A new research study found that Electronic Health Record (EHR) implementation can result in reduced patient volume but can increase revenue over the long term. Published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, the study found that practices’ reimbursements increased “significantly,” even as their number of patient visits declined. For the study, researchers from Drexel University compared
Interactive Patient Care (IPC) solutions, are playing a big role in today’s health care. After enrolling in their provider’s patient portal, patients can access personalized education, medication information and chronic condition management resources at home via their own mobile device or PC. Patients can update their progress and record milestones in their personal health journal, while notifications,
A comparative analysis of how four high-income nations—Australia, Canada, Denmark, and the United States—are using health information and communications technologies (ICTs) to manage care for chronically ill patients identified four key themes: 1) National strategies are implemented and adapted on a regional level. 2) Each country struggles to ensure that patients’ clinical information is transmitted from
A new research study, published in a recent issue of Health Affairs, analyzed the implementation of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems in hospitals since the enactment of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH). The study discovered that the number of hospitals that have implemented a basic or extensive EHR system has increased steadily since 2010 but few
Expiration dates on over-the-counter and prescription drugs are there for a reason and provide a simple message: do not take the medication after the stamped date. Although that is the rule of thumb, there are several factors that may allow one to take certain “expired” medications. Sharon Bergquist, assistant professor of medicine at Emory University in
ICD-10, the new code set to be used for report medical diagnoses and inpatient procedures, has now been given a finalized deadline. The announcement came on the back of an earlier debate concerning the delay of ICD-10 to at least 2015. Providers, payers and clearinghouses will need to comply with ICD-10 by October 2015, as
The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released an account of how the Centers of Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) failed in its task of setting up Healthcare.gov. The blame? Agile development, the popular methodology for software development. The GAO report said that CMS had allowed contractors to use agile development, despite the CMS’s lack of
One Federal Trade Commission (FTC) commissioner, Julie Brill, has voiced heavy concerns for the collection and utilization of health data on apps. Brill feels the need for heavy restrictions, highlighting privacy concerns as with the infamous Target of a pregnant teen. (The company sent coupons for maternity products to the teen’s father, who had been
The White House has released its solicitation for a firm to promptly upgrade Healthcare.gov’s and keep it running. The health insurance exchange made a poor showing at launch. Heavy traffic crippled the site accessibility and it soon became a contention for politics. The site has also drawn comparisons and worry about its viability next to eHealthInsurance,
Everyone may be fawning over fitness apps, but the clincher among health apps in the past year, for venture firms, were clearly those focused on women’s health. Crunchbase cited reproductive health as a percentage over total mobile health apps – the trend has been on the rise, with reproductive health accounting for $70 million of the
