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NIST, ONC plan measures, testing to improve health IT usability

 Mary Mosquera April 25, 2011
ONC-funded research is establishing usability measures, while NIST will unveil in June its procedures for vendors and developers to test EHRs.
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Doctors Using Electronic Health Records Provide Higher Quality Healthcare

 Brian Ahier October 22, 2012
The use of electronic health records is linked to significantly higher quality care, according to a new study by Lisa Kern and her team, from the Health Information Technology Evaluation Collaborative in the US.
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Inside Meaningful Use 2 NPRMs: A difficult balance

 Debra Alligood White March 12, 2012
Between the lines of the proposed rules is CMS' recognition that meaningful use will take 4 years, right alongside mention that much of the existing EHR technology does not support certain MU2 core and menu objectives, while goals in patient engagement, care coordination, public health reporting, and medication reconciliation through HIE remains -- and then there's the foreshadowing of stage 4.
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Reducing healthcare administrative inefficiencies with big data

 Roger Foster May 22, 2012
In part 4 of his ongoing series, Roger Foster presents 3 tactics for leveraging big data to cut the administrative inefficiencies estimated to cost the U.S. healthcare industry as much as $150 billion every year.
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6 ways big data can boost healthcare

 Michelle McNickle May 09, 2012
What with health entities 'drowning in information but dying of thirst' the analysis of big data sets hold great promise. Here are half-a-dozen things to know now.
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ONC launches project to query EHRs for population health data

 Mary Mosquera September 07, 2011
Query Health effort will identify standards and services to distribute requests for public health, quality reporting, and research data.
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The 6 hottest HIT job skills for 2012

 Michelle McNickle November 29, 2011
As health IT continues gaining momentum, half-a-dozen hot spots are emerging that will demand new talent come 2012.
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Why HAI health IT should fall under meaningful use

 Sumant Ramachandra, M.D., Ph.D. December 13, 2011
Hospital-acquired infections are a wasteful but preventable expense. Technologies that could help are available, and the U.S. government should incentivize cash-strapped hospitals to adopt them much they way it has with EHRs.
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Predictions 2012: Consumers engage, drive HIT

 Marc Perlman December 30, 2011
Personal accountability for health will fuel health IT investments, HIE models will mature, as some bottlenecks will persist.
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Patient data access will kickstart PCAST exchange vision

Mary Mosquera April 18, 2011
Health IT advisory panel suggests exchange uses to engage patients in stage 2 of meaningful use that also push toward PCAST universal exchange language.
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Are politics extinguishing state health insurance exchanges?

 Mary Mosquera April 16, 2012
Development of state health insurance exchanges "is not for sissies," as the full enormity of the task is not realized until states do it -- neither, then, are the politics around it, and the fight is happening in the state legislatures' trenches.
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Q&A: Moving from a PCMH to a 'medical neighborhood' via Direct

Tom Sullivan May 31, 2012
MedAllies' CEO John Blair and CMO Holly Miller explain how the Direct protocol is laying the foundation for more efficient and safer transitions of care, beginning to transform the Hudson Valley into something of a patient-centered medical community.
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An inside look at Maine's MMIS implementation

 Brenda Harvey July 19, 2011
The state's previous Medicaid Management Information System was a nightmare, but the lessons learned, and heeded, led to a successful health IT project. Here's how Maine made it happen.
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An inside look at Maine's MMIS implementation

 Robin Chacon July 19, 2011
The state's previous Medicaid Management Information System was a nightmare, but the lessons learned, and heeded, led to a successful health IT project. Here's how Maine made it happen.
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Why the EHR market is on the brink of mass consolidation

 Robert Rowley, MD July 18, 2012
Robert Rowley, former CMIO of Practice Fusion, analyzes meaningful use data and finds the sheer number of EHR vendors unsustainable. That's one among the reasons the market is ripe for mergers and acquisitions activity.
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Apps focused on controlling weight take top prizes

 Erin McCann June 05, 2012
An obesity application and one for nutritional literacy won the top two prizes at the Health Data and Innovation Week Code-a-Thon in Washington D.C.
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HIE 2.0 closer than it might appear

 Tom Sullivan February 26, 2013
The health information exchange model is metamorphosing from its initial phase of Direct secure messaging and patient look-up toward a new age of value-added services that one HIE director believes "will have a profound effect on healthcare," quality across America.
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EHR dissatisfaction: A tech or people problem?

 Kimberly Martini May 06, 2013
Frequently, healthcare entities focus on how the EHR will work, rather than what frontline clinicians will do with it, which creates growing user frustration, extended adoption times and increased costs. But with proper planning, an effective paper to pixel transition is possible.
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DoD and VA pursue PCMH model

Ephraim Schwartz October 31, 2011
The agencies are harnessing health technologies to improve doctor-patient interaction by reaching patients – and their health problems – right where they reside. Here’s how they plan to transform that from buzzword into better care.
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HIMSS calling all health IT pros!

 Mark D. Sugrue, RN-BC May 16, 2012
To meet the demands of a growing healthcare industry, HIMSS offers advice for experienced informatics experts and novices to the health IT workforce alike.
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