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As the government’s work on healthcare reform gathers steam on Capitol Hill, America’s Health Insurance Plans is shining the spotlight on private-sector strategies it says are critical for change – among them the adoption of electronic health records.
The AmeriHealth Mercy Family of Companies, a Philadelphia-based organization of Medicaid managed care plans, has implemented a new service in two of its health plans that will help physicians identify gaps in their patients’ care.
The members of America’s Health Insurance Plans assemble June 3-5 for their annual meeting – Institute 2009 – with health reform center stage.
Echo Vision, Inc., can do a patient’s heart good by providing cardio and vascular diagnostic services across Oregon and the southern part of Washington state.
Research has shown that concerns about the quality and quantity of health information on the Internet are common among physicians and patients, and as the Internet plays more of a role in disseminating health information – especially in cases like the H1NI virus – experts say this information should be closely examined for accuracy.
Pay-for-performance programs garner greater participation when the rewards are higher, According to Bridges to Excellence, a national P4P initiative.
During the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics’ two-day conference on meaningful use of healthcare information technology systems, Carolyn Clancy MD, director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, said physician practices and health systems eyeing bonuses under the stimulus package should begin now by setting up health registries with their health IT vendor.
Clinical research that used to take months now takes minutes at Montefiore Medical Center in New York, thanks to new software that accesses data in electronic medical records.
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, which has a membership of 1,300 CIOs across the country, weighed in last week on its definition of “meaningful use” for healthcare information technology.
Children’s Medical Center in Dallas became the first hospital to Twitter in real-time from a transplant surgery.