. . . by Nate DiNiro HealthCamp Oregon is organizing 2 events during the 3rd week of October in Portland, Oregon. The events will focus on Healthcare, Health IT, the ePatient & Participatory Medicine movement and all-things Healthcare Transformation! The first event, a panel that will focus on the impact of [...]
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The PCAST Report on Health IT has become a political piñata. Early Feedback on PCAST Like many of my colleagues, I was taken aback by the release of the Report in early December 2010 — I didn’t know quite what to make of it. Response in the first week of release was: Limited. The first commentaries were primarily by technical and/or clinical [...]
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Medicare has (finally) recently released a report showing home run results for a disease/care management demonstration project! Evaluation of Medicare Care Management for High Cost Beneficiaries (CMHCB) Demonstration: Massachusetts General Hospital and Massachusetts General Physicians Organization (MGH) Remind Me Again About the CMHCB Medicare Demo… The CMHCB started in 2005. My recollection is that the [...]
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Posted by Vince Kuraitis on
November 24, 2010 ·
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This post was written by Alexandra Drane and the Engage With Grace team. To learn more please go to www.engagewithgrace.org. For three years running now, many of us bloggers have participated in what we’ve called a “blog rally” to promote Engage With Grace – a movement aimed at making sure all of us understand, communicate, [...]
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Mike Miliard did a great job in capturing highlights and key points of my presentation at the Mobile Health Expo conference earlier this week. You can read his story here. Please write me at vincek@bhtinfo.com in you’d like a copy of the PowerPoint presentation. Update: Neil Versel of FierceEMR also wrote up the presentation. Here’s a link [...]
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Posted by Vince Kuraitis on
August 29, 2010 ·
Filed in EHRs/PHRs
CLICK HERE FOR THE CONFERENCE WEBSITE Healthcare providers face critical choices in selecting and implementing Electronic Health Records (EHRs). In addition, physicians and hospitals will need to develop the capacity to exchange clinical information in order to meet Meaningful Use requirements. This program will offer detailed and practical information on EHR selection and implementation, as [...]
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by Vince Kuraitis JD, MBA and David C. Kibbe MD, MBA Most of the press coverage and attention to HITECH has been to the “buy” side of the market: The central question here has been: “Will doctors and hospitals buy and use EHR technology?” Meanwhile — and much more quietly — the sell (vendor) side of the [...]
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(click on any of the above graphics to be linked to the orginal source) by Vince Kuraitis JD, MBA and David C. Kibbe MD, MBA In the previous post in this series on “Is HITECH Working?”, we straightforwardly noted that hospitals are playing in the HITECH game. The issue of whether physicians will play is MUCH [...]
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“Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.” Albert Einstein by Vince Kuraitis JD, MBA and David C. Kibbe MD, MBA If you’re like many folks we talk with, you understand the importance of the HITECH Act legislation — yet feel overwhelmed by the complexity and details. This series of blog posts is for [...]
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