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Open Access Week 2014
What do brain machine interfaces and Open Science have in common? They are two examples of concepts that I never thought I would get to see materialised in my lifetime. I was wrong. Read More »
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Open Development And Social Impact Bonds: Rethinking Healthcare Delivery
By incentivising investment through payment on results, and by making information open, local entrepreneurs can fill the gaps and help deliver much needed services Read More »
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Open Source Competitions And Prizes #1
I recently read Future Perfect by Steven Johnson. The book articulates what is meant by a person being a “Peer Progressive” – someone with a set of values based on the power of distributed networks to solve problems (a “Baran Web”) as opposed to a more regulated, centralized mechanism (a “Legrand Star”). Read More »
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Open-Source Clinical Decision Support To Help Meaningful Use?
Stage 1 Meaningful Use requires the implementation of one clinical decision support (CDS) rule in patient diagnosis and care. CDS is an interactive decision support system that links observations of a patient’s individual electronic health record (EHR) with a repository of health knowledge or an artificial intelligence algorithm to provide physicians with case-specific diagnoses or suggestions for further action. Read More »
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Open-source Work Aims To Align CQM, CDS
Providers and hospitals pursuing EHR incentives know about clinical quality measures (CQMs) and clinical decision support (CDS) in terms of reporting measures required under Stage 2 of meaningful use. [...] Read More »
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Patient Groups Call For Direct To Help Accelerate Data Exchange
The Direct standard, which enables participants to send authenticated and encrypted health data directly to trusted recipients online, could help to accelerate health information exchange efforts, according to a pair of consumer coalitions. Read More »
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Patient-Generated Data Is The Future Of Care, VA Official Says
Patient engagement is on the minds of a lot of people in healthcare, spurred not only by a requirement in Stage 2 Meaningful Use regulations, but by imperatives to improve the quality of care and boost patient satisfaction. [...] Read More »
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Physicians Spooked By Failure Stories—EHR Adoption Suffers
Evan Steele, CEO of EHR company SRSsoft discuss how physicians are spooked by EHR failure stories causing long-term EHR adoption rates to suffer. Read More »
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Poor Integration Between Hospital EHRs And NICUs
Responding to my story about lack of funding for electronic health records for pediatric nursing homes, Brian Carter, a superb neonatologist at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, notes... Read More »
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Prostate Cancer Radiation Therapy Rises As Doctors Profit
Urologists who buy their own equipment to provide expensive radiation treatment are more likely to use it to treat prostate cancer even when the benefit for patients is unclear, research shows. Read More »
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RAND Analysts Say Misaligned Incentives Hinder Interoperability
In 2005, several RAND Corporation researchers predicted that rapid adoption of electronic health records and health IT systems could save the greater U.S. healthcare system about $80 billion annually — not a huge amount of the $2 trillion spent that year, but worth it for the government and providers to invest money, labor and time. Read More »
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Reducing Hospital Readmissions Using Data Science And A Social Twist
Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center uses patient's social setting to improve adherence Read More »
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Reform Update: JAMA Study Suggests Money Alone May Not Be Enough To Improve Performance, Reduce Costs
One goal of health reform, among many, is to break the industry's dependence on incentives for hospitals and doctors to do a high volume of business. Incentives for volume invite wasteful spending, of course, and also can be harmful if patients receive unnecessary care as a result. Read More »
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Resolutions On EHR Usability, ROI: A Welcome Relief, Or Just Lip Service?
I read with great interest this week's proposals to improve electronic health records in the new year. First we have Jacob Reider, Acting National Coordinator for Health IT, who published a blog post on Jan. 6 acknowledging that EHR usability continues to be an unresolved issue that remains a priority for ONC. [...] Read More »
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Sen. Hatch Calls For Pausing Meaningful Use Program
Trying to soften the sting of his remarks by iterating that he does not want to see progress stalled on health IT adoption, Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch explained that the federal government cannot afford to spend money on programs that are not working. Read More »
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