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An Electronic Health Record doesn’t accomplish much if providers are reluctant to use it. That’s why there are many new companies helping to spur EHR adoption by providing easy-to-use alternatives to keyboard data entry.
Postponing ICD-10, whenever the new compliance date might end up being, would do little to improve readiness – but could have significant adverse effects and substantial costs, said a majority of respondents to a survey from Edifecs, which develops technologies for regulatory compliance and data exchange.
Researchers at Stanford University have designed an interactive case-based online activity to help clinicians prevent and treat sepsis, a life-threatening infection that takes more than 200,000 lives each year.
Several organizations are joining together to make available services for safety net providers across the country. The intent is to help them manage the increasing demands for quality cost and outcome.
Healthcare access, cost, quality and outcomes varies widely from one community to the next, both within states and across states, depending on the performance of the healthcare system available to residents, according to a new report from the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System.
For the last 14 years, I have been working in our hospitals. I have always been in the IS Department, but at least I worked in a revenue center. I didn’t work in one of those places that are considered “corporate overhead.” Well, now I’m about six months into a new role that is distinctly corporate overhead.
When one is a writer for a trade publication, one's e-mail inbox is peppered almost daily with press releases touting this or that study, significant for these or those findings, about this or that corner of the industry.
Healthcare is one of the top issues in the 2012 presidential election, and all the candidates are promising big things. For Republican candidates, their platforms all rest soundly on repealing the Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA).
Who would have thought eight years ago that patient engagement would become one of the catch phrases for healthcare transformation. Yet, there it is, carefully laid out in the government’s proposed rule for meaningful use of electronic health records.
New advances in medication management technology, including electronic medication administration records (eMARs) are helping long-term care facilities avoid medication errors and streamline care.