News
PORTLAND, OR | Erin McCann | May 10, 2013 | 10:30 AM | Health Information Exchange (HIE), Network Infrastructure, Quality and Safety
Kaiser Permanente Northwest has become the latest member to join the Oregon Health Network, a national rural healthcare pilot program and subsidiary of OCHIN, one of the nation's largest health information networks. More
ARLINGTON, VA | Mike Miliard | May 9, 2013 | 11:07 AM | Meaningful Use, Electronic Health Records, Health Information Exchange (HIE)
The number of U.S. physicians using electronic medical records has topped 90 percent, and nearly half of the doctors polled for a new Accenture survey say they now use health information exchange technology -- an uptick of 32 percent. More
RALEIGH, NC | Erin McCann | May 9, 2013 | 10:56 AM | Privacy and Security
Raleigh Orthopaedic Clinic is notifying 17,300 patients of a data breach after it provided patient X-rays to a third-party vendor, which sold the films to an Ohio-based recycling company that harvested the silver from the X-rays. More
WASHINGTON | Bernie Monegain | May 9, 2013 | 10:26 AM | Quality and Safety, Policy and Legislation
An update to the Hospital Safety Score that assigns grades "A" through "F" to more than 2,500 hospitals in the United States shows they have made only incremental progress in addressing errors, accidents, injuries and infections that kill... More
Jeff Rowe | May 9, 2013 | 10:06 AM | Network Infrastructure, Quality and Safety, Telehealth
In the rural West, neighbors often come in handy. Nowhere is that probably more true than in Wyoming. With a mere 5.8 inhabitants per square mile -- only Alaska is more "open," with 1.2 inhabitants per square mile -- Wyoming has a tradition of... More
AUSTIN, TX | Bernie Monegain | May 9, 2013 | 09:33 AM
Imagine if telemedicine had the same government support that EHRs have garnered. That's the steep and thorny path on which Ryan Spaulding took his audience during a public policy discussion May 8 at the American Telemedicine Association's annual... More
AUSTIN, TX | Mike Miliard | May 8, 2013 | 03:13 PM
The time is right for tele-ICU. The need for more intensive-care beds is acute. The cost of caring for critically ill patients has never been higher. Intensivists are in short supply, and only getting scarcer as the population gets older. More
AUSTIN, TX | Mike Miliard | May 8, 2013 | 03:11 PM
Sarah Pletcher, MD, medical director of the year-old Center for Telehealth at Lebanon, N.H.-based Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, tried for a long time to get a telemedicine program up and running in her rural region: hundreds of "moose-intensive... More
AUSTIN, TX | Eric Wicklund | May 8, 2013 | 03:09 PM
So just how do you measure the ROI in telemedicine? In the final Industry Executive Session Tuesday afternoon at the ATA's 18th Annual International Meeting & Trade Show, even the experts weren't sure. More
AUSTIN, TX | Eric Wicklund | May 8, 2013 | 03:08 PM
More than 120 pieces of legislation were introduced in state legislatures across the country last year that dealt in some way with telehealth. Chances are very few of them defined "telehealth" the same way. More
AUSTIN, TX | Eric Wicklund | May 8, 2013 | 03:05 PM
In a fitting final plenary at the American Telemedicine Association's 18th Annual International Meeting & Trade Show, the former chief of medical affairs for the UnitedHealth Group challenged ATA members to "think about old problems in new ways... More
BOSTON | Erin McCann | May 8, 2013 | 10:15 AM | Electronic Health Records, Financial/Revenue Cycle Management
Larry Garber is a believer. The physician and medical director for informatics at Worcester, Mass.-based Reliant Medical Group has seen electronic health records make big, real life changes both financially and clinically, and now he's set out to spread... More
