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The physician-consumer health IT chasm: most doctors lagging in online patient support tools

Posted to News on Fri, May 17 2013
Filed under: Meaningful Use, EHR, Return on Investment, Health IT, HITECH, E-Prescribing, HIT, Health information technology, electronic health records, mobile devices, telemedicine, interoperability, Communications, Health Populi, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Care Quality, Pharmacy and pharmaceuticals, Medical research, care coordination, mobile health, People in healthcare, Doctor-patient relationship, Health care professionals, mHealth, Technology in healthcare, wireless health, patient satisfaction, Innovation/innovative companies, Health care & health policy, Politics & public policy, lab results, Change Management, healthcare price transparency, texting for health, health care costs, Effectiveness/Efficiency, email access to doctor, patient privacy, large hospital systems, hospital billing practices

If You Want to Stop Hospital Harm, Don’t Call a Capitalist

Posted to News on Thu, May 16 2013
Filed under: Medicare, Meaningful Use, Reimbursement, Patient Safety, evidence-based medicine, Pharmacy and pharmaceuticals, Medical research, People in healthcare, Technology in healthcare, Payment, Institute of Medicine, AARP, Health care & health policy, Politics & public policy, critical care safety, medication errors, medical errors, privatize Medicare, Leapfrog Group, health care costs, Low income healthcare recipients, PRIVATE SECTOR, publishing hospital scorecards online, subsidies, value-based model, employer health care, Healthgrades, Consumer Reports, Hospital Safety Score, hospital patient safety, Leah Binder, Business Roundtable, ICU protocols, "never events", hospital comparative data, corporate culture

SearchHealthIT Tips

Posted to News on Wed, May 15 2013
Filed under: Meaningful Use, Social Media, Patient Engagement, People in healthcare, Health care professionals, patient portals, Technology in healthcare, Christina Thielst, Health care & health policy, Politics & public policy, transparency, Christina's Considerations, SearchHealthIT.com, online portal

More Trouble

Posted to News on Sun, May 12 2013
Filed under: Meaningful Use, accountable care organizations, ACOs, Patient Safety, People in healthcare, Doctor-patient relationship, Health care professionals, Technology in healthcare, Payment, Health care & health policy, Change Management, Rob Lamberts, Medical Ethics, health care costs, Choosing Wisely campaign, "sick care", fee-for-service reimbursement, unnecessary services, health care technology, health care waste, prescriptions, Musings of a Distractible Mind, unnecessary medical testing

Avoid The E - Prescribing Penalty

Unknown to many medical practices, as many as 209,000 physicians and other healthcare providers may already be in line for a 1% Medicare payment reduction in 2012 for not writing prescriptions electronically. This potentially creates an ironic situation for those who are planning on achieving "meaningful...

Posted to Medical by mike.jones on Tue, Sep 20 2011

New video podcast on Meaningful Use and the HITECH Act

Nuesoft just released a new video podcast about meaningful use . This is a follow-up to the Top 5 things you need to know about meaningful use podcast that was released in August, 2010. Read the description below for more information. This follow-up presentation digs deeper with updated information for...

Posted to EMR Forum by david2 on Tue, Apr 5 2011

define meaningful training.

How do we train hundreds of thousands of doctors to become meaningful users in a year or two in time for full stimulus incentives? With technology, that’s how. Meaningful use of a certified EHR was recently defined by the Health Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act enacted as...

Posted to EMR Forum by OptimizeHIT on Wed, Mar 30 2011

Effective e-learning is customized

EHR training should be relevant to physicians’ specialties. Can you imagine having a neurosurgeon take time from her busy schedule to sit down in front of a computer to complete a training module that references the clinical scenario of a 21-year-old athlete who planted and twisted his right knee...

Posted to EMR Forum by OptimizeHIT on Sun, Mar 27 2011