defense Healthcare Management Systems Modernization (DHMSM)
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Why EMR Patient Portal Technology Isn’t the Answer
In the 80's there was a popular phrase in the IT space: "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM." Buying IBM was a "safe bet" that wouldn't get questions or scrutiny from company leadership. The same today could be said about EMRs. Purchasing one of the "Big 3" EMR systems to meet federal requirements for incentive programs has been a no-brainer for the last decade.
However, now that meaningful use of those records by patients is necessary, many medical professionals are struggling with their
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Is Accountability The Missing Element in Better Healthcare?
Editor’s Note: Irv Lichtenwald is president and CEO of Medsphere Systems Corporation, the solution provider for the OpenVista electronic health record. Prior to joining Medsphere, he served as CFO of Advent Software, a leading provider of investment management solutions. Between 1995 and 2003, Irv led Advent through three public stock offerings.
Who is accountable for the actions of Adam Lanza, the troubled young man who in December 2012 killed 26 people in Newtown, Connecticut?
He is, of
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