Tag: Patient Engagement
New Study Looks At Online Usage for Healthcare Activities
DOC Report Finds Researching Health Plans, Practitioners and Medical Conditions Online Common The Department of Commerce has released a new report looking at how we use the Internet. The report, Exploring the Digital Nation: America’s Emerging Online Experience, is a follow-up to the DOC’s 2011 report on home Internet usage. For the report researchers at the [...]
Digital Health Summer Summit Wraps Up
Digital Health Funding, Big Data, and Reimbursement Hot Topics The worlds of health, technology and business converged at the 2nd annual Digital Health Summer Summit produced by Living in Digital Times. Approximately 175 industry leaders, representing life sciences, venture funds and incubators, mobile app developers, wearable tech, payers and physicians came together to exchange new [...]
The Brave New World of Healthcare IT: Part III
Interoperability is the Key, Profitability and Patient Engagement the Result, Part III Kathy McCoy, MBA Follow her on Twitter @kathymccoy In our last post Part II, we looked at how a technology-optimized medical office would flow from the practice’s perspective. Some people fear that the greater use of technology will reduce the practice of medicine [...]
The Brave New World of Healthcare IT: Part II
Interoperability is the Key, Profitability and Patient Engagement the Result, Part II Kathy McCoy, MBA Follow her on Twitter @kathymccoy In my last post, we Part I, discussed how a patient portal can be used to streamline the medical office, as outlined by Rochelle Glassman, founding partner of Phoenix Physician Services and now United Physician Services, [...]
The Brave New World of Healthcare IT
Interoperability is the Key, Profitability and Patient Engagement the Result, Part I Kathy McCoy, MBA Follow her on Twitter @kathymccoy While most practices are struggling just to implement EHRs effectively right now, I took a trip into the brave new world of HIT recently with Rochelle Glassman, founding partner of Phoenix Physician Services and now [...]
Can patient engagement be achieved from a clinician messaging system?
Robert Rowley, MD Twitter: @RRowleyMD For clinicians participating in the federal EHR Incentive Program (Meaningful Use), Stage 2 of Meaningful Use (MU2) is right around the corner (2014). No one yet has EHR software that is certified for MU2, given that vendors are just becoming certified this year. So, from a clinician perspective, it is hard to [...]
WEDI Seeks Participants for New 2013 Workgroups
Selects Co-Chairs New 2013 WEDI Report Workgroups The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) is a non-profit organization established in 1991 by Health and Human Services (HHS). WEDI’s mission is to improve the use of health information technology and reduce healthcare system costs. In 1993, WEDI released an original report that provided the healthcare industry [...]
2013 WEDI Report to Tackle Health Information Exchange
WEDI Committee and Workgroups to Create Framework for HIE The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) is a non-profit organization established in 1991 by Health and Human Services (HHS). WEDI’s mission is to improve the use of health information technology and reduce healthcare system costs. In 1993, WEDI released an original report that provided the [...]
AHRQ Study to Look at Health IT Impact on Ambulatory Workflow
Patient-Reported Health IT Technology and Ambulatory Workflow The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is conducing a study to look at the impact on ambulatory workflow from collecting patient information using health IT technology. The study, Patient-Reported Health Information Technology and Workflow, has been submitted to the Federal Register and is open to public comment. [...]
Health Datapalooza IV
Open Data, Innovation, and Health Datapalooza One of the Department of Health & Human Services’ (HHS) current initiatives is the Health Data Initiative (HDI). It was launched in 2010 with the Institute of Medicine (IOM). The involved and interested formed the Community Health Data Initiative that is now the Health Data consortium. The Consortium includes [...]
Providers working towards HIE and interoperability face the challenge of bringing connectivity to scale to take advantage of the data being generated by EHR adoption. This paper seeks to demonstrate that connectivity at scale can be accomplished. 
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