Some hospitals are beginning to look outside their own industry for ways to improve doctor-patient communications to prevent mistakes leading to unnecessary readmissions. “What would you do differently if you assumed the patient knew nothing about healthcare and it was totally your responsibility as the healthcare provider to meet them where they are and not
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The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT recently released a governance framework for health information exchange (HIE), giving guidance about several key issues to consider when setting up an HIE to organizations who want to establish a successful initiative. The framework includes information about many of the organizational, security, business, and technical principles
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The Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT (ONC) recently released updates about the interoperability work it recently handed off to the New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) and DirectTrust, the first two recipients of grants under ONC’s Exemplar HIE Governance Program. NYeC is the driving force behind the EHR/HIE Interoperability Work Group (IWG), a
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has created a timeline for eligible hospitals and eligible professionals as part of its effort to align quality measurements across programs in the eHealth Initiative. This effort aims to reduce the burden of multiple quality reporting initiatives. For eligible hospitals, by 2013, hospital value-based purchasing and inpatient
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McKesson recently announced the expanded nationwide roll-out of its McKesson Gives Back program, a philanthropic initiative designed to recognize and reward physician practices that provide unreimbursed healthcare to America’s neediest citizens. Initially launched in November 2012 in select cities, the program is now available to physicians and clinics across the United States to support providers
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Accenture has released survey findings showing most physicians continue to use electronic medical records and health information exchange to integrate health services and improve productivity. The company commissioned Harris Interactive to poll 3,700 physicians from eight countries between November and December 2012 and reported a 32 percent rise in the number of doctors that use
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