Editor's Note: Michelle Longmire, MD is a Stanford-trained physician-entrepreneur and the CEO of Medable Inc., an app and analytics platform for healthcare. Reach her at @LongmireMD.
Medical science is now producing gene-editing technology, implantables, and pills with digestible microchips. The plethora of technologies will sense our body signals and can help predict and prevent illness. Increasingly, humans are becoming machines. We already have wearables, but we will soon have a
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EHRs are Oppressive Straitjackets for the Practice of Medicine
Editor's Note: Margalit Gur-Arie is the founder, BizMed. She writes regularly about the intersection of healthcare & technology on her site: On Health Care Technology. Follow her on Twitter at @margalitgurarie
It was a dark and stormy night. My computer didn’t catch fire while typing the previous sentence. No alarms were triggered warning me about the quality of such opening. I wasn’t prompted to select subjects and predicates from dropdown lists. I typed the entire sentence, letter by
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7 Factors Influencing How Consumers Will Dictate the Doctor Experience in 2016
Editor's Note: Jim Prendergast is a digital health entrepreneur, and the CEO and Co-Founder of HealthiestYou, a telehealth and wellness delivery innovator. Jim recently led the company through a $30 million round of growth funding from Frontier Capital.
The healthcare industry is experiencing a new driver at the wheel. In 2016 this will become more apparent than ever. It’s you. And, it’s me. It is in fact, all of us who want less-hassle healthcare access, cost containment and a complete
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Why Shared Care Plans Is the Future of Care Coordination
A recent study of healthcare organizations showed that most are not prepared to deliver standardized longitudinal care across multiple provider systems. Shared care plans will be the centerpiece of coordinated care delivery, incentivized by the move from fee-for-service to value-based care. In 2015, Medicare unveiled its plan to transition to quality-based payments via the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), which will sunset and subsume earlier quality-encouraging programs, and move
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Can We Balance Civil Liberties with Mental Health Treatment?
Editor's Note: Irv Lichtenwald is president and CEO of Medsphere Systems Corporation, the solution provider for the OpenVista electronic health record.
In January of this year, political analyst Norman Ornstein lost his 34-year-old son, Matthew, to accidental carbon monoxide poisoning. While Matthew’s death was a tragic blow to family and friends, it was not the kind of out-of-the-blue shock that comes with absolutely no forewarning. Matthew, as Ornstein says in a New York Times op-ed
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EPCS and Prior Authorizations: Prescriptions for Better Patient Care
Editor's Note: Stephen Beck, MD, FACP, FHIMSS, currently serves as Chief Medical Informatics Officer at Mercy Health .
In 2010, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) revised regulations to give prescribers the option to write electronic prescriptions for controlled substances (EPCS) such as opioids and ADHD medications, while permitting pharmacies to receive, dispense, and archive these e-scripts. EPCS increases patient and community safety, too. Doctors document everything discreetly
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Hospitals To Reap Millions in CMS Reimbursement Revenue
Like most hospitals, Good Samaritan in St. Vincennes, Indiana was struggling with the typical EHR interoperability plaguing most healthcare facilities in which multiple EHR system cannot share data. However the 232-bed community health-care facility not only solved this common interoperability, but used it to unlock a treasure trove of CMS funds while also improving patient care.
Middleware, used for years to integrate data in financial and retail organizations with its simple open
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5 Hospital Considerations for Implementing an E-Prescribing Solution
Editor’s Note: D’Arcy Gue is one of the co-founders of Phoenix Health Systems, a healthcare IT consulting and outsourcing firm. In April 2015, Phoenix welcomed a merger with Medsphere Systems Corporation and now serves as the vice president of industry relations for Phoenix Health Systems, the health IT services division of Medsphere.
On the face of it, the use of computers to order prescriptions seems like a no-brainer. Who, after all, is capable of reading a physician’s handwriting?
But
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Hospital Cyber-Attacks Could Be Mitigated through Higher Education
Editor's Note: J.A. Eve Krahe, Ph.D. is the dean of graduate programs for University of Phoenix School of Health Services Administration. Prior to joining University of Phoenix, she served as the director of health care innovation programs at Arizona State University.
In his comments to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions in September 2015, Brian Dishman of Intel Corporation described the “constellation” of health data that surrounds each of us. From diagnostic,
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Reimagining Aging: Designing Digital Health Products for Aging Boomers
Editor’s Note: Stuart Karten is the principal of Karten Design, a product innovation consultancy creating positive experiences between people and products specializing in health technology.
The number of adults aged 65 and older will double to nearly 90 million people by 2050. The baby boom generation — the largest in history — aren’t babies anymore. They are taking their unique perspective into their senior years, and that perspective will help shape healthcare for the next several decades.
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