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New York: Healthcare in local politics
February 14, 2012 | Tom Sullivan
Rockland County, N.Y. legislator Alden Wolfe speaks with Government Health IT about the effort to save a public health system via HHS grant money, bipartisan efforts at the local level and what the prospect of an administration change might mean to his constituency.
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eHI's 4 recommendations for ACOs
February 10, 2012 | Diana Manos
Group suggests that without a strong IT base, accountable care organizations will struggle to meet their objectives.
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HIMSS: The Garden State and ACOs
February 9, 2012 | Thomas S. Keefe, MA, FHIMSS
Thomas Keefe, HIMSS senior director of regional affairs, shines a light on emerging accountable care organizations in Camden, Newark, and Trenton, NJ.
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MU stage 2 to focus on sharing, patient engagement, CSC report says
February 8, 2012 | Mary Mosquera
Health IT-enabled capabilities to coordinate care and electronically supply patients their data will challenge providers in meaningful use stage 2, report said.
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Colorado shows insurance exchange can be bipartisan
February 7, 2012 | Mary Mosquera
Colorado presents a mixed picture on health reform implementation but is considering options to improve quality and reduce costs.
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New Orleans 'beacon' ramps up health IT for 18 practices
February 6, 2012 | Mary Mosquera
Crescent City Beacon Community will receive tools and training on patient health risk, disease registries and care coordination.
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Will health IT bipartisanship survive the elections?
February 6, 2012 | Mike Miliard
Parties and candidates will inevitably stoke the health reform debate fires between now and November but the one aspect they all seem to agree on, at least publicly, is the raft of benefits health IT brings. But the survival of HIT's bipartisan nature will ultimately be a matter of federal funding -- and not all health-centric technologies are equal.
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Minnesota: A shining star for health IT
February 2, 2012 | Mike Miliard
Often considered the healthiest state, Minnesota began harnessing HIT to bridge private and public health years before the HITECH Act. It's building on that EHR foundation for health information exchange, and is also currently cultivating a new crop of HIT professionals: informaticians.
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How politics distort Americans' perception of health reform
January 30, 2012 | Tom Sullivan
Soundbites and slogans don't approximate the whole PPACA picture, but many U.S. citizens base their understanding -- and potentially their votes -- solely on what politicians tell the public.
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ONC contest seeks tool to schedule post-discharge appointments
January 26, 2012 | Mary Mosquera
ONC opens developer challenge for application to schedule follow-up appointment and post-discharge testing before a hospital leaves the hospital, Mostashari said.
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Majority of Americans think ideology will affect SCOTUS ruling on health law
January 26, 2012 | Kaiser Health News www.kaiserhealthnews.org
Six in 10 people think that the justices' decision on the individual mandate will be based on their own ideological views rather than legal analysis.
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Is ONC's community college HIT program working?
January 20, 2012 | Diana Manos
Demand for health IT professionals is expected to continue growing, and the federal government is training health and technology professionals to meet that need. Whether the program is delivering graduates with skills that employers need is the question.
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Best Practices to Deploy ECM Technologies: Ensure Decisions are Made Based on all the Information, not a Portion of it
October 11, 2011 | On Demand Webinars
In this Web seminar, learn firsthand from five healthcare organizations how, after integrating Perceptive Software enterprise content management (ECM) products, they are realizing cost and time-saving benefits enterprise-wide. The customer panel will share lessons learned and best practices for deploying ECM technology with their business and health information systems.
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The Power of User Virtualization: Meeting Meaningful Use, Optimizing IT and Clinical Productivity
August 23, 2011 | White Papers
Transformative changes such as healthcare reform mandates, advanced stages of meaningful use criteria and conversion from ICD-9 to ICD-10 code sets require healthcare providers’ IT assets to be flexible, scalable and interoperable in order to respond. Learn how user virtualization provides the ability to react quickly while improving user experience and operational efficiency.
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Coordinating Care Across Communities with Microsoft HealthVault Community Connect
May 31, 2011 | On Demand Webinars
In this webinar Dr. Marc Pierson, Lori Nichols, and Brady Davis will discuss how PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center is improving patient adherence to care plans, and community-based care coordination with Microsoft HealthVault Community Connect and Shared Care Plan.
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Leveraging Microsoft HealthVault to Help Your Patients Better Manage Their Health
April 1, 2011 | On Demand Webinars
This session will provide you with an overview of the broad HealthVault ecosystem, discuss how healthcare organizations can leverage it to better support their patients, and provide an update on how HealthVault is supporting the Office of the National Coordinator's (ONC's) Direct Project.
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As Romney takes Florida, Gingrich forges ahead with 'Day One' ACA repeal
February 1, 2012 | Tom Sullivan
Gingrich stays on point that the initial step toward dismantling 40 percent of President Obama's government on his first day would be repealing health care. Romney maintains he would enable states to opt out.
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Healthcare 'flubs in Florida,' Santorum under the gun, Sebelius on Jon Stewart
January 24, 2012 | Tom Sullivan
The GOP candidates are in full swing this week leading up to the Florida primaries, which does not necessarily mean sticking to facts about healthcare. And Secretary Sebelius is a guest on The Daily Show.
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Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes
January 20, 2012 | Tom Sullivan
This Week in Government Health IT ... VC skyrockets in PHRs but speculation about Microsoft's HealthVault continues, Perry backs Gingrich, a look at Newt's long history with HIT, Vermont plans single-payer system, tips for HIEs, and ONCs new video contest.
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Editor's Desk: This Week in Government Health IT
January 13, 2012 | Tom Sullivan
Talk with a Tea Party leader, ONC head on why meaningful use will soar in 2012, turning tablets into security tools, and Big Data inside the Beltway.
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Bowing out, Bachmann maintains health reform 'must be stopped'
January 4, 2012 | Tom Sullivan
The critic of health reform and other federal regulations is ending her bid to defeat President Obama and, in so doing, garnered praise from formerly-bitter rivals.
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Editor's Desk: This Week in Government Health IT
December 16, 2011 | Tom Sullivan
There's more to health IT than EHRs, Berwick's blastings, HAIs come into the picture, the HIX quandary. Are things in healthcare really so bad?
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Editor's Desk: This Week in Government Health IT
December 1, 2011 | Tom Sullivan
Soaring EHR adoption? How sequestration might impact health IT, slight attestation delay, and the VA's CIO on VLER momentum.
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Editor's Desk: This Week in Government Health IT
November 17, 2011 | Tom Sullivan
ICD-10 as the unpopular guy at a party, achieving revenue neutrality during the conversion, golden rules of EHRs, consultancies dust off crystal balls for 2012, and ICD-11.
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A two-foot view of EHR adoption
November 7, 2011 | Dave Roberts
Dave Roberts, HIMSS vice president of government relations, recounts a podiatrist venting about how much he hates his EHR and the meaningful use requirements.
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Editor's Desk: This Week in Government Health IT
November 3, 2011 | Tom Sullivan
ACO, EHRs, HIE, disconcerting poll results about HIPAA 5010, and an explanation of why privacy compliance need not be so scary. Those and more.
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Top 5 takeaways from annual MGMA show
November 1, 2011 | Miriam Paramore
Meaningful use, HIE, ACOs and more were abuzz at the Medical Group Management Association's annual conference.
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Editor's Desk: This Week in Government Health IT
October 27, 2011 | Tom Sullivan
Syndromic surveillance even patients can use, ACOs of course, EHRs, ICD-10, HIPAA 5010 and Watson.
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