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• Why it’s risky to pay for a proprietary health IT system

  
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  “No aspect of health IT entails as much uncertainty as the magnitude of its potential benefits.” A few years into the Meaningful Use program, it seems this quote from a 2008 Congressional Budget Office report entitled “ Evidence on the Costs and Benefits of Health Information Technology “ may have been ...
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• Will the CommonWell Health Alliance Succeed at Solving Nationwide Data Exchange?

  
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  By Waco Hoover First Posted at Institute for Health Technology Transformation on 4/8/2013 The Health IT Policy Committee recently analyzed the CommonWell Health Alliance, a newly formed vendor-led coalition to promote interoperability. The Alliance comprised ...
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• This Week in Healthcare: May 10th, 2013

  
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  May 10th’s weekly review of healthcare articles and tweets from PayerFusion for quick glance. Topics discussed: Healthcare Costs, IT, Reform, etc. The post This Week in Healthcare: May 10th, 2013 appeared first on .
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• Shift left: Read about new business models in digital health

  
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  The traditional model of healthcare is being forced to change under pressure from increased patient access to technology and medical information, as well as a global demand to achieve better health outcomes for the money being spent. We’re seeing what is known as a “shift left”: a shift in care from the ...
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• Health IT Business News – Friday, May 10, 2013

  
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  Today’s Business News Allscripts announced first quarter 2013 results, stating bookings total $178 million; operating cash flow of $39 million. Other first quarter highlights for the company include the acquisition of dbMotion, Ltd., a platform for care coordination and population health management, and increased ...
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• NCGENES project recognized as a health IT innovation by NCHICA

  
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  Ketan Mane, left, and Phil Owen with their Health IT Innovation Awards presented by NCHICA Chapel Hill, May 9, 2013 – Tuesday, May 7, marked the first annual Health IT Innovation Awards sponsored by the North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communications Alliance (NCHICA). RENCI had a strong presence at the ...
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• NY Digital Health Accelerator Graduates First Class, Sees an Acquisition

  
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  João-Pierre S. Ruth One year after it was announced , the New York Digital Health Accelerator birthed its first clutch of startups on Wednesday at a demo day—including one acquisition deal in the mix. Pared down from some 250 applicants from across the U.S. and 10 countries, the eight startups in this class ...
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• San Diego Life Sciences Roundup: Receptos, Arena, NuVasive, & More

  
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  Bruce V. Bigelow Amid the hectic pace of earnings releases, we saw a number of partnership agreements and other developments coming out of San Diego’s life sciences community.  Here’s my wrap-up. —Shares of San Diego-based Receptos (NASDAQ: RCPT ), a biotech developing new treatments for immune ...
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• Why Health IT Security Grows More Complex

  
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  Former DoD Cyber-security Analyst Addresses HIPAA Security Challenges By Anthony Brino, Associate Editor Government Health IT HHS’s Office of Civil Rights is starting enforcement of the HIPAA Omnibus Rule on Sept. 23, 2013, and aside from regulatory compliance, the HIMSS Privacy and Security Committee is encouraging ...
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• ONC Health IT Dashboard Updated with 100,000+ New Data Points

  
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  ONC Health IT Dashboard Adds New Quick Stats Feature The ONC Health IT Dashboard is an open government project from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. The ONC maintains the Dashboard as a platform to distribute their program performance measures tracking health information technology adoption, ...
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• Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen

  
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  The Obama administration argues that the sequester is (harmfully) preventing vaccinations for the poor, even though their new budget calls for an even larger cut . More than 90 percent of medical specialists who diagnose and manage Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in preschoolers do not follow ...
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• Health IT Business News – Wednesday, May 8, 2013

  
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  Today’s Business News The market for EHRs reached 20.7 Billion in 2012, a 15% increase from the 17.9 billion in 2011, according to a new white paper released last month by Kalorama Information.  The report lists hospital IT upgrades and the lure of government incentives as driving factors for the increase. ...
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• EHR Dissatisfaction: A tech or people problem?

  
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  By Kimberly Martini Division vice president, AMN Healthcare A percolating problem is beginning to boil over: doctors and nurses really don’t like their new electronic health records systems. And, as EHR implementations increase ahead of government deadlines for incentive dollars, dissatisfaction among clinicians is ...
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• The big-data revolution in US health care: Accelerating value and innovation | McKinsey & Company

  
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  While health-care costs may be paramount in big data’s rise, clinical trends also play a role. Physicians have traditionally used their judgment when making treatment decisions, but in the last few years there has been a move toward evidence-based medicine , which involves systematically reviewing clinical data and ...
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• Why Doctors Hate Electronic Medical Records

  
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  Unsent letter to the Tech Department : So today I’m doing anesthesia for colonoscopies and upper GI scopes. Nowadays we have three board-certified anesthesiologists doing anesthesia for GI procedures every single day at my institution. I’ll probably do 8 cases today. I will sign into a computer or ...
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• The Southeast gets its first digital health accelerator

  
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  This story is part of a series exploring the themes of our upcoming health tech conference , May 20-21 in San Francisco. Read the full series here . Interested in learning more about opportunities in digital health? HealthBeat , VentureBeat’s health conference takes place on May 20 and 21. The Iron ...
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• 5 critical elements of patient-centric care

  
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  I would like now to delve into what I consider critical elements of patient-centric care. They all involve technology to various extents. 1. There must be buy-in from providers. I am including payers, healthcare systems as well as clinical providers in this category.  While I realize that much of healthcare is ...
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• Electronic Health Information Exchange Governance Framework Released

  
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  Farzad Mostashari, MD, ScM National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Twitter: @Farzad_ONC Last year, ONC issued a Request for Information (RFI) to gather public input on a potential regulatory approach that would have spelled out “conditions for trusted exchange” (safeguards, technical, and business ...
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• A "Learning Healthcare System": A good use of Big Data

  
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  An item in FierceHealthIT pointed me to an intriguing paper from the Institute of Medicine , Making the Case for Continuous Learning from Routinely Collected Data : The availability and reliability of large volumes of relevant longitudinal digital data from a variety of clinical and nonclinical sources are ...
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• National Nurses Week 2013: Health IT is Essential to Optimal Care

  
  Health IT Buzz blog — Authority: 485
  This is the second blog post in a series related to National Nurses Week and how Health IT is helping nurse provide coordinated care to their patients. I am Betsy Frederick, MSN-NP, a nurse practitioner (NP) with Martin’s Point Health Care in Bangor, Maine and I have used health information technology (health ...
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