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Monday, Jan 28, 2013
Washington state program could be model for the nation.
Tracking Medicaid beneficiaries who frequently use emergency departments and adopting electronic tracking systems to exchange... Read More
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Thursday, Jan 3, 2013
Fraud isn't at the root of a spike in providers' billing for emergency services, a new opinion piece in the New England Journal of Medicine asserts.
Rather, the piece's author writes,... Read More
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Wednesday, Jan 2, 2013
Concern for "stigma" of psychiatric illness keeps information from primary care doctors
Medical centers that elect to keep psychiatric files private and separate from the rest of a... Read More
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Monday, Dec 24, 2012
When the medical practice of Howard Axe, MD, found itself in need of a new electronic prescribing system two years ago, implementing a full electronic health record system with an e-prescribing... Read More
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Wednesday, Dec 19, 2012
To borrow the words of Lou Goodman, president of the nonprofit Physicians Foundation , "2013 will be a watershed year for the U.S. healthcare system." For physician practices, the upcoming New... Read More
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Wednesday, Dec 12, 2012
Algorithms applied to electronic health record data can identify more cases of undetected diabetes in patients than claims codes, and discriminates between type 1 and type 2 diabetes, according to... Read More
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Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has launched a wide-ranging review of government incentive payments to physicians and hospitals for the... Read More
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Monday, Oct 22, 2012
SAN DIEGO – Use of electronic medical records technology reduced medication errors among hospitalized HIV patients from 16% to 1.1%, a 93% reduction ( P =0.002), researchers said here.
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Monday, Oct 8, 2012
A recent MarketsandMarkets report forecasts cloud computing in healthcare to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 20.5 percent from 2012 to 2017. Although cloud computing offers... Read More
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Wednesday, Oct 3, 2012
Providing patients with access to their physician's notes benefits those patients and does not add to a doctor's workload, according to a new study published this week in the ... Read More
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