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So Hows That EHR Incentive Program Working Out?
by Kevin Roche on Monday, April 16, 2012
A Medicare Payment Advisory Commission report summarizes the federal incentive program for adoption and meaningful use of electronic health records and reports on progress, which appears to be very slow.
2011 Potpourri XXXVIII
by Kevin Roche on Friday, September 30, 2011
We enter the year’s home stretch with a great Potpourri, focusing on comparison friction in Part D plan shopping, a Harris poll on health-related internet use, the effect of aging populations on health costs, creation of a data repository by major insurers, Mercer’s survey of employers on 2012 expected health benefit costs and AHRQ’s site on unintended EHR consequences.
Tags: Consumers, Drugs, EHRs, Health Care Costs, HIT
2011 Potpourri XXXVII
by Kevin Roche on Friday, September 23, 2011
Another wonderful collection of health care research summaries, including a GAO report on likely effects of the MLR rule, physician work intensity, reducing hospital-acquired infections, discharge followup and hospital readmissions, the effect of pay-for-performance on cardiac care and use of EHRs and health history recording.
Tags: EHRs, HAI, Health Care Reform, HIT, Hospital, MLR, Pay For Performance, Physicians, Readmissions
EHRs and Diabetes Care
by Kevin Roche on Monday, September 19, 2011
New research provides stronger evidence that using electronic health records may improve quality of care according to some measures more than continuing to use paper medical records, at least for diabetes patients.
Tags: EHRs, Health Care Quality, HIT
2011 Potpourri XXXIII
by Kevin Roche on Friday, August 26, 2011
Summer begins to wane but our Potpourri remains hot, with items on large employers benefit intentions for 2012, Australia’s project to create a unified patient medical record, hospital collections at the point-of-service, physician compensation, trends in per capita medical costs and how to avoid issues in accountable care organizations.
Tags: ACO, EHRs, Health Care Costs, HIT, Physicians, Workplace
2011 Potpourri XXX
by Kevin Roche on Friday, August 5, 2011
This week’s Potpourri features dropped malpractice claims, the quality benefits of EHRs, improper Medicare payments, health insurer customer satisfaction, the utilization and cost effects of using hospitalists, and determining if a patient has decision-making capacity.
Tags: Consumers, EHRs, Health Care Costs, Health Care Quality, Health Insurance, HITECH, Hospital, Malpractice, Medicare, Physicians
2011 Potpourri XXIX
by Kevin Roche on Friday, July 29, 2011
Our current Potpourri contains nuggets on use of robotic surgery for prostate cancer, the effect of mandated rebates in Medicare Part D on patient costs, FDA guidance on device modifications, state Medicaid EHR incentive programs, patient understanding of trial data, and use of FQHC’s by Medicaid enrollees.
Tags: Devices, Drugs, EHRs, FDA, HIT, HITECH, Medicaid, Medical Care, Medicare
2011 Potpourri XXVII
by Kevin Roche on Friday, July 15, 2011
A mid-summer’s evening (or weekend) Potpourri, but no heated discussion here, just soothing nuggets of knowledge, including use and misuse of PCI, how to measure blood pressure, CMS and telemedicine, preventing falls, copying and pasting EHR notes, and physicians attitude to work and compensation.
Tags: EHRs, Health Care Costs, Health Care Quality, Medical Care, Medicare, Physicians, Telemedicine
2011 Potpourri XXIV
by Kevin Roche on Friday, June 17, 2011
The week’s Potpourri continues the tradition of presenting excellent nuggets of health information, including EHR use in the VA system, the effect of making surrogate care decisions, screening for ovarian cancer, gaps in health among socioeconomic groups, cancer care guideline compliance, and ER visits in Massachusetts.
Tags: Care Management, EHRs, Elder Care, End-of-Life Care, Health Care Costs, Health Care Reform, HIT, Wellness and Prevention
The British EHR Experience
by Kevin Roche on Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Great Britain’s electronic health records project is severely off schedule and off budget. The problems of that project, however, are not necessarily likely to be replicated in America’s push to get more IT in health care.
2011 Potpourri XX
by Kevin Roche on Friday, May 13, 2011
Another Potpourri, this week delivering factoids on drug companies’ use of technology to reach physicians, waiting times in Massachusetts, use of atypical antipsychotics in nursing homes, unnecessary colonoscopies, EMRs and productivity, and a stupid FDA ruling.
Tags: Drugs, EHRs, Health Care Costs, Health Care Reform, HIT, Medicare, Physicians, Wellness and Prevention
2011 Potpourri XV
by Kevin Roche on Friday, April 8, 2011
Our Masters week Potpourri masterfully covers such items as EHR satisfaction, ICU telemedicine, effects of concierge care on Medicare, failure to fill prescriptions, percent of household spending on health care by seniors, and drug rep visits to physicians.
Tags: Drugs, EHRs, Health Care Costs, Health Care Quality, HIT, Medicare, Physicians, Telemedicine
Costs for a Physician Practice to Implement EHR
by Kevin Roche on Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Research published in Health Affairs examines the real-life costs of implementing an EHR system in a primary care practice setting, finding that while costs are significant, they may be largely covered by potential incentive payments.
Tags: EHRs, HIT, HITECH, Physicians
2011 Potpourri IX
by Kevin Roche on Friday, February 25, 2011
A positively presidential set of health care data points for your edification in today’s Potpourri, including examining correlations between hospital volume, quality and costs, improving quality program adherence, creating good insurance markets, the physician gender pay gap, the effects of the health reform law, and potential inconsistencies in HHS’ HIT incentive programs.
Tags: EHRs, Government, Health Care Quality, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, HIT, HITECH, Hospital, Physicians
Evaluating the Benefits of EHRs
by Kevin Roche on Tuesday, February 8, 2011
An extensive review published in the Public Library of Science evaluates the evidence for health care safety and quality benefits from electronic health records, finding that there is a significant gap between what is claimed and what has been demonstrated.
Tags: EHRs, Health Care Quality, HIT
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