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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Do EHRs Make Patients Safer?
Written by Ahmed Mori, Content Writer for Care Cloud
There is an ongoing debate as to whether or not EHRs actually make patients safer. Sure, doctors using electronic health records boast fewer malpractice claims – Harvard Medical School reports that malpractice claims for physicians using EHRs tally in at one-sixth of the total of malpractice claims for physicians who haven’t yet implemented a system.
That’s fine and dandy, but what about your patients? Can you make them safer with your
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Power of Open Data and Innovation for Health Care with Todd Park
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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White Paper: How to Achieve an ROI for Healthcare BI
White paper written by Jim B-Reay, Aspen Advisors
Abstract: As hospitals make significant investments in electronic medical record (EMR) technology, along with related updates to hospital billing, materials management, costing, and quality systems, they typically find that the promised analytics and reporting are not adequate. To tie together data from these disparate systems and even to optimize access to data within an integrated system, a Business Intelligence (BI) strategy is
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5 Ways Healthcare Organizations Can Reduce Security Breaches
5 ways healthcare organizations can reduce occurrences of security breaches to combat the growing epidemic of security breaches in healthcare.
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Video: 2011 mHealth Summit Day One Highlights
The 2011 mHealth Summit in Washington D.C. kicked off with an opening keynote from Eric J. Topol, MD, WWHI and Kathleen Sebelius, US Dept of Health & Human Services. In her key note, Sebellius stated, "in the iTunes store alone, there are nearly 12,000 apps related to health." The video below provides some key highlights of Kathleen Sebelius discussing mHealth and its role in the larger landscape of national healthcare.
300 exhibitors including tech giants and startups lined the
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How to Measure the ROI of Healthcare Technology
Measuring ROI can be broken down into soft costs -- such as patient satisfaction and provider stress -- and hard costs -- those that can be calculated to show a financial return, like improved patient throughput, reducing errors, limiting provider liability and improving cash flow by stimulating faster reimbursements.
It's not uncommon to hear about significant returns in the millions thanks to better coding processes and prescription error reduction.
At one Massachusetts hospital network,
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23% of U.S. Hospitals Plan to Invest in Patient Access Solutions for Eligibility
CapSite™ announces the release of the 2011 U.S. Patient Access Study. The study represents the latest in a series of CapSite strategic industry reports focused on the Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) market.The statistically significant study represents unique Voice of Customer (VOC) insight from more than 500 U.S. hospitals on the market opportunity, market share, vendor mind share and adoption of various Patient Access solutions
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