Consumer Health

Connecting patients and providers is the holy grail of clinical I.T. This section looks at enabling technologies, such as patient portals and personal health records that are designed for direct use by patients. In addition, patient-centric technologies, such as disease management applications, are covered.

CMS to Use Data to Find the Medically Vulnerable in an Emergency

Joseph Goedert | Apr 22

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is adding a new routine for use of health information to eight “systems of records” or databases, to ease in identifying vulnerable individuals who may need health assistance during an emergency, such as a disaster.

Decision Support

Disease Management

Chronic Care

Group Practices

Hospitals

Health Info Exchange

Payers

Policy & Regulation

Regenstrief HIE Technology to Be Commercialized

Joseph Goedert | Apr 22

The Regenstrief Institute in Indianapolis, which developed the data exchange technology being used by the Indiana Health Information Exchange, has licensed the technology to the exchange to market HIE services outside of Indiana.

EHR

Health Info Exchange

Group Practices

Hospitals

Payers

Stimulus

Policy & Regulation

Study: Non-Adherence High for Osteoporosis Treatment Medications

Joseph Goedert | Apr 18

A study at Kaiser Permanente finds 29.5 percent of women prescribed bisphosphonates, a class of drugs to prevent loss of bone mass in patients with osteoporosis and similar bone diseases, failed to pick up their prescription.

Chronic Care

Disease Management

Group Practices

Hospitals

Medication Management

Top-Tier Insurers Join Mercer Exchange

Justin Stephani, Insurance Networking News | Apr 18

Mercer has announced an initial group of insurance carriers that will offer benefits through Mercer Marketplace, the company’s private benefits exchange for employers’ active employees and their families.

Payers

Hospitals

Group Practices

Policy & Regulation

Health Info Exchange

WEDI Seeks Help for New Report on Next-Generation HIE

Joseph Goedert | Apr 17

The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange is looking for industry volunteers to help put together a definitive roadmap for guiding the next generation of health information exchange technologies.

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Group Practices

Health Info Exchange

Hospitals

Payers

Policy & Regulation