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The “perils of paper” are likely consequences of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s final interim rule for e-prescribing controlled substances, according to one national health IT professional.
Most patients who write a blog don’t ever think their doctors will read it, just as doctors don’t ever expect that their patients will read their notes. But what if this changed? Experts think there may be some “unintended consequences.”
The Kansas Health Policy Authority (KHPA) has extended a $119 million two-year technology services contract with HP Enterprise Services. The extension, which includes two one-year options, will allow the state to meet its budget without eliminating staff or reducing customer service.
Many doctors are deeply skeptical about the future of medicine, according to a recent survey conducted by athenahealth, the provider of Web-based practice management tools, and Sermo, the largest online community for physicians.
Healthcare IT leaders are hailing President Obama's nomination of Donald Berwick, MD, to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as a signal of the administration's commitment to quality.
The Hawaii Medical Service Association (HMSA), the Blue Cross Blue Shield plan of the Aloha State, will become the first health plan to deploy American Well's new Online Care Team Edition. The new service will bring live, on-demand specialist care consultations into primary care docs' exam rooms – reducing the delay, inconvenience and cost associated with the traditional patient referral process.
The TriZetto Group and 3M Health Information Systems announced an agreement last month that gives TriZetto certain exclusivity to include 3M's ICD-10 Code Translation Tool with several new services for payers under its TriZetto Advantage 10 Services.
Revenues from remote patient monitoring using mobile networks will rise to almost $1.9 billion globally by 2014, according to Juniper Research.
Voice/speech recognition systems evolving to meet EMR, documentation and coding challenges.
With some regional extension centers (RECs) poised to open this month, small physician practices will soon have access to the help they need to qualify for meaningful use bonuses under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.