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• HIT Think How medication data and analytics can help the ER cut opioid abuse

  

  Chetak Patel, MD

  Emergency medical physician University of South Carolina/Palmetto Health Richland

  Combining information from prescription drug monitoring programs with analytics can provide a snapshot that may help busy ER clinicians spot potential problems.

  Controlled substances August 15

  Controlled substances August 15

• Halting Obamacare subsidies would boost deficit, CBO says

  

  Eliminating cost-sharing reductions would boost government spending $194B over the next 10 years.

  Insurance Bloomberg News August 15

  Insurance Bloomberg News August 15

• Video 60 Seconds Smarter: Episode Analytics

  From diagnosis to treatment to aftercare, healthcare interventions require encounters with many different providers, which can create challenges.

  Medical practice management January 13, 2016

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  Medical practice management January 13, 2016

• 7 major EHR provisions in the PPS final rule

  

  CMS offers providers more flexibility in federal requirements for records systems.

  EHR August 15

  EHR August 15

• Hackers hit dermatology practice through cloud vendor

  

  Alabama specialists offering patients identity protection after unauthorized access to data.

  Data breaches Joseph Goedert August 15

  Data breaches Joseph Goedert August 15

• Vanderbilt readies for transition to unified Epic software platform

  

  Training on the new system kicked off in early August and will continue until the planned go-live transition on November 2.

  EHR system transition Greg Slabodkin August 15

  EHR system transition Greg Slabodkin August 15

• 8 ways to measure the surge in venture funding for HIT

  

  Cash flowing into healthcare technology is surging, and merger-acquisition activity remains high.

  Venture funding August 15

  Venture funding August 15

• HIT Think Why the stalled ACA repeal effort bodes well for HIT

  

  Ken Perez

  Vice President of Healthcare Policy Omnicell

  As value-based care initiatives such as ACOs continue to grow, providers will have a clearer picture of the technology they need to flourish.

  Accountable care August 14

  Accountable care August 14

• Buffalo med school gets $2.5M grant to train informatics researchers

  

  Program to meet growing need for investigators trained in biomedical computing, says Peter Elkin, MD.

  Analytics Greg Slabodkin August 14

  Analytics Greg Slabodkin August 14

• Microsoft takes aim at new blockchain initiative

  

  CoCo Framework looks to serve as trusted framework for distributed ledger technology.

  Blockchain Penny Crosman August 14

  Blockchain Penny Crosman August 14