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Data mining in health care is in its infancy, but it is a natural outgrowth of the EHR systems beginning to proliferate in the sector. Hospitals and group practices are mining data for many purposes, including identification of at-risk patients, trends in service line utilization, and improvement opportunities in the revenue cycle.


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New Content on HHS Consumer Web Sites

Joseph Goedert | Feb 08
Two agencies of the Department of Health and Human Services have introduced new Web-based health management tools for consumers.
Consumer Health
Disease Management

CSC Report Looks Ahead to Stage 2 Meaningful Use

Joseph Goedert | Feb 07
A new report from Computer Sciences Corp. examines the lessons learned from attesters during Stage 1 of the electronic health records meaningful use program, and looks at criteria changes that could be in Stage 2.
EHR
Group Practices

Survey: Shifts May be Coming in CMIO Demographics

Joseph Goedert | Feb 06
A survey of chief medical information officers, with respondents tilted toward multi-hospital organizations in the South, finds that CMIOs are getting a little younger and the ranks of women are growing.
Hospitals
Disease Management

Survey: Docs Love Mobile Devices, I.T. Departments Don’t

Joseph Goedert | Feb 03
A survey from Spyglass Consulting Group finds widespread physician acceptance of mobile computing devices, but much lower acceptance at the hospitals they work in.
Group Practices
Mobile Technology

Information Governance: The Essential Accountability Wrapper

Linda Kloss | Feb 01
Building on the foundational concepts in "Stress Testing Health Information Management and Governance" (January edition, p. 42), this article kicks off a series of "getting specific" discussions on information governance and the building blocks of enterprise information management.
Policy & Regulation
EHR

Survey: U.S. and Foreign Docs Differ on Many I.T. Benefits

Joseph Goedert | Jan 26
A survey of more than 3,700 physicians across eight nations finds common ground on some benefits of health information technology, including better data access for research, improving care coordination and reducing errors.
EHR
Group Practices

Hospital CEOs Outline Challenges in a New World

Joseph Goedert | Jan 24
A new report from Huron Consulting Group summarizes what hospital CEOs feel are the biggest challenges in a changing industry.
Policy & Regulation
Revenue Cycle Management

New Name, COO for MedQuist

Joseph Goedert | Jan 24
Medical transcription services and software vendor MedQuist Holdings Inc. has changed its name to M*Modal, the name of the speech recognition and natural language processing firm it acquired in August 2011.
Document Management
Hospitals

Consumer Medical & Drug Comparison Services Integrate, Target Employers

Joseph Goedert | Jan 20
Castlight Health Inc., which operates a Web site enabling consumers to compare providers’ prices and quality for medical procedures, will add prescription drug price comparison data.
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Consumer Health
Web Technology

Tulsa Beacon Community Adopts Decision Support

Joseph Goedert | Jan 19
MyHealth Access Network in Tulsa, Okla., one of 17 federally funded Beacon Communities to serve as model sites for best practices in adoption and use of health information technology, will implement clinical decision support software from Archimedes Inc., San Francisco.
Decision Support
EHR

New Health I.T. Tutorials from the AMA

Joseph Goedert | Jan 17
The American Medical Association’s newest additions to its Web site are three video tutorials to aid physicians in adopting health information technology.
Group Practices
Web Technology

Who’s in Thomson Reuters’ Top 15 Health Systems?

Joseph Goedert | Jan 17
Thomson Reuters for the fourth year has named the top 15 health systems in the nation based on clinical quality data from more than 300 organizations.
Consumer Health
Hospitals

In Defense of ObamaCare

Joseph Goedert | Jan 17
A year ago, I wrote a blog on why health care reform won’t work. I was wrong, in part.
Disease Management
Health Info Exchange

Pediatric Cancer Genome Data Open to Researchers

Joseph Goedert | Jan 12
Two years ago, St. Jude Children’s Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine started the Pediatric Cancer Genome Project to sequence the entire genomes of normal and cancer cells of 600 pediatric cancer patients over three years.
Disease Management
Data Repositories

Hospital Database to Add Physician Data

Joseph Goedert | Jan 11
Billians HealthDATA will bolster its hospital sales and marketing database of business intelligence through an alliance with HealthLink Dimensions, which will add hospital-affiliated physician data to the database.
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