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Flow management boosts patient care

Jamie Thompson is the Web Producer for Healthcare IT News, Healthcare Finance News, Government Health IT and Healthcare Payer News. Jamie oversees daily e-newsletter production and homepage content layout, and facilitates relationships with our contributing bloggers. City Health Care Partnership CIC (CHCP CIC) has implemented a patient flow management solution by Cayder to enable healthcare providers to manage patient care more effectively. Providers at CHCP CIC will be able to [...]

 

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Canadian clinic makes personal health data available to patients

Jamie Thompson is the Web Producer for Healthcare IT News, Healthcare Finance News, Government Health IT and Healthcare Payer News. Jamie oversees daily e-newsletter production and homepage content layout, and facilitates relationships with our contributing bloggers. The Amari Medical Clinic and Integrated Health Centre in Surrey, B.C. has tapped Cloud Practice Inc., to make test results, appointments, and healthcare states available to patients. Patients will be able to integrate their [...]

 

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9 'Cs,' part 2: The 'back-end'

Jeff Rowe is a contributing writer for Healthcare IT News. He previously served as Editor of EHRWatch, a tech blog focused on all aspects of electronic health records. Much of healthcare reform involves changing the relationship between providers and patients. But for providers, efforts to deliver more accountable care necessarily involves changing the way they manage their practices and keep abreast of near-constant developments across healthcare.Lumeris, an operations, technology and [...]

 

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Harkin holds Tavenner nomination hostage over wellness funding

Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) has put a halt to what appeared to be smooth sailing for Marilyn Tavenner to officially take the helm of the Medicare program. At a budget hearing Wednesday, Harkin said he wants answers on why funding for wellness is to be cut from the federal budget. Harkin told the Associated Press earlier this week that he temporarily put a hold on the full Senate vote to [...]

 

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Industry executives: In today's healthcare landscape, the patient comes first

That’s especially true of the nation’s doctors, who’ve been at the center of the healthcare landscape and are now dealing with a healthcare system that’s putting the patient first. In this reform-minded era, they’re turning to telemedicine and mobile health to make those connections and carve out a better and more efficient business. A panel of telemedicine industry executives took on that question Monday afternoon at the American Telemedicine Association’s18th [...]

 

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The year ahead for the ATA, telemedicine

Telemedicine as we know it has been around for almost 50 years. It has moved from humble beginnings as an experimental curiosity delivering rural healthcare to become something on track for mainstream acceptance across the healthcare system.  This growth curve has accelerated dramatically in the past few years with the introduction of new technologies, new applications and particularly with the birth of the wireless world and a newfound familiarity and [...]

 

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CORHIO signs on more than 100 docs

South Metro Primary Care, one of the largest primary care independent practice associations in the Denver area, will connect the electronic health records of its 118 primary care providers to the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization HIE. South Metro Primary Care is one of the 32 Pioneer Accountable Care Organizations in the U.S. It serves some 24,000 Medicare beneficiaries in greater Denver. Connecting to the HIE will allow more than [...]

 

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Drug and therapeutic knowledge base on tap for Canadian providers

Jamie Thompson is the Web Producer for Healthcare IT News, Healthcare Finance News, Government Health IT and Healthcare Payer News. Jamie oversees daily e-newsletter production and homepage content layout, and facilitates relationships with our contributing bloggers. The Canadian Pharmacists Association and PEPID Canada have partnered to offer a bilingual drug and therapeutic knowledge base for healthcare information systems. CPhA, a nonprofit advocating for Canadian pharmacists, provides a wide range of [...]

 

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5 heavy hitters take lead on UDI

The Healthcare Transformation Group – made up of members Geisinger, Intermountain Healthcare, Kaiser Permanente, Mayo Clinic and Mercy – has created a research and development team, to put implementation of a Unique Device Identification System on the fast track. The team is composed of physicians and clinical researchers from the five healthcare systems that make up the Healthcare Transformation Group, or HTG. HTG was formed in 2010 as an action-oriented [...]

 

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Breakfast panel takes a look at connected care - and 'Super Docs'

How are the nation’s top integrated healthcare networks using telemedicine? According to the panel assembled for Monday morning’s Healthcare IT News Breakfast Briefing, they’re all building a better physician. “I’ve just taken a primary care doctor and turned him into a Super Doc,” offered Jeffrey Benabio, MD, a dermatologist and director of healthcare transformation for Kaiser Permanente in San Diego. “And I can do that with any primary care physician.” [...]

 

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EHR part of MaineHealth's financial woes

In a memo to its employees last week, Maine Medical Center, part of the MaineHealth system, said it has suffered an operating loss of $13.4 million in the first half of its fiscal year. The rollout of MaineHealth’s estimated $160 million electronic health record system, which has resulted in charge capture issues that are being fixed, was among several reasons Maine Med’s CEO cited for the shortfall. “Through March (six [...]

 

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UK hospital goes paperless

East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust will use Harris Healthcare’s Clinical Integration Platform to create a paperless and mobile clinical environment. The trust has signed a pilot agreement for 500 licenses, and plans to use the clinical portal to gather patient information from different clinical systems that currently work in isolation. These systems include patient administration, pathology, document management, vital signs monitoring and PACS. “We have chosen to pilot [...]

 

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Big data to assess CMS quality measures

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is partnering with Cambridge, Mass.-based analytics firm GNS Healthcare and Health Services Advisory Group to assess CMS quality measures. GNS officials say the firm will deploy its REFS, or Reverse Engineering and Forward Simulation, dig data analytics and machine learning platform to help determine the impact that quality measures have on the quality of care delivered to patients. CMS quality measures are collected and [...]

 

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Innovation in telemedicine technology: An entrepreneur's perspective

The need to provide high-quality healthcare to everyone while reducing costs has reached a crisis level, where it’s a major focus of the highest government offices. More and more politicians and healthcare leaders are realizing that telemedicine is clearly a cornerstone of the solution. This is tangibly seen by the increasing number of healthcare systems that are adopting telemedicine, by the growth of ATA and by industry investments in telemedicine [...]

 

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ATA keynote: 'Not a technology problem'

Jeffrey O. Henley, chairman of the Oracle Corporation, offered a technologist’s perspective on the opportunities of reshaping healthcare in his Monday morning keynote at the American Telemedicine Association’s 18th Annual International Meeting & Trade Show. The mission, should we choose to accept it: “We’ve got to figure out how to do more for less.” Actually, with healthcare spending exceeding 17 percent of the United States’ GDP, it’s a mission we [...]