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Most healthcare organizations have covered a lot of IT ground in the past four-plus years. Industrywide, we've implemented and upgraded electronic health records, made strides toward achieving meaningful use, developed plans for ICD-10, and looked to link with patients and health information...
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In today's society, technology has become deeply woven into the fabric of our daily lives. At home, at work and while traveling, we rely on our smartphones, tablets and computers for news, information, conversation and entertainment. But information technology is not yet close to reaching its...
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Last week, the IOM declared a crisis in the system for delivering care to the more than 1.6 million who contract cancer and the 500,000 people who die each year from the disease.
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Intermountain Healthcare recently launched the nation's first enterprise system to measure and report cumulative medical radiation exposure of patients. Across our 22 hospitals and 185 clinics, our systems and personnel are now compiling data on the...
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What will make accountable care organizations successful? And will they be able to succeed at all?
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Getting patients more involved in taking responsibility for their health is the current quandary for providers. In most healthcare reform scenarios, patient engagement is seen as the key to success. How to achieve it seems mysterious, and most believe that the “unknown” can be solved by...
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I just lost a former mentor who had a profound impact on how I envision and implement healthcare information technology. Achilles Demetriou did that by teaching me to think like a CEO.
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Patient engagement is one of the hottest topics today in healthcare reform, as more attention is paid to improving results from care delivery.How exactly to bring about this engagement remains a matter of debate, as providers and patients see the root of the problem differently.
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Regarding “HHS signs off on IT patient-safety plan”: Perhaps the government should have figured out how to standardize reporting of IT and EHR safety issues before requiring and incentivizing us to use them.
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Moore (Okla.) Medical Center, a satellite site of Norman (Okla.) Regional Health System, took a direct hit from the terrible tornado that killed 24 people and injured 377 others May 20. It will most likely never open its doors again. However, as Modern Healthcare reported, the medical center had...
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