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Two competing clinical code groups team up
By Joseph Conn | July 25, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
From a healthcare informatics perspective, it's as if Juliet married Romeo and the parents approved. Two not-for-profit standards-development organizations, producers of once-competing clinical codes, SNOMED-CT and LOINC, have reached a 10-year collaborative agreement to work together to improve...
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Work group delves into deluge of health data, offers best practices
By Joseph Conn | July 24, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Providers are receiving a much larger volume of personal health data from patients, and experts are crafting recommendations on how best to manage the flood of information.
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Implementation of technology helps treat heart patients
By Southern Illinoisan (Carbondale, Ill.) | July 24, 2013
New technology and collaborative efforts are helping Harrisburg Medical Center and the Prairie Heart Institute in treating heart patients in Southern Illinois.
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Vt.'s U.S. Rep. says vets need better health records
By Associated Press via Boston.com | July 23, 2013
U.S. Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) said Monday he is co-sponsoring a bill that would require the Veterans Affairs and Defense departments to find a better way to share health information so veterans can have better access to their military health records.
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Community health center battles for patients' records
By Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | July 22, 2013
Doctors at Milwaukee Health Services have not had access to the medical records of 40,000 patients since June 30, when an Atlanta company cut off the community health center's access to its electronic medical records after their contract ended.
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HHS auditors target upcoding of Medicare bills via EHRs
By Rich Daly | July 19, 2013
The Obama administration is conducting targeted audits of hospitals to find possible upcoding of medical services related to use of electronic health records.
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Patient-safety initiative piques vendors' interest
By Joseph Conn | July 19, 2013
So far, members of a trade group of health information technology developers like some of what they see in a federal health IT safety initiative that focuses on quantifying any adverse impacts their software is having on patients. But these vendors are withholding final judgment until more plan...
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NFL players' medical records about to go online
By USA Today | July 18, 2013
By the start of the 2014 season, NFL physicians could have a player's entire medical history at their fingertips the moment he comes to the sideline with an injury. The data would be stored on iPads, which every NFL medical staff will begin using this season as part of the league's ongoing efforts...
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CMS pushes back against call to suspend EHR incentive program
By Rich Daly | July 17, 2013
CMS officials pushed back Wednesday on Republican suggestions that a pause is needed in the electronic health-record incentive program.
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Doctors heed prescription for computerized records
By NPR | July 16, 2013
Uncle Sam wants your doctor to go digital. And the federal government is backing that up with money for practices that start using computerized systems for record keeping.
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