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HHS awards Archimedes health data analytics contract
April 30, 2012 |
Mary Mosquera

The contract for the San Francisco-based firm is worth up to $5 million for modeling and simulation software to analyze diseases, treatments and delivery settings.
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Oklahoma gets little attention, but offers 43 delegates
March 6, 2012 |
Bernie Monegain

National political pundits seem to have little to nothing to say about Oklahoma. They save the lion's share of punditry for Ohio, as the nation inched its way to Super Tuesday.
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Performance relies on health IT, Corrigan says
February 22, 2012 |
Mike Miliard

Measures and incentives should be embedded in public reporting programs in every layer of the healthcare system, NQF's CEO said.
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Q&A: On the downside of delaying ICD-10
February 15, 2012 |
Tom Sullivan

Wendy Whittington, CMO of Anthelio Healthcare Solutions, explains what impact a delay could have on the broader healthcare industry if CMS ease its stance on the ICD-10 compliance deadline.
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26 hospitals win HHS grants to battle HAIs
December 15, 2011 |
Bernie Monegain

Totaling $218 million, the funding is meant to identify ways to reduce preventable complications, infections, and injuries and then to ultimately spread them to other providers.
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Mostashari assures patient safety plan sooner than 12 months
November 9, 2011 |
Mary Mosquera

Federal agencies including FDA, AHRQ, NIST, will work with ONC on patient safety reporting, surveillance, and information sharing.
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Unopened iPad stolen from VA as program launches
October 31, 2011 |
Mary Mosquera

Despite a seemingly inauspicious beginning, the Department of Veterans affairs anticipates robust security for a new program that seeks to improve care delivery by allowing mobile devices to be used on the job.
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VA taps HP for T4 Program
October 31, 2011 |
Molly Merrill

HP Enterprise Services will be a prime contractor for the Department of Veterans Affairs' Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology (T4) program, which aims to transform the VA's IT programs in order to improve quality of healthcare and benefits services to veterans, their families and survivors.
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AHRQ funds three centers aimed at preventative care
October 28, 2011 |
Mike Miliard

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality will disburse $4.5 million in grants to three centers focused on improving clinical preventive services and practices such as screening, counseling and use of preventive medications for patients.


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VA, DoD work toward sharing records on previously restricted treatments
October 28, 2011 |
Molly Merrill

The Department of Veterans Affairs announced this week that it will help enabling the sharing records related to the treatment for drug abuse, alcoholism, HIV and sickle cell anemia with the Department of Defense.
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The HIT of ACOs, part 2: Beyond health information exchange
October 17, 2011 |
Dr. John Loonsk

Will accountable care organizations follow the lead of HIEs in analyzing data across participating providers, or surpass them?
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4 tips to boost hospital efficiency
September 16, 2011 |
Michelle McNickle

These tactics help streamline operations and the customer experience. Each is simple and inexpensive.
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Fighting Healthcare Fraud with Public Records and Network Analytics
April 4, 2012 |
Alan Joch

Over 2,500 state and federal law enforcement officials have long relied on the Thomson Reuters CLEAR public-record databases and network analytics to fight fraud. These same resources can also be a powerful tool for healthcare fraud investigators. The discussion on this webinar will explore ways in which public records can be combined with other data-mining methods to improve the effectiveness of both provider and beneficiary investigations.
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Ten Things to Ask Your SAAS Vendor Before Entering the Cloud
October 12, 2011 |
Government Health IT Staff

This whitepaper provides tips based on best practices gathered through analysis of the industry and direct experience with thousands of cloud deployments—including tips from CIOs, program and project managers, directors of IT, engineers, developers, and administrators in various industries and various size companies
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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 12, 2011 |
Government Health IT Staff

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 |
Government Health IT Staff

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 |
GHIT Staff

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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Improving Care Coordination with Online Services
April 1, 2011 |
GHIT Staff

With the objective of improving coordination of care, more and more health care organizations are enabling their care teams to work from the same, complete patient health information. At the same time these organizations need to ensure that such information is appropriately shared with the right stakeholders over time, facilities and practitioners. During this session, Karen Green (CIO, Brooks Rehabilitation), and Eric Moll (CAO, Mason General Hospital) will discuss how their organizations are leveraging Microsoft technologies to unlock new services models that better support their patients, referring providers and bottom line.
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ICD-10 Benefits: A specific example of improving patient care
January 24, 2012 |
Carl Natale

One of the persistent arguments arguments against ICD-10 coding is that it will have no effect on patient care.
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Good lessons on preparing for ICD-10 implementation
January 20, 2012 |
Carl Natale

I can admit I have a different way of looking at things. And sometimes different means wrong.
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The Standards Work Ahead in 2012
December 20, 2011 |
John Halamka, MD

The December HIT Standards Committee included a discussion of the work ahead for the next year based on the priorities we've heard from stakeholders.
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Top 5 Benefits of Clinical Decision Support in the ED
November 28, 2011 |
Robert Hitchcock, M.D.

High-acuity patients and surging patient volumes combine to make the emergency department (ED) a care setting with high variability and potential for medical error.
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Are you feeling 10 percent healthier this year?
October 24, 2011 |
Steve O' Keefe: My Cup of IT

With salaries rising far less than health insurance premiums, perhaps it's time for something new, such as creativity, innovation, and sanity in care delivery.
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Putting the 'IT' in Care Transitions
October 11, 2011 |
Brian Ahier

Healthcare transitions which are not well coordinated can lead to emergencies, higher costs and lower quality. This is a big problem.
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The value of care coordination in ACOs: Twitter recap from HIMSS Virtual Forum
September 13, 2011 |
Kelly Mehler

On Tuesday, Harry Reynolds, Jr., director of Industry Transformation at IBM Global Healthcare, presented attendees at the HIMSS Virtual Events Forum with his "Value of Care Coordination in ACOs" presentation. Here is a Twitter recap of the lecture.
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A look ahead to National Health IT Week
September 9, 2011 |
Frank Irving

The Sixth Annual National Health Information Technology (NHIT) Week will be held Sept. 12-16 in Washington.
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OK Beacon Community: Cloud-based HIE improves quality of care and pop health, contains costs
September 8, 2011 |
David Kendrick, MD

Twice in the last four years, the Commonwealth Fund ranked Oklahoma's healthcare system among the worst in the nation in terms of access, propensity to lead healthy lives, prevention and treatment, equity and avoidable costs for both adult and children patient populations.
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Outcomes Data for VA Medical Centers Posted on CMS Hospital Compare Site
August 9, 2011 |
Frank Irving

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical centers are now included in the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) Hospital Compare Web site, which measures hospital quality based on outcomes of care.
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5 questions to ask about your practice's computer systems
August 3, 2011 |
Carl Natale

I know you're not ready for ICD-10 implementation. You have a lot to do. Like update your computer systems.
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Assessing US National Healthcare IT Efforts
June 13, 2011 |
John Halamka, MD

As I travel the world speaking about the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, I'm often asked to present objective evidence that it is making a difference.
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