Posts Tagged “HITECH”
ShowHide CommentaryEconomic Impact of HIT
by Kevin Roche on Wednesday, February 27, 2013
There is substantial controversy about the benefits of health information technology and whether those benefits outweigh the costs. A meta-study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association takes a fresh look at this question.
Tags: Health Care Costs, Health Care Quality, HIT, HITECH
Health Information Exchange Status
by Kevin Roche on Thursday, December 20, 2012
The other exchange in health care–health information exchanges–are designed to ensure that all the data whizzing around in all the fancy new electronic medical record systems and other provider and payer systems can be easily shared across the system for clinical and administrative purposes. A new report looks at the status of these exchanges.
Tags: health information exchange, HIT, HITECH
2012 Potpourri XII
by Kevin Roche on Friday, April 6, 2012
An early spring for much of the country and our latest Potpourri is in full bloom, with nuggets on health information exchanges, genetic testing guidelines, an employer survey on reform, EMRs and lab test ordering and the relationship between clinical quality and patient satisfaction.
Tags: Genomics, Health Care Quality, Health Insurance, HIT, HITECH, Patient Satisfaction, 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
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
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