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A new digital technology has been developed by researchers at Wake Forest School of Medicine to allow unaffiliated institutions to transfer medical images, thus avoiding the hassle of CDs. Could the PCARE system offer a model for others to follow?
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Diagnostic Imaging/trends , Meaningful Use/standards , Radiology Information Systems/organization & administration , American Recovery and Reinvestment Act , Diagnostic Imaging/economics , Financing, Government , Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act , Humans , Information Dissemination/legislation & jurisprudence , Information Dissemination/methods , Meaningful Use/trends , Radiology Information Systems/economics , Radiology Information Systems/trends , United StatesSubject(s)
Chronic Disease/epidemiology , Patient Credit and Collection/organization & administration , Primary Health Care/organization & administration , Chronic Disease/economics , Chronic Disease/therapy , Comorbidity , Cost Sharing/methods , Cost Sharing/trends , Costs and Cost Analysis , Humans , Interinstitutional Relations , Organizational Case Studies , Patient Credit and Collection/trends , Primary Health Care/economics , Primary Health Care/trends , United StatesABSTRACT
Pilots under the Query Health project are testing two standards: the HQMF standard that expresses an e-measure in machine-readable electronic format; and a query envelope for the secure exchange of queries.
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Information Systems , Public Health , Quality of Health Care , Humans , Pilot Projects , United StatesSubject(s)
Commerce , Internationality , Medical Record Linkage , Private Sector , Public Sector , New Zealand , Organizational Case Studies , SoftwareABSTRACT
Here's a look at several HRSA Office for Advancement of Telehealth grantee organizations and their recommendations for what CIOs, CTOs, and CMIOs need to do to achieve integration and interoperability in telehealth.
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Electronic Health Records , Physician-Patient Relations , Remote Consultation , Systems Integration , Telemedicine , United StatesABSTRACT
To overcome an aging provider population, the Adirondack Region Medical Home Pilot in upstate New York gathered payers and providers to enhance care coordination and manage chronic diseases, all the while dealing with challenges of interoperability and physician documentation.
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Patient-Centered Care/organization & administration , Systems Integration , New York , Organizational Case Studies , Pilot Projects , United StatesABSTRACT
Predictive analytics are driving many healthcare organizations' hiring decisions in today's competitive market. It's important for organizations to capture the right data to help optimize their recruitment strategies and eliminate the time and money holes spent on untargeted recruitment campaigns.
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Personnel Selection/methods , Personnel, Hospital , Statistics as Topic , United StatesABSTRACT
The senior clinical informatics role in patient care organizations for those with a nursing background--variously given the title "CNIO," "vice president of clinical informatics," and other labels--is increasingly becoming a nexus position in hospital-based organizations nationwide. Yet this position is only beginning to be standardized in terms of title, pay, responsibilities, and reporting relationships.
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Continuity of Patient Care/organization & administration , Nurse Administrators/trends , Nursing Informatics/organization & administration , Point-of-Care Systems/organization & administration , American Recovery and Reinvestment Act , Continuity of Patient Care/legislation & jurisprudence , Documentation/standards , Humans , Leadership , Mandatory Reporting , Maryland , Nurse Administrators/organization & administration , Point-of-Care Systems/standards , United States , WorkforceABSTRACT
At a recent gathering healthcare industry leaders and public officials discuss the best governance models that will be necessary to ensure the long-term viability of health information exchanges.
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Administrative Personnel , Medical Informatics , Medical Record Linkage , Trust , Medical Records Systems, Computerized , State Government , United StatesABSTRACT
As healthcare moves toward a future in which providers will handle more population level risk, the chief integration officer will play a central role in helping hospitals integrate and align with physicians to build a broad-based care management platform.
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Continuity of Patient Care , Health Personnel , Hospital Administrators , Professional Role , Systems Integration , Humans , United StatesABSTRACT
When the University of Missouri Health System sought to optimize its bedside documentation work-flows, it chose to enhance its current medication administration devices to allow mobile point-of-care documentation, an innovation that has led to a dramatic advance in speed to documentation of patient data, ultimately improving patient care.
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Diffusion of Innovation , Electronic Data Processing , Hospitals, University , Patient Safety , Point-of-Care Systems , Quality Assurance, Health Care , Missouri , Organizational Case StudiesSubject(s)
Insurance, Health/legislation & jurisprudence , Medical Informatics/organization & administration , Humans , Information Dissemination/legislation & jurisprudence , Information Dissemination/methods , Insurance, Health/organization & administration , Insurance, Health/trends , Medical Informatics/trends , Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act , United StatesABSTRACT
Getting effective stakeholder engagement, including that of payers, and creating innovative value-added services that provide alternate revenue streams beyond basic subscription services, are just a couple of the common traits of the flourishing health information exchanges profiled in the sustainability report released in August by the National eHealth Collaborative.
