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Health-focused social media sites, combined with the use of personal health records, can be a reliable source to monitor chronic disease, according to a study that tracked patients with diabetes. Participants were given the option of submitting personal data that were then displayed on county- or state-level maps. Healthcare IT News, Modern Physician.
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Ever since the draft ACO regulations were released by CMS a few weeks ago, I’ve been getting lots of questions about how technical teams and CIOs should be engaged with the business side to figure out their implementation strategies (I love these questions, by the way, so keep them coming). To help clarify some important [...]
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It’s that time again for a quick roundup of some interesting tweets happening out their in the wonderful twittersphere. #bbpBox_64113991093456896 a { text-decoration:none; color:#0084B4; }#bbpBox_64113991093456896 a:hover { text-decoration:underline; } (awkward moments on Twitter) RT @techguy: Is that a change? ;-) RT @Doctor_V I’m gonna turn 33 charts into a link-baiting content farm April 29, 2011 [...]Related posts:Weekend Healthcare IT and EMR Twitter Roundup You know on the weekends I love to through in...A Healthcare IT Twitter Roundup It’s the weekend and I have this cool new Twitter...A Quick Twitter Thought About PHR I was looking through the HIMSS session titles and saw...
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The broad reach of telemedicine was put on full display during Sunday's 2011 International Telemedicine Forum.The two-hour session, one of several held in advance of Sunday evening's official opening of the ATA 2011 conference, highlighted telemedicine projects in four nations – Australia, Brazil, India and China – and introduced five more to the ATA's international fold. It also gave ATA officials a chance to point out the value of those projects to America's changing healthcare landscape.read more
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At the ATA 2011 opening plenary Sunday afternoon, American Telemedicine Association President Dale Alverson, MD, gave a powerful opening speech that emphasized how a "perfect storm" of factors has set the stage for fundamental transformation of care healthcare delivery. "This is a time for telemedicine," he said.Healthcare reform may be controversial, he said, but one aspect of it is not: with costs spiraling ever upward, "we must look at new ways of providing care."read more
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Janet Marchibroda, the founding CEO of the eHealth Initiative, has been named chair of the Health Project initiative at the Bipartisan Policy Center. Meanwhile, Cerner has won a contract to serve as the technical service provider for Missouri's health information exchange.
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The National Association of State Chief Information Officers has released a guide to assist states' participation in the National Information Exchange Model, which is being considered as a framework to share health data among agencies. Government Computer News.
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BayScribe announced availability of BayScribe Mobile 2.3 for iPhone (version 4) today with a couple of key enhancements to improve the Clinical Documentation workflow, security and ultimately, EHR/EMR adoption. Healthcare facilities are continuously working to attract and retain physicians and providing functional mobile applications on the physicians preferred device is a means of doing so. [...]
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