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The Joint Commission’s 2011 National Patient Safety Goals for hospitals should be included in electronic health record certification and criteria for meaningful use, say authors of a commentary that appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
OptumInsight (formerly Ingenix) and Dallas-based RemitDATA have launched a service that offers physician practices intelligence about health plan claims processing trends, alongside coding and referential tools to increase productivity, reduce denials and prevent delays.
The two agencies are building out their mobile health portfolios, at times together and at times individually, with the aim of improving patient care.
Minnesota-based IT company helps health plans, employers connect with health clubs and manage employees' workout routines.
When it comes to disclosing identifiable patient information, family doctors are reluctant to do so – even for public health purposes such as tracking influenza, according to a recent study.
The Ontario Medical Association is calling for electronic medical records to be a top priority for all political parties as they prepare for the province's upcoming election.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued an interim final rule aimed at cutting red tape for providers. The rule won't be published in the Federal Register until Friday, but so far the Medical Group Management Association has weighed in as being "pleased" and “encouraged” by the proposal.
Websites are "the new storefront" these days, and medical practices should not be missing out on the opportunity, says one expert. However, he points out that they "are a constant evolution," and so it's important to "lay the right foundation."
A recent report from Ambient Insight, a Monroe, Wash.-based market research firm, shows that sales of self-paced e-learning products and services reached $6.8 billion in 2010 and predicted that revenues will reach $7.1 billion by 2015, especially in healthcare.
Once upon a time, the tools of medicine were pretty simple: tongue depressor, blood pressure cuff, stethoscope. Nowadays? Try exergames and first-person simulators, "wiihabilitation" and multiplayer mHealth apps.