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Moving toward a true open source approach with Connect, the Federal Health Architecture plans to hold an industry day to understand existing options. FHA director Lauren Thompson says the group is also working on a governance structure for its federal partners.
Data collected from sneaker chips will help elementary school kids get fit and stay fit. It’s the most recent project from Partners HealthCare’s Center for Connected Health. Called Step It Up, the program is going into six Boston public schools.
When Acting CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner said Feb. 14 that CMS would take another look at the timeline for converting from the ICD-9 billing code set to ICD-10, she unleashed a barrage of response – for and against – across the healthcare industry. The next day Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said HHS, indeed, intended to push back the deadline.
It's often said that the emergency department is the "front door" of the hospital. And recent years have seen more people than ever making their way through that entry.
A new study by the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions indicates physicians are not using IT broadly to engage patients. No more than 20 percent of doctors are providing online scheduling or test results for their patients and just 6 percent are using social media to communicate with them, the study reveals.
A remote monitoring program implemented by Geisinger Health Plan using interactive voice response (IVR) and other telemonitoring technology to aid case managers has shown a 44 percent reduction in hospital readmissions.
On February 24, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) published its proposed rule for the certification of electronic health records.
The proposed Stage 2 meaningful use rule – a 455-page document – raises the bar on many Stage 1 requirements and introduces several new ones.
After some stops and starts, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has at last released the proposed rules for Stage 2 of qualifying for the meaningful use of electronic health records incentives.
Earlier this year, a Washington think tank whose healthcare wing is led by two former Senate Majority Leaders, put its weight behind more widespread use of IT in healthcare organizations nationwide.