American Well
MARCH 31, 2013
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Medicine and Technology
MARCH 5, 2013
This morning on the second day of the 2013 HIMSS conference, Dr. Eric Topol gave an entertaining, engaging keynote about the future of medicine and the emergence of digital health. He came on stage wearing his Walking Gallery jacket painted by Regina Holliday. We saw a surge of tweets from the medical community praising Regina for her patient advocacy efforts through her growing Walking Gallery.
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Healthcare Exchange Standards
MARCH 19, 2013
One of the specific sensitivities we have in healthcare when thinking through Privacy and Security is the issue of what happens during failures of the “access control infrastructure”. For example when a natural disaster takes out some component of the security layer, such as User-Authentication. In industries like Banking, this is very simple, they ‘fail-closed’.
Insulin Nation
MARCH 4, 2013
Three months went by. I got smaller, and smaller, and smaller. Almost 70 pounds down. I was shrinking–it felt exactly like that. Like I was contracting and leaving my clothes hanging on my body. I was shrinking back inside the acceptable boundary a body was supposed to have, feeling less and less like I was taking up an outsized, overgenerous portion of space, coming into proportion with the rest of the world.
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CMS.gov
MARCH 6, 2013
By: Christine Stahlecker, Director, Administrative Simplification Group, Office of E-Health Standards and Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Did you know that the United States spends more than $150 billion annually on health care administration, and for the average physician, two-thirds of a full time employee is needed to carry out billing and insurance related tasks?
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Medicine and Technology
MARCH 14, 2013
Today is Pi Day. The unofficial holiday at MIT. Today, MIT also announces who has been admitted to the class of 2017. You will see some high school students announcing their acceptance to MIT today on Twitter. Have you memorized Pi? 3.14159 Next year (2015), we're going to celebrate pi to 3.1415! I think the entire geek community will go haywire that day and they won't be able to contain themselves.
Medicine and Technology
MARCH 3, 2013
I am in New Orleans attending the 2013 HIMSS conference. Follow updates on Twitter by following the #HIMSS13 hashtag. Today, I was in the HIMSS/AMDIS Physicians' IT Symposium: Reviewing the Past, Assessing the Present and Planning for the Future. Let me highlight a few key points and reflections I jotted down as I sat through several presentations about Meaningful Use (MU) and the future of clinical informatics: Health IT is about improving clinical workflow efficiency and patient care.
Medicine and Technology
MARCH 1, 2013
Were you in residency before 2005? Did you receive your Medical Resident FICA Refund ? Here's what the IRS says about the FICA refunds: Why are FICA refunds being paid to medical residents and their employers? Employers (typically hospitals and medical schools) and individual taxpayers (medical residents) began filing FICA refund claims in the 1990’s, based on their position that medical residents are students eligible for the FICA tax exception under Internal Revenue Code section 3121(b)(10).
Medicine and Technology
MARCH 26, 2013
Join the American Public Health Association ( APHA ) for their third annual National Public Health Week Twitter chat on April 3, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. (Eastern Time). Engage with public health advocates on important public health topics. APHA will focus the conversation on the value of public health and its return on investment in our communities. The chat will explore and discuss ways in which evidence-based disease prevention and health promotion initiatives can save lives and money.
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Effective collaboration among all care team members is critical to delivering better patient outcomes. A key element to achieving effective collaboration is through the implementation of a clinical communication and collaboration platform. In a fast-paced, high-stress and critical environment, people tend to do whatever gets the job done. Therefore will scramble and use the systems, people, or processes around them to get an outcome more quickly - which can often be at the expense of quality.
Medicine and Technology
MARCH 25, 2013
There are so many wearable technologies these days. We have little fitness gadgets like Fitbits and Nike+ FuelBands. We have Google Glass - a wearable computer that looks like glasses. We even have smartwatches that link to all sorts of sensors or with our smartphone to keep up even more connected than ever before. Do these gadgets actually improve health?
Medicine and Technology
MARCH 24, 2013
NextGen is hosting a complimentary webinar this Wednesday titled, " Fragmented Care and Accelerating Change —Moving from Chaos to Coordination." Change is happening but how far and fast will it go? Today's healthcare landscape is a patchwork of disjointed networks that have become inefficient and ineffective for modern medicine. What are what the real accelerators of change and who will be driving them?
Medicine and Technology
MARCH 11, 2013
Don't miss this event in New York next week! Doctors 2.0: Provider’s Perspectives Panel March 18, 2013 6-9pm New York Academy of Medicine 1216 5th Avenue, New York, NY Register here: [link] About Doctors 2.0 Doctors 2.0 is part of the New York Healthcare Innovation Meetup Group. It is a volunteer organization aimed to connect providers and healthcare technology innovators with a forum to network, collaborate and promote thought leadership.
Medicine and Technology
MARCH 7, 2013
Register now for ATA 2013 - American Telemedicine Association May 5 - 7, 2013 Austin, TX Used code "LinkedInATA" for $50 off your full meeting (non-member) registration. After April 1, the registration price goes up. Join 6,000 healthcare and technology professionals at the world's largest telemedicine meeting. Featuring over 450 presentations on telehealth and mHealth and industry expo.
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Ambiq®, a leading developer of ultra-low-power semiconductor solutions that deliver a multifold increase in energy efficiency, introduces HeartKit, its latest addition to neuralSPOT. This optimized AI model enables running various real-time heart monitoring applications to help users and their healthcare providers quickly identify any irregular events to take necessary actions.
Medicine and Technology
MARCH 6, 2013
Some of us wear Fitbits and Nike+ FuelBands. These track our physical activity and even our sleep. Other people are wearing continuous glucose monitors or blood pressure monitoring watches. This year, we're seeing many new wearable sensors coming to market. Are wearable sensors ready for prime time? Perhaps, the bigger question is: are doctors ready to do something with all this data?
Medicine and Technology
MARCH 6, 2013
Today, President Clinton delivered a keynote and the entire auditorium was completely packed and all the overflow areas were full as well. When you have 35,000 people in the New Orleans convention center, that's what you get: a very crowded room that overflows. He spoke about a number of public health topics ranging from worldwide healthcare disparities, the pediatric obesity epidemic, and the need to provide patients with their own health data so that they can be empowered to manage their o
Medicine and Technology
MARCH 2, 2013
I hope you will be able to join me on Tuesday March 5 for this complimentary HP & Intel Lunch Panel on BYOD at the HIMSS13 conference. You'll also have a chance to win an HP ElitePad 900 tablet PC! While you are attending HIMSS in New Orleans, HP and Intel invite you to be our guest at an informative panel discussion over a delicious buffet lunch.
Medicine and Technology
MARCH 30, 2013
Today is March 30 and it's also National Doctor's Day! Don't forget to tell your doctor how much you appreciate him/her on this holiday.
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This report explores current issues in the behavioral health industry in 2023. Topics covered include quantitative statistics describing the overall increase in behavioral health issues, the impact of psychologist and staff burnout, how HIPAA compliance is once again at the top of our minds & much more!
CMS.gov
MARCH 5, 2013
By Maribel Franey. Improving the delivery of health care is the focus of the eHealth initiative. But eHealth also involves promoting standards and processes that will enable patient information to be shared in a more efficient and timely manner, while ensuring the data is kept private and secure. This brings me to the topic of privacy and security. What is the big deal about privacy and security, anyway?
CMS.gov
MARCH 4, 2013
By Elizabeth Holland. This week, industry leaders from all over the country gather for the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society conference and discuss the future of health information technology implementation, and we at CMS are pleased to report updates on our efforts to promote and support the meaningful use of electronic health record (EHR) technology in health care.
Medicine and Technology
MARCH 12, 2013
Good luck to all the 4th year medical students who are matching for residency positions!
CMS.gov
MARCH 4, 2013
By Robert Tagalicod, Director, Office of E-Health Standards and Services. Welcome to the CMS eHealth blog. Here you can find information about the eHealth initiative that CMS is launching at the annual HIMSS conference in New Orleans. Upcoming blogs will highlight HIMSS sessions about eHealth and its programs, and we look forward to continuing the conversation as our eHealth programs reach key milestones over the coming months.
Speaker: Dr. Mauvareen Beverley, Patient Engagement and Cultural Competence Specialist
If you’re a healthcare provider, chances are you have experienced symptoms of burnout yourself or have colleagues who are currently facing extreme career dissatisfaction. One of the many ways to partially alleviate burnout is active patient engagement. By engaging with patients to understand their needs and preferences, healthcare providers can develop treatments tailored to the individual patient.
CMS.gov
MARCH 5, 2013
By Robert Tagalicod, Director, Office of E-Health Standards and Services. Transforming Health Care. What is the most important electronic initiative in health care today? Is it the switch to ICD-10 that will enable us to capture information more accurately? The widespread adoption and use of electronic health records (EHRs) to provide an infrastructure for electronic data exchange?
CMS.gov
MARCH 7, 2013
By Patrick Conway, MD, MSc. Stage 2 of the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs. The next step on the path of meaningful adoption of health information technology (HIT) for providers—will launch later this year for hospitals and next year for eligible professionals. How will this next phase improve health care and reduce the burden on providers?
Medicine and Technology
MARCH 4, 2013
Have you considered a virtual doctor visit? The idea is gaining momentum among more patients. Cisco released results from a recent survey about virtual patient visits and they found that most North American consumers – nearly eighty percent – are comfortable submitting a complete medical history and diagnostic information to help ensure they have all the information available to treat them and offer the most personal diagnosis possible.
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