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How Gulf coast storms spurred EHR adoption
By Joseph Conn | May 08, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Louisiana is almost entirely rural with just 27% of its people living outside major metropolitan areas. But no state faced greater challenges in bringing electronic health records to its rural areas in the past decade.
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Rural EHR system promotes population health
By Joseph Conn | May 07, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
It sometimes takes a phone call to make meaningful use of electronic health records in rural areas. In the central West Virginia village of Clay, with a population of about 490, Dr. Sarah Chouinard heads Community Care of West Virginia, also a Community Health Network member.
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Rural provider shows size no barrier to EHRs
By Joseph Conn | May 06, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Some small, rural healthcare organizations have become health information technology front-runners and their leaders techno mavens, despite the digital divide that separates the larger, urban health IT have-nows from the smaller, rural IT have-not-yets.
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Under construction | Vermont's challenges typical of states rushing to build insurance exchanges
By Jonathan Block | April 27, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Vermont may have a reputation as a small, laid-back state best known for maple syrup and Ben & Jerry's ice cream, but the task facing Lindsey Tucker is almost as large as the state's Green Mountains. The deputy commissioner of the state's health insurance exchange, Vermont Health Connect, faces the...
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Doctor-approved | As health apps flourish, hospitals are beginning to sanction some for patients
By Jaimy Lee | March 23, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Some hospitals are beginning to develop formulary-like lists of smartphone and tablet applications acceptable for use in clinical settings as more patients and physicians incorporate medical apps into their care regimens.
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Mobile apps fuel global research | Heart study aims to enroll 1 million smartphone users worldwide
By Jaimy Lee | March 23, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
In what could turn out to be one of the largest ever population health investigations, researchers at the University of California at San Francisco plan to enroll 1 million people with smartphones in a worldwide cardiovascular study aimed at improving heart health.
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Video Feature: Tech leaders make predictions on the transition to ICD-10 (7:20)
By Modern Healthcare | March 23, 2013
With the Oct. 1, 2014 deadline for the transition to ICD-10 diagnosis and procedures codes apparently set in stone, technology experts like Stephen Lieber, president and CEO of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, forecast how the change will unfold.
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Status check | Experts weigh in on ICD-10 conversion
By Joseph Conn | March 23, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
In little more than 18 months, the U.S. healthcare industry is expected to join most of the industrialized world in the adoption of the International Classification of Diseases 10th Revision code system, which promises to be the biggest single-day switch in healthcare information technology since...
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The next big app | Health IT gurus see future in patients, tracking
By Joseph Conn | March 15, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Mobile healthcare apps are multiplying fast and putting a vast array of new tools in the hands of patients and the providers who deliver their care. The pace and scope of innovation makes it hard to imagine what app developers will create next. So we put the question to some of the thinkers in the...
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Solid safeguards | Providers struggle with new HIPAA security rules
By Judy Greenwald | March 15, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Smaller healthcare providers, as well as many of the firms that work with all healthcare providers, are struggling to comply with federal data security rules that take effect soon. But even larger healthcare providers would do well to examine their contracts with the firms with which they deal, to...
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