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• The Government Will Protect Your Information

  
  Big Dogs House — Authority: 470
  Copyright © 2009 Big Dog . Visit the original article at http://www.onebigdog.net/the-government-will-protect-your-information/ . The US government is moving to impose health care reform on citizens against their will. People will be forced to buy health insurance, the first time in history a person had to ...
  14 hours ago

• Wheres the magic with electronic medical records?

  
  The Health Care Blog — Authority: 609
  By MICHAEL PAINTER Last week a new article from The American Journal of Medicine entitled, “Hospital Computing and the Costs and Quality of Care: A National Study” by Himmelstein, et al. appeared in my Twitter stream. In fact, Brian Ahier...
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• Olio: Kudos and Catcalls

  
  Yo Mama For Obama — Authority: 124
  This Thanksgiving week has brought just as much foolishness to the forefront as any other week.  Hypocrisy and self-interest as well as self-indulgence is rampant.  And the kudos offered isn’t what you would think.    As usual, I use this opportunity to provide you with reading on current issues to expand your ...
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• Hospital Fires 16 Employees For Violating Privacy Laws in Houston

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 533
  The hospital had a victim that had been on the news and according to this article there were individuals looking at the patient’s chart when they should have not normally had access. I did an interview a few months ago with Dr. Leo from Long Beach Memorial Hospital and he explained the “break the glass” ...
  2 days ago

• Notice of Privacy Practices Explained

  
  Medical Executive-Post @ Healthcare Financials.com — Authority: 133
  NPP “Game Changer” Replaced Use of ConsentsBy Richard J. Mata; MD, MSwww.HealthcareFinancials.comIn its most visible change, the privacy regulations of HIPAA require covered health entities to provide patients with a Notice of Privacy Practices (NPP). The NPP replaces the use of consents, which are now optional, ...
  2 days ago

• HHS blog intended as forum about health IT

  
  Covering Health — Authority: 476
  The first post on the new Health IT Buzz blog has generated more than 50 comments since it was posted Monday. The blog was launched by David Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.P., the national coordinator for health information technology in the Department of Health & Human Services. A press release about the blog says it ...
  2 days ago

• Hypnosis Weight Loss: Some Ways to Stop the Weighting

  
  Health Resources — Authority: 148
  Controlling your weight and avoiding weight gain as you get older are important ways to prevent a host of weight-related health problems. Indeed, if you are more than 20 pounds over your ideal weight, you are at greater risk for a rogues’ gallery of potentially deadly conditions, including diabetes, high blood ...
  3 days ago

• U.S. health IT money going to community colleges

  
  ZDNet Healthcare — Authority: 129
  Will Community Colleges align themselves with specific vendors in order to stretch their dollars, thereby giving those products market advantages? Or will the curriculum be more general, based on technical standards and legal requirements?
  3 days ago

• Docs Feel Stress When Patients Cant Make Own Decisions - in Geriatrics, General Geriatrics from MedPage Today

  
  Your Learning Guide In Surgery And Surgical Treatments — Authority: 121
  Medical News: Docs Feel Stress When Patients Cant Make Own Decisions - in Geriatrics, General Geriatrics from MedPage Today
  4 days ago

• Three Major Differences Between a Retail Call Center and a Medical Center

  
  fresh healthy body — Authority: 155
  If you are a doctor then you have a responsibility to your patients.  Why pay for just an answering service when you could employ the services of a medical call center ?  What is the difference anyway?  Let’s consider four reasons why a medical center service is ideal for your setting. 1. Representatives ...
  4 days ago

• Survey on Surgeons Making Errors – Are Locum Tenens, Medical Migrants A Contributing Factor?

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 533
  There are a lot of surgeons doing this where they travel from one hospital to another, so get your records on a PHR so you are ready for this in case it happens to you.  They of course do their best but when they travel from one location to another and have to rely on paper records that they can’t preview and ...
  5 days ago

• Electronic Medical Records Isn’t Cheaper Or Better, No Kidding.

  
  Mcnorman's Weblog — Authority: 439
  Computers Aren’t Saving Hospitals Money.The report’s lead author, Dr. David Himmelstein, associate professor at Harvard Medical School and former director of clinical computing at Cambridge Hospital in Massachusetts, says hospital computerization “hasn’t saved a dime.” Nor has it helped administrative ...
  5 days ago

• The medical home is reform without objections, so far

  
  ZDNet Healthcare — Authority: 129
  A health policy based on the medical home is going to be a lot more intrusive than the present fee-for-service model. If the medical home is to save money, and lives, that team will need power to enforce whats good for you.
  5 days ago

• Initial meaningful use standards to be simple, as deadline is in sight

  
  News — Authority: 127
  The bad news is, everyones a little antsy while waiting for final rules on "meaningful use" of EMRs. The good news is, HHS seems to be making progress toward defining the term that will determine who qualifies for federal stimulus funding for health IT. Plus, it looks like federal officials are listening to what the ...
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• Top technology trends for payers

  
  News — Authority: 127
  Health insurers will be keeping close watch on genetic testing and electronic medical records in 2010, according to the first of a planned annual series of reports from research organization ECRI Institute. Rounding out the top seven technology trends that payers should pay attention to in the new year are: Premium CT ...
  5 days ago

• Kaiser Permanente and Exempla Healthcare in Boulder EHRs Connected

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 533
  You can read how they are doing it, this goes back to the announcement in October 2008 on the blog.  BD  Exempla Healthcare Hospitals to interface with the Kaiser ambulatory EMR - Colorado “Three hospitals in the system preparing to integrate and connect with Kaiser facilities, as they will more than ...
  6 days ago

• Remote Monitoring Yields Healthier Patients – More EHR and PHR Integration In The Works And Privacy Issues Should Be Addressed

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 533
  Earlier this year the company created a blue tooth chair scale for those who have problems standing on a scale.  As mentioned in the article, many insurance companies are not reimbursing for the use of such devices that report data, but there are some, such as CareMore in California who are.  With devices that ...
  6 days ago

• Security with Health IT Pretty Sketchy at Some Hospitals and Doctor’s Offices

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 533
  This is one I have seen first hand as a vendor at hospitals, walking in and seeing stuff like Lime Wire on hospital PCs.   It makes you think why in the world would an IS manager bring a computer into the active directory access without placing the unit under group policy, yes have seen that and even just as a ...
  1 week ago

• Computerized medicine: good for quality, but not costs

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 161
  Electronic medical records and the general digitization of medical data and practices are promoted as a way to slow the rapidly inflating costs in the US healthcare system. The push for expanded medical IT has come from the top, with President Obama extolling its virtues and his administration making funding for EMR ...
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• Identity Resolution Daily Links 2009-11-20

  
  Identity Resolution Daily — Authority: 118
  [Post from Infoglide ] Entity Resolution Metrics “In the last post we looked at the problem of measuring the accuracy of entity resolution processes.  As with any accuracy measure, comparing to a known standard of correctness or benchmark is required.  However, even without a benchmark, other measures are ...
  1 week ago

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