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.


eHealth Initiative Studies the I.T. of ACOs

Joseph Goedert | Feb 10
A new report from stakeholder advocacy group eHealth Initiative explores the health information technology infrastructure needed to support accountable care organizations.
Revenue Cycle Management
Health Info Exchange

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
Decision Support

Verizon, Health Evolution Partners Align to Accelerate Health I.T.

Joseph Goedert | Feb 06
An alliance between telecommunications firm Verizon and investment firm Health Evolution Partners is designed to accelerate development of mobile and cloud-based applications for the health care industry.
Vendor News
Health Info Exchange

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.
Health Analytics
Hospitals

Study: E-Scripts Improve Medication Adherence

Joseph Goedert | Feb 01
A study of de-identified pharmacy data finds patient-first-fill medication adherence--the number of times a patient actually fills a new prescription--increases by 10 percent when the prescription is electronic.
Medication Management
EHR

Building Connections on the Care Continuum

Gary Baldwin | Feb 01
A major success factor for accountable care organizations will be linking caregivers across the spectrum of care delivery. If history is any indication, that's going to be an industrywide struggle.
EHR
Health Info Exchange

Nurses Rounding Up I.T. to Improve Safety

Gary Baldwin | Feb 01
Carolinas Medical Center wins top honors for an innovative system to keep documentation up to date.
Group Practices
Hospitals

Scrambling I.T. to Address Drug Shortages

Joseph Goedert | Feb 01
The daily fight to find critical drugs in chronically short supply isn't getting any easier, and I.T. tools to aid in the search often are lacking.
Medication Management
Hospitals

Putting Social Networks on Trial

Tracy Granzyk Wetzel | Feb 01
There's a broad movement to use social media tools to find patients for clinical trials. But a host of technological and privacy hurdles present a challenge.
Consumer Health
Web Technology

Sorting the Reform Law Options Before the Supreme Court

Joseph Goedert | Jan 25
President Obama in March 2010 signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, implementing enormous changes in the U.S. health care industry. Almost immediately, opponents of the law filed lawsuits challenging its constitutionality.
Policy & Regulation
Payers

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.
Health Analytics
Policy & Regulation

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
Health Analytics

On-Site Employer Clinic Firm Adds Telemedicine

Joseph Goedert | Jan 19
QuadMed, which operates 22 onsite primary care clinics in 12 states for large employers, is adding telemedicine to its slate of services.
Payers
Decision Support

GAO: HHS Lacks Monitoring Controls for Quality Measures

Joseph Goedert | Jan 18
A new report from the Government Accountability Office finds the Department of Health and Human Services lacks appropriate controls to monitor contracted work by the National Quality Forum to deliver to HHS national health care quality measures.
Policy & Regulation
Stimulus

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.
Health Analytics
Consumer Health
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