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Archive for February, 2009

Obama Budget: Hospitals Should Warrantee Admissions for 30 Days

Warrantee War`ran*tee"\, noun. A written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications. Today when we buy practically any consumer item we expect a warrantee. What’s the “warrantee” after you are discharged from a hospital? Last September I wrote a post posing the question “What’s the Best Way to Get Hospitals [...]

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Spider Webs of Care Coordination Networks

We have learned that coordinating care of patients — particular care of Medicare patients — is complex and time consuming for physicians. A breakthrough study quantifies just how complex and challenging care coordination really is.  The study is reported in the February 17 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine and is entitled Primary Care Physicians’ Links to Other Physicians Through Medicare [...]

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Why Clinical Groupware May Be the Next Big Thing in Health IT

by David C. Kibbe MD, MBA What would you call health care software that: Is Web-based and networkable, therefore highly scalable and inexpensive to purchase and use; Provides a ‘unified view’ of a patient from multiple sources of data and information; Is designed to be used interactively – by providers and patients alike – to [...]

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