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• Electronic Claims Submission in the US Is Lagging Too – 90% of Reimbursements Still Paper Checks

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 514
  These are some pretty high numbers here at 90% of all medical claims still being cut on paper, not quite as bad as EHR adoption, but still with the technology do go electronic and the time it saves, well, we are back to the old word here called “change”.   If you have ever done any medical billing, and I ...
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• Survey on Surgeons Making Errors – Are Locum Tenens, Medical Migrants A Contributing Factor?

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 514
  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 ...
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• MyPHR – Website that Explains and Answers Questions and Why You Need One Today and Tomorrow

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 514
  I get into conversations quite frequently about this and it is amazing that I still walk into doctors offices, hospitals and chat with individuals and they have never heard of a PHR, personal health record.  One time I was trying to explain what it was to staff members and the physician thought I was having ...
  9 hours ago

• Health IT pros warn of network vulnerabilities during cyberwar

  
  News — Authority: 127
  Fans of doomsday scenarios, gather round. It may not be hackers that present the greatest threat to EHR databases, but terrorist groups or rogue regimes, a hospital IT director told federal officials last week. Testifying Friday before the federal Health IT Standards Committee, Chad Skidmore, director of network ...
  12 hours ago

• Dillon & Paten Locke – Studies In Hunger / promo

  
  GRANDGOOD — Authority: 574
  Mmmm food. Episode 3 of DillonAteThat.com TV -this one is conveniently enough a promo for my soon to be released album with Paten Locke, “Studies in Hunger” Available 12/8/09 on Domination Recordings. Buen Provecho! Bonus: “ Studies in Hunger Megamix ” Super Bonus: Part 4 of Dillon’s excursion to ...
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• Kaiser Permanente and Exempla Healthcare in Boulder EHRs Connected

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 514
  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 ...
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• On eBay, the Fax and Healthcare Interop

  
  Wes Rishel — Authority: 113
  This is a reply to Shane Taylor’s interesting comment on my Simple Healthcare Interop for Easy Applications post. I am using his comment as an opportunity to flog some important notions. Notion 1: You Can’t Step on Someone’s Toes with a Thoughtful Blog Comment Shane expressed a concern that his ...
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• VA Looking for Security Solutions with Medical Devices With Vista and Bandwidth

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 514
  Security is on everyone’s mind today and the VA is busy working on their solutions.  They have used some virtualization methods and as the article mentions the system is operating near capacity with Vista.  Some devices are causing interruptions with malware and security patches, so it sound like have have some ...
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• Simple Healthcare Interop for Easy Applications

  
  Wes Rishel — Authority: 113
  After reading Health 2.0: Take a Lesson From the Web Peter Basch asked me “exactly what a Provider Health Internet looks like – [and what are] the implications of using it vs. a RHIO / NHIN?” The question has special piquancy because users of EHRs will need to show certain kinds of interoperability to meet ...
  2 days ago

• How to choose the right electronic health record (EHR) consultant

  
  KevinMD.com — Authority: 586
  "> "> Originally published in HCPLive.com by Jonathan Bertman, MD You may have seen advertisements, or may already have been contacted by people who’ve promised to help you figure it all out so you can get your share of the stimulus money. Be wary. The truth is that the Obama administration is still ...
  4 days ago

• Medicare Extends Personal Health Record Pilot Program – Magpie Healthcare Thrives, Where’s the Training and Education?

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 514
  I talk about this quite a bit here, especially since I am actively involved and have helped my own 85 year old mother with putting her records into a PHR.  I also was skeptical about the success when initially announced, again going back to lack of education and training.  PHRs are not just something you put out ...
  4 days ago

• Computer Systems with Cognitive Powers: A Close Reality

  
  EMR Blog — Authority: 131
  John: “Hey Bill, I got this new computer, and it has 4 GB RAM and HD!”Bill: “Well John, I can top that. I just got one with an IQ of 130!”Instead of talking about a computer’s gigabytes, we might soon move to discussions about a computing system’s IQ. IBM researchers are making strides in developing [...]
  4 days ago

• House Passes Two Small Business Bills

  
  Tech Daily Dose — Authority: 606
  Advertisement The House passed two small business bills by voice vote Wednesday that may spur technological innovation. The first, H.R. 3738 , would create a new early-stage investment program and authorize equity investment financing for small businesses. The bill calls for participating financiers to ...
  5 days ago

• Personal Tech: Medical Apps for the iPhone

  
  Future of Health IT: Trends and Scenarios — Authority: 124
  From NY Times Personal Tech: Medical Apps for the iPhone After a lot of time reading "best medical apps" stories online, asking Twitter users for their suggestions and reading online reviews, I finally boiled the list down to about 50 promising apps. I tried them out and further winnowed the list to a bunch that I ...
  5 days ago

• Patients at El Camino Hospital Check in with Biometric Authentication – Patient Security

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 514
  This is pretty neat and not too long ago I wrote about the opening of the hospital.  The PalmSecure software/hardware will work with Citrix and scans your hand.  Once you have been registered, one scan of the hand is all that is needed.  Watch the video as well to see what other neat things are going on, ...
  5 days ago

• Health 2.0: Take a Lesson From the Web

  
  Wes Rishel — Authority: 113
  Believe it or not, this is about the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) and maybe the Health Internet, whatever that turns out to be. But I’ll get back to that. As discussed in Healthcare 2.0: Better Tweetment? I am on a mission to find concrete value propositions for Health 2.0. By this I mean not the ...
  5 days ago

• Health Information Technology Beyond U.S. Borders

  
  EMR Blog — Authority: 131
  The impact of ARRA and the HITECH Act has created a flurry of activity around EHR adoption in the U.S. However, the benefits of EHR technology could extend well beyond this country’s borders, having a significant global impact.Global health is an issue worth considering. Does anyone remember that little thing called ...
  6 days ago

• IBM researchers speed up medical diagnostic testing via chip

  
  Between the Lines — Authority: 693
  IBM researchers have cooked up a quick medical diagnostic testing system based on a silicon chip that can get by on small sample and test for multiple diseases.
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• Medicare Paid More than 47 Billion in Questionable Claims

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 514
  This article addresses several potential areas of potential fraud and again it pretty much all comes back around to the inability to track and enforce.  It seems that this same issue keeps arising all throughout government. Medicare Scam Warnings Were Ignored for Years – Perhaps Due To a Lack of Business ...
  1 week ago

• An interesting exchange on politics and IT | Paul Murphy | ZDNet.com

  
  disabilityresourcelinks.com — Authority: 145
    An interesting exchange on politics and IT | Paul Murphy | ZDNet.com
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