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ONC Chief Farzad Mostashari States Nobody Has Transformed Care Delivery Without IT

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Last week, the Health Forum and American Hospital Association Leadership Summit was held in San Francisco, CA.  The overall theme of the leadership summit was getting from the first curve to the second curve creating the value proposition on how hospitals implement health information technology. During the summit, Matthew Weinstock, Senior Editor of Hospitals and Health Networks sat down with ONC Chief Farzad Mostashari, M.D. to discuss some of the trends he sees in health IT
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Video: How to Enhance Your Health IT Capabilities

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Effective health IT organisations cannot focus exclusively on technology alone. How you manage your IT function, in terms of critical organisational capabilities and management activities are just as important to enabling better patient care and improved business value outcomes. Intel Corporation, Innovation Value Institute, HIMSS Analytics USA and HIMSS Analytics Europe have come together to create an industry leading programme for hospitals to enhance their IT organisational capabilities
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Power of Open Data and Innovation for Health Care with Todd Park

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 Todd Park, U.S. CTO discusses unleashing the power of open data and innovation for health care  Great video with Todd Park, U.S. Chief Technology Officer; Former CTO, Health and Human Services (HHS) discussing how innovation for healthcare will continue to affect changes to our health-care system, create jobs and improve life for Americans. He will focus on his current work and how Healthcare.gov (which he helped create in his previous position as CTO of HHS) is being incorporated to help
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Video: Telehealth Pilot Project at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital

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Packard Children's is partnering with Cisco Systems to meet the needs of families in our community and beyond. The video shown below is an overview of their  innovative telehealth network promises to bring our world-class care to the patients, rather than the other way around. Given the recent Supreme Court Ruling on the individual mandate, Telehealth is one of the key areas that will spur innovation as a result of the ruling.
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Video: Dr. Oz Talks Technology Challenges in Physician Practices

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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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Video: How to Fill Coding Documentation Gaps When Converting to ICD-10

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Here is a recent ICD-10 Summit Wrap up video interview with Mary Stanfill, MBI, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, FAHIMA, vice president of HIM consulting services at UASI talks about coding documentation gaps and the best ways to fill them in converting to ICD-10. Stanfill provides the following tips on addressing coding documentation gaps: Identifying high risk areas suchas surgical procedures for amputations must be coded as mid, high, or low in order code the case Improve physician/clinician
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Video: Where Does Accountable Care Start?

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Hospitals considering accountable care strategies have plenty of options to choose from, but deciding where to begin can be confusing. Joseph Damore, Vice President of Engagement and Delivery for Premier, answers the following questions during this video interview: How can hospitals engage staff in Accountable Care? What can hospitals do to transition from fee for service to population health? Will the Accountable Care movement continue regardless of the fate of healthcare reform?
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