Disease Management

Electronic health records have great potential to help clinicians better manage patients with chronic diseases, such as diabetes, asthma and obesity. Disease management tools include identification of at-risk patients, lab and results alerts, and condition-specific registries.

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

Consumer Health

Group Practices

Hospitals

Medication Management

Feds Ask Again for Comments on HIT Ambulatory Workflow Issues

Joseph Goedert | Apr 16

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is again asking for public comments as it prepares a study to assess the relationship between health information technology implementation and health care workflows in six ambulatory practices becoming medical homes.

EHR

Health Info Exchange

Group Practices

Chronic Care

Policy & Regulation

Truven Health Analytics Names Top 15 Health Systems

Joseph Goedert | Apr 15

In its fifth annual study, Truven Health Analytics has listed the top 15 health systems based on scores from eight measures of quality, patient perception of care and efficiency.

Hospitals

Chronic Care

CDC Wants to Use Phone Texting to Conduct Surveys

Joseph Goedert | Apr 15

The Centers for Disease Control is readying a feasibility study of conducting population health surveys via consumers’ smartphones.

Consumer Health

Policy & Regulation

Mobile Technology

Tracking HIT Acquisitions in 1Q 2013

Apr 14

Chronic Care

Consumer Health

Electronic Data Interchange

Group Practices

Health Info Exchange

Hospitals

Mobile Technology

Payers

Practice Management

Revenue Cycle Management

Revenue Cycle & Payments

Vendor News

Health Datapalooza to Feature a Coding Challenge

Joseph Goedert | Apr 12

Bryan Sivak, chief technology officer at the Department of Health and Human Services, is seeking 10 coding teams for a competition at the Health Datapalooza conference, June 3-4 in Washington, with $25,000 in prizes on the line.

Coding

Group Practices

Policy & Regulation

Chronic Care

URAC Readies ACO Accreditation, Seeks Comment

Joseph Goedert | Apr 11

Accreditation firm URAC is seeking public comment on standards and measures for a new accreditation program being developed for accountable care organizations.

Chronic Care

Consumer Health

EHR

Health Info Exchange

Group Practices

Hospitals

Payers

Policy & Regulation

Revenue Cycle & Payments

Revenue Cycle Management

Joint Commission Issues Alert on Medical Device Alarm Fatigue

Joseph Goedert | Apr 08

The Joint Commission on April 8 issued a Sentinel Event Alert to hospitals, imploring leaders to take a focused look at the serious risk caused by “alarm fatigue” from medical devices.

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Consumer Health

Hospitals

Chronic Care

Medication Management

Medical Imaging

Policy & Regulation

Mobile Technology

New Rankings to Show Hospitals’ Depth of Patient Engagement

Joseph Goedert | Apr 08

Patient engagement and care coordination software vendor Axial Exchange has launched the Patient Engagement Index to rank hospitals in the United States in how deeply patients are involved in their treatment.

Consumer Health

Health Info Exchange

Chronic Care

Hospitals

President Obama’s Challenge: Map the Brain

Joseph Goedert | Apr 02

President Obama on April 2 launched a national public-private initiative to map the human brain, adding federal funds to private sector efforts as was done to map the human genome.

Medical Imaging

Decision Support

Consumer Health

EHR

Hospitals

Policy & Regulation

Health Info Exchange

Group Practices

Partners In Accountability

Gary Baldwin | Apr 01

Providers and payers forging collaborative relationships under the ACO banner face formidable I.T. challenges.

Chronic Care

Data Repositories

Decision Support

Group Practices

EHR

Health Info Exchange

Coding

Electronic Data Interchange

Hospitals

Payers

Revenue Cycle Management

Revenue Cycle & Payments

Policy & Regulation

Inspired by Intricacy

Elizabeth Gardner | Apr 01

Simon Lin really wanted to be Steve Jobs-he started programming in the fifth grade and released his first shareware when he was 15.

Consumer Health

Hospitals

Group Practices

Decision Support

Mobile Technology

My Biggest Mistake: HIT Leaders Come Clean

Joseph Goedert | Apr 01

CIOs talk about professional stumbles and explain the lessons they learned from them.

EHR

Systems Integration

Decision Support

Group Practices

Hospitals

Practice Management

Chronic Care

Nicotine Gum Labels Revised by FDA to Help More Smokers Quit

Anna Edney of Bloomberg | Apr 01

Users of smoking-cessation products such as GlaxoSmithKline Plc’s Nicorette gum will be able to use the products longer and in combination with other therapies under new U.S. Food and Drug Administration labeling rules.

Consumer Health

Decision Support

Group Practices

Hospitals

Payers

Policy & Regulation

CMS Dashboard Makes Medicare Chronic Conditions Data Available

Joseph Goedert | Apr 01

A new dashboard from CMS makes available government data on the prevalence of multiple chronic conditions that many Medicare beneficiaries have, the services they require and how much Medicare spends on chronic treatments.

Chronic Care

Consumer Health

Group Practices

Hospitals

Policy & Regulation

Revenue Cycle & Payments