Health IT Pulse
Health IT Pulse
- May 15, 2012
- Is increased technology the key to ACO care delivery?
- With the accountable care organization (ACO) destined to impact health IT strategy, insurer Aetna and Banner Health Network (BHN) — a non-profit health care system — are adding technology aimed at expanding its collaborative efforts.
The organizations will use for population health management and patient services products, targeting more than 200,000 patients, according to a company [...]
- May 14, 2012
- ONC seeks comments on nationwide health information network governance
- The ONC is in the process of shaping the governance structure needed to establish the nationwide health information network, or NHIN, and is seeking comments from the public. This governance structure is necessary to establish a common set of rules for privacy, security, business and technical requirements for nationwide health information exchange.
In anticipation of developing [...]
- May 9, 2012
- Will election influence meaningful use stage 2 release date?
- Here at SearchHealthIT, we’re creating an office pool for when the final meaningful use stage 2 rule will drop.
National HIT policy leader and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center CIO John Halamka, MD says it’s on track for August delivery. Vendor co-op Premier Healthcare Alliance affirmed its support for such a timetable in comments to CMS.
But [...]
- May 8, 2012
- Patients, providers alike benefit from dermatology rural telemedicine
- With scores of health IT leaders leaving the ATA’s annual meeting at the beginning of May, it is no surprise telemedicine news continues to make headlines — in particular, to deploy rural telemedicine services for underserved and impoverished areas around the U.S.
One name to watch is David Wong, M.D., a Stanford dermatologist, and co-founder and [...]
- May 7, 2012
- Comments closing for meaningful use stage 2 proposed rule
- As the meaningful use stage 2 comment period comes to a close, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) will have its hands full gathering and analyzing all the feedback received. Reactions to meaningful use stage 2 from industry stakeholders have been a mixed bag, with immediate concerns focusing on the measures [...]
- May 3, 2012
- UCLA researchers bring gaming, crowdsourcing to telemedicine platform
- There are many different telemedicine platforms making their way into the U.S. health care system: Telestroke services, remote patient monitoring and the use of text messaging are just a few. Here’s one more that could be joining the forefront: Telepathology.
Researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science and the David Geffen [...]
- May 2, 2012
- Alaska telehealth access to specialists beats Boston in-person
- SAN JOSE, CA – Incoming American Telemedicine Association president and CIO of the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium Stewart Ferguson is a health IT stalwart. Previously, he oversaw the Alaska Federal Health Care Access Network (AFHCAN), Alaska’s largest telehealth project, which comprises 248 remote site deployments. AFCHAN conducts more than 33,000 telemedicine encounters yearly.
Dressed to [...]
- May 1, 2012
- VA mental health department scrutinized over performance metrics, care delivery
- In an effort to bolster data and boost performance measures, managers pushed staffers to create ways that delivered minimum amounts of care to veterans while increasing the number of patients seen for mental health-related services, according to testimony from Nicolas Tolentino, former administrator at the VA Medical Center in Manchester, N.H.
Tolentino participated in a hearing [...]
- April 26, 2012
- Virtual training in health care: Docs want it, report shows
- By Greg McInerney, Editorial Assistant
“Give us more technology” cry physicians across America. At least according to a recent report jointly published by communications company ON24 and MedData, a health care research firm.
The April 2012 Joint Survey of Physician Digital Behavior certainly produced some telling results. Of the 971 participants surveyed, 84.1% would prefer to attend [...]
- April 25, 2012
- ATA: Burning issues chase telemedicine providers
- Last year, SearchHealthIT covered its first American Telemedicine Association (ATA) meeting, after running into telemedicine pioneer and ATA president emeritus Jay Sanders, M.D. at a 2010 conference in D.C. - and his amazingly upbeat evangelism for the telehealth-care niche drew us to this gathering of telemedicine providers.
The meeting, held in Tampa last year and in [...]
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