The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) promises to improve care quality and reduce costs through highly individualized chronic care management featuring patient self-management, online interaction among interdisciplinary care team members, proactive monitoring using registry and needs-based care, according to the Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC).
The argument over the right age for women to begin mammograms was pushed to the center of the healthcare reform and technology debate with Monday's release of new guidelines from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
DR Systems will be exhibiting its cloud-based e|HR Meaningful Use for Medical Imaging solution at the 2012 Radiology Summit of the Radiology Business Management Association (RBMA).
Farzad Mostashari, MD, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, has named the winners of a federal search for developers of innovative technology apps to help improve American heart health. The awards were made March 25 at the American College of Cardiology Scientific Conference in Chicago.
To help physician practices navigate health information exchange, HIMSS and the Medical Group Management Association and its standards-setting body, the American College of Medical Practice Executives, have introduced the Ambulatory Health Information Exchange Toolkit for physician practices.
Recently, Alex Knapp wrote a brilliant article entitled "Five Leadership Lessons From James T. Kirk" in Forbes. For those of us who have watched every episode and can recite every line of dialog from memory, these 5 lessons are a great distillation of the series.
To help physician practices navigate health information exchange, HIMSS and the Medical Group Management Association and its standards-setting body, the American College of Medical Practice Executives, have introduced the Ambulatory Health Information Exchange Toolkit for physician practices.
The American College of Cardiology, a 40,000-member nonprofit medical society, has issued a statement supporting the federal government's decision to delay Stage 2 meaningful use.
DR Systems, one of the most respected names in medical imaging information systems (RIS, CVIS, PACS) and the 2011 KLAS® #1 overall ranked PACS vendor, announced today that its cloud-based e|HR Meaningful Use for Medical Imaging solution has received certification as a complete ambulatory Electronic Health Record (EHR) from InfoGard, an Authorized Testing and Certification Body of the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC-ATCB).
Physician professional organizations are offering online teaching aids for clinicians to get up to speed on patient-centered care because it was not taught in medical school.
eClinicalWorks®, a market leader in ambulatory clinical systems, today announced that a recent report published by AmericanEHR Partners, an online community dedicated to supporting adoption, use, and optimization of EHRs, titled Market Share and Top 10 Rated Ambulatory EHR Products by Practice Report, places the company highly in regard to market share for small physician practices and functionality with mid-to-larger size practices.
While the physician community generally supports patients having access to their own laboratory test results as proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services, they are also concerned about being inadvertently left out of the care equation.
Although social networking sites can be useful tools to disseminate healthcare information, some sites fall short of providing patient-centered resources and even provide misleading data, according to two studies that were presented Monday at the American College of Gastroenterology's ACG) 76th Annual Scientific meeting in Washington.
Pay-for-performance (P4P) does not result in providers cherry-picking patients, nor does it cause a negative impact on patient outcomes, according to a new study.
The American College of Physicians, which represents 132,000 internal medicine specialists, is proposing a privacy rule that says researchers should maximize appropriate uses of information to achieve scientific advances without compromising ethical obligations to protect individual welfare and privacy.
DR Systems, one of the most respected names in healthcare information systems, will be exhibiting its MU Imaging EHR -- a complete, cloud-based, imaging-centric ambulatory electronic health record -- at RSNA 2011.
Two surgeons from the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences are touting the benefits of social media to their colleagues as a way to disseminate accurate information to their trainees and patients.
Medical associations, health systems and research institutions wanting to improve how they interact with their members are increasingly turning to social media. But unlike other industries, healthcare hasn't been able to reap the benefit this type of collaboration can provide, says one expert.
Radiology groups and imaging centers have been on the leading technology edge for many years. The leadership principles of radiology CEOs and CIOs shine in how they approach.
Integration with a picture archiving and communication system (PACS) improves radiologists' use of clinical decision support tools, according to a study in the July issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
