November 21st 2024
Coverage from the recent Institute for Value-Based Medicine event with NYU Langone Health.
November 20th 2024
Delve into the current state of prescription digital therapeutics (PDTs) adoption and uncover strategies for increasing payer approval and achieving widespread coverage of PDTs.
Outcomes and Quality of Care in Stroke Patients Not Influenced by EHRs
May 5th 2015A study published in in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology found that maintaining electronic health records for ischemic stroke patients did not improve health outcomes or care quality in the 1236 hospitals evaluated between 2007 and 2010.
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How Healthcare Innovation Centers Are Transforming Healthcare Delivery
May 3rd 2015Between November 2014 and January 2015, The Commonwealth Fund conducted an online survey of innovation centers affiliated with healthcare organizations to learn about their potential role in promoting health system transformation.
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Half of Providers Find Big Data Confusing
April 29th 2015Despite a general sense that engaging in big data analytics is important for success in the current health information technology landscape, 51% of organizations do not truly know what kind of data-or how much of it-they need to collect
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Patient Portals Could Exacerbate Disparities Among Older Patients
April 28th 2015A study of the use of patient portals among older Americans found clear disparities in the registration and use of this technology. The results were published in the Journal of the Americans Medical Informatics Association.
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Engaging Clinician Super Users for Successful EHR Implementation
April 27th 2015Enlisting electronic health record (EHR) super users to provide support to employees is not enough to foster EHR implementation success-super users' behaviors can be an important influence, researchers from Yale University found.
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Remote Monitoring for Heart Failure Patients Reduces Hospitalizations, Death
April 26th 2015Remote monitoring for heart failure patients resulted in fewer hospitalizations and deaths than a similar group of patients receiving usual care during a 4-month study, but the benefits didn't last beyond the study period.
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Optimizing the Use of Telephone Nursing Advice for Upper Respiratory Infection Symptoms
April 22nd 2015Telephone nursing advice for home care offers an effective and clinically appropriate way to manage upper respiratory infection symptoms for adult members of a large integrated health plan.
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Hospitals Prefer In-House, Custom-Built Health Apps
March 31st 2015Hospitals like Boston Children's and Penn Medicine think they are better off building in-house apps that are custom-made for their workflow, rather than risk buying those available in the market, which may not necessarily be a perfect fit.
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Digital Security Is Not a Priority for Healthcare
February 13th 2015Data breaches in the healthcare industry happen more often than you might think. Financial institutions, retailers, and other organizations have all suffered major breaches, but the healthcare sector is an increasingly attractive target for hackers.
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Health IT Creates Unintentional Healthcare Disparities
February 2nd 2015Health information technology (IT) can create greater healthcare disparities if all patient groups and their concerns aren't considered properly, panelists said on the first day of the annual meeting of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT.
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ONC Outlines Timelines for Interoperability Goals, Beginning With 2017 Deadline
January 30th 2015The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has released the first draft of its interoperability roadmap to deliver better care through the exchange and use of health information technology.
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