Reuters Health article by Genevra Pittman, Nov 25, 2013 Emergency rooms in rural areas don’t see many very sick or badly injured children each year. When they do, bringing in a pediatric critical care specialist by videoconference to help with treatment could …
Tag: compliance
EHR Interoperability Remains Elusive
John Commins, Senior editor, HealthLeaders Media, November 8, 2013 A lack of standards, privacy concerns, and proprietary and competition issues are just a few of the hurdles hampering the interoperability of EHR data among participants in health information exchanges. Healthcare providers have …
3 in 4 Patients Want E-mail Consultations with Doctors
From Health Leaders Media article by Ryan Chiavetta, November 1, 2013 Research reveals a large discrepancy between how parents say they would like to communicate with pediatricians and how they actually do communicate with doctors. Three quarters (77%) of parents said they …
Is your doctor spying on your tweets? Social media raises medical privacy questions
Article by Art Caplan, Ph.D. NBC News, Oct. 21, 2013 A friend recently brought to my attention a disturbing question from a psychiatrist working with a transplant team: Should she be checking the sobriety claims of liver transplant candidates by looking on …
States encounter ObamaCare impostors
Article By Elise Viebeck, TheHill Blog, October 14, 2013 State insurance regulators are encountering sites designed to mimic ObamaCare’s enrollment portal, the online hub where millions of people are meant to purchase healthcare coverage. Attempts at imitating healthcare.gov have met with cease-and-desist …
Struck by Turtle: Anticipating a New Healthcare-Billing System
From article on Atlantic.com by Richard Gunderman dated Sep 30 2013 T minus 12 months and counting until physicians and hospitals must comply with the federal government’s October 1, 2014 deadline to implement the ICD-10 system for classifying diseases. Developed by the …
Health law enrollment in US to see slow start next week
Article on Bloomberg.com By Alex Wayne & Alex Nussbaum – Sep 24, 2013 Enrollment in the Affordable Care Act’s public health exchanges, a key effort to reach people without health insurance, will start slowly, a senior Obama administration official said. While the …
Saving U.S. Health Care With Skype
Lawmakers and proponents of telemedicine have begun exploring how technology can improve the health care system in the wake of Obamacare Article by Maya Rhodan published in Time magazine’s Swampland The University of Virginia Health System is home to a program that …
We need a Moore’s Law for medicine
Technology is the primary cause of our skyrocketing health-care costs. It could also be the cure. Article on TechnologyReview.com by Antonio Regalado, September 3, 2013 Moore’s Law predicts that every two years the cost of computing will fall by half. That is …
States scramble to get healthcare law’s insurance marketplaces up and running
Washington Post article by Sarah Kliff and Sandhya Somashekhar, August 24, 2013 With a key deadline approaching, state officials across the country are scrambling to get the Affordable Care Act’s complex computer systems up and running, reviewing contingency plans and, in some …