Mehmet Oz, MD, host of TV's Dr. Oz Show and a heart surgeon at New York Presbyterian Hospital, shares his views on current business and technology challenges facing small physician practices. One of the key gaps Dr. Oz highlights is the lack of a repository of trusted health information and the importance of collecting information prior to the patient's visit to enhance the patient care.
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Interview: Understanding Clinical Language Understanding with Carina Edwards, VP Solutions Marketing at Nuance Healthcare
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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3 Implications of 3M’s Open Source Health Data Dictionary
Last month, 3M Health Information Systems released their Health Data Dictionary as open source software making it free and available worldwide. The open source contract is part of an agreement with U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), 3M Healthcare Data Dictionary will provide the core technology to enable semantic interoperability for the joint DoD/VA integrated Electronic Health Record (iEHR), making it possible to share medical knowledge and secure patient
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Texting: A Do or Don’t for Doctors?
According a recent Johnson & Coker report, 80% of doctors use smartphones. In addition to making calls and using apps, docs are using their smartphones to take advantage of one of today’s most convenient forms of communication: the text message.
Unlike so much about healthcare – treatment plans, wait times, the reimbursement cycle – texting is quick. And for doctors, as for everyone with thumbs, texting offers a simple way to communicate that doesn’t require making a call, writing down a
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Video: Health IT’s Role in Security, Big Data and Mobility
In this informal discussion at HIMSS Europe in Copenhagen, Intel's Malcolm Linington, Yves Mahieu from EMC, and Frank Nydam, CTO Healthcare, VMware, discuss cloud computing, security, big data, mobility in healthcare IT, and how the three companies work together to support healthcare CIOs and organizations.
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Could Technology Be Driving The High Cost of Healthcare?
Written by Ahmed Mori at Care Cloud:
You wouldn’t know it from the overwhelming amount of positive press it receives, but amplified use of technology in healthcare could be one of the driving factors behind the high cost of healthcare in the United States.
However, it’s not the technology that you’re thinking of.
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Survey: Resistance to Workflow as Leading Obstacle to CPOE Adoption
Imprivata announces the results of its 5th annual survey examining IT trends in healthcare reporting resistance to workflow changes as the leading obstacle to CPOE adoption
Imprivata, the leader in secure access and collaboration for healthcare, announced this week the results of its fifth annual survey examining IT trends in healthcare. According to this year’s findings:
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ONC Releases Guide to Privacy and Security of Health Information
ONC's Office of the Chief Privacy Officer (OCPO) recently released a "Guide to Privacy and Security of Health Information,"* an instructional guide designed to
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The WiFi Revolution in Healthcare IT
Written by Irene Froehlich, Director of Marketing at Dr First discussing the WiFi revolution in healthcare IT
Healthcare is on the verge of a revolution in mobile technology thanks to WiFi.
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KLAS Report: 55% of Providers Planning to Buy Business Intelligence Tools Over 3 Yrs
According to a the recent KLAS report released this week, over half of healthcare providers are looking to purchase business intelligence tools over the net years signaling a tidal wave of growth as the industry search for solutions to help them combat a number of regulatory challenges such as ACO, HIE, and others.
The KLAS report, Business Intelligence Perception 2012: A Wave is Coming, was created from data collected between January and March representing 137 unique healthcare provider
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