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Editor's Picks
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HHS Offers $60M Grants for Strategic Health IT Projects
The Department of Health and Human Services is providing $60 million in grants for projects to help the healthcare industry overcome barriers to the meaningful use of health IT. It will target four areas: Security and risk mitigation policies, patient-centered cognitive support research, healthcare application and network platform architectures to exchange and use health IT securely, privately, and accurately, and the secondary use of healthcare data. [Read More]
The virtual visit may expand access to doctors
OptumHealth, a division of UnitedHealth Group, plans to offer virtual doctor visits starting next year in the state of Texas. The program, called NowClinic, connects patients and doctors using video chat. Advocates for the technology say that "online medicine is a less expensive way of providing routine care" in this New York Times article. But critics are concerned that the quality of care patients receive will suffer without a physical exam. [Read More]
Your iPhone just called: Your blood-sugar is high
Will patients finally get better about managing their health and that of their loved ones with the help of smart phones? Currently, only about 3% of U.S. consumers put their medical information online in personal-health records, according to Forrester Research. This article in the Wall Street Journal shows how one patient is keeping tabs on the doctor appointments and medication lists of his elderly father, who lives 80 miles away; how a patient is monitoring her asthma daily with a free mobile application; and how another person improved her diet and health with a free body-weight, exercise, calorie, and energy tracker that can be accessed through an iPhone. [Read More]
Success Story: Sisters of Mercy Health
Learn how the Sisters of Mercy implemented changes to improve service quality through IBM Service Management solutions. These solutions facilitate a business process transformation that fosters a culture of productivity and continuous improvement. Download the free copy of Success Story: Sisters of Mercy Health. (This headline is sponsored by IBM.) [Read More]
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Tech Headlines
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Hospital comparisons soon to be a click away in Ohio
Associated Press/Boston Globe - December 23, 2009
Senate Passes Health Reform Bill, 60-39
Columbus Dispatch - December 22, 2009
IBM financing health technology to gain from stimulus
Bloomberg.com - December 29, 2009
HHS to build universal claims database for health research
Government Health IT - December 29, 2009
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Webcasts
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January 22, 2010: Joint Replacement Service Lines: Alignment and Business Strategies for a Changing Environment
On Demand: Women's Health: Building a More Profitable Service Line With Existing Assets
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One kid, 3 ER admissions, 12 back-end systems. One eHealth ecoSystem. Learn how MEDSEEK is improving the patient experience.
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Harnessing effective asset management in an uncertain economy from IBM
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Building a successful validation process and compliance support with IBM Maximo solutions
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Managing healthcare assets and optimizing asset utilization with IBM asset management tools
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Learn how Sisters of Mercy Health achieved its asset management goals in partnership with IBM
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Emerging Service Lines Hospitals that lead the way in emerging service lines may find themselves positioned to be market leaders in the future. Here's a look at which services are emerging and why. [Read More]
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IT Forum
Evaluating and Addressing the Need for an Effective EMPI: An inefficient master patient index results in inappropriate, delayed, and duplicate treatments, which can create a life-threatening situation due to inaccurate medical records and clinical information at the point of care. Inefficient MPI also increase the workload for health information management and IT in terms of managing system integrity—not to mention the drain on financial resources. These were some of the factors that led Exempla Healthcare to evaluate its need for an enterprise master patient index solution. HealthLeaders Media contributors Lots Pook and Barbara Manor share the blueprint Exempla Healthcare used to evaluate EMPI solutions, including the system specifications and ROI metrics it evaluated to justify the cost of an enterprise solution. [Read More] |
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