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Fri, Oct 30 2009 3:26 PM EST
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On Wednesday after his keynote, David Blumenthal, M.D., National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, met privately with a group of 12 CIOs. The group reflected the diversity of America’s hospitals, from east to west, from academic medical centers to small and rural hospitals.
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Thu, Oct 29 2009 6:04 PM EST
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It’s become a reoccurring theme here in the California desert: should you charge full-bore with an IT implementation in hopes of chasing those highly-touted stimulus dollars, or take a more a patient and deliberate approach and avoid severe penalties down the road?
Linda Reed, vp ... [MORE]
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Thu, Oct 29 2009 6:00 PM EST
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Broadly speaking, the EHR journey in England has the same goals of the EHR journey in the U.S. Change the way health care is practiced and delivered by implementing information technology. According to Archie Galbraith, chief technology information officer at UCLA Medical Sciences, both nations are ... [MORE]
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Thu, Oct 29 2009 5:39 PM EST
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The process of measuring and reporting that a hospital meets the meaningful use criteria—once those criteria are adopted—will evolve over time, said David Blumenthal, M.D., National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, during his morning keynote. “We’re going to be ... [MORE]
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Wed, Oct 28 2009 5:14 PM EST
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You can say this about Dr. David Blumenthal: He is certainly passionate about his work and his belief that information technology can transform health care.
Delivering the keynote this morning, Blumenthal didn’t really break new ground. Those who expected him to hand out advanced copi... [MORE]
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Wed, Oct 28 2009 5:09 PM EST
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CIOs agree: There was no new ground broken as David Blumenthal, M.D., national coordinator for health information technology, addressed the crowd. Yet, Russ Branzell said that “if you listen between the lines,” CIOs got all the direction they needed.
Branzell, the CIO at Poudre ... [MORE]
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Mon, Oct 26 2009 1:12 PM EST
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There they are, those two little words: Meaningful. Use. Did you ever think that combining them into a single phrase could set off such a firestorm? Billions of dollars in funding hang in the balance as the feds do their best impression of Noah Webster and try to define “meaningful use” ... [MORE]
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Wed, Oct 14 2009 4:34 PM EST
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erif;">MGMA’s legislative agenda is as long as any health care interest group’s, but its members may be facing one of the most threatening issues of any group short of the American Medical Association.
Legislation a few years ago that was designed to balance the federal... [MORE]
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Wed, Oct 14 2009 4:29 PM EST
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Admit it: Your eyelids start to droop every time somebody mentions the word “culture.” It’s one of those things you know you probably ought to fix if only you could figure out exactly what it is.
Three presenters at an MGMA session called “Creating a Culture of Safet... [MORE]
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Tue, Oct 13 2009 5:44 PM EST
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The federal stimulus bill approved this spring has a tidy incentive for physicians to adopt health information technology. Doctors can receive $44,000 over five years from the Medicare program, or $63,750 over five years from Medicaid (but not both). There are a lot of strings attached, and the feds... [MORE]
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