There has long been bipartisan agreement that effective national policies must be anchored in rigorous fact-based analysis. However, this commitment to evidence is easier to extol than employ.
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Interviews with Justin Campbell – Justin talks to HIE Executives Paul Brannan, Charles Christian and Todd Rogow about security, sustainability and accessibility of healthcare information.
By Bakul Patel – Imagine an intensive care unit for newborns. An interface on a device called a pulse oximeter is sending data on changes in the newborns’ blood oxygen level to a hospital computer system that simultaneously gathers data from EKGs that are monitoring the electrical activity of their hearts.
By Sabrina Corlette & Kevin Lucia – Among the Trump administration’s first promises was to give states more flexibility and control over their health insurance markets than they had had during the Obama years.
By Sabrina Corlette & Kevin Lucia – Among the Trump administration’s first promises was to give states more flexibility and control over their health insurance…
By Leala M. Williams – Long gone are the days of standalone demographic and paper medical record files in a physician office. A patient’s record is now digital and likely exists in multiple hospitals, physician offices, and other ancillary services across cities, states, and countries.
By Rita Bowen – During the upcoming 2017 AHIMA Convention and Exhibit in Los Angeles, I will be co-presenting with Melissa Landry, RHIA, Assistant Vice President of Health Information Management for Ochsner Health System, in a session titled “Merger Mania: Impact to HIM and Privacy.”
By Keith Boone – I often hear the complaint (about CDA documents) that: I just want to see … At the ONC meeting recently, a provider remarked that in order to understand what was happening for a patient a provider read through 18 hundred pages of CCDA documents.
By Tom Peterson – Several months ago, CMS released the Final 2018 Call Letter, which describes exactly what rules, regulations, and reimbursement Medicare Advantage Organizations will experience in the coming year.